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Musikverlagswiki: A Source for Dating Printed Music
Recently we told you about current bibliographic projects about Mozart and Clementi, which we learned about during this year’s IAML Congress in Leipzig. Today we’re sharing information about another resource we heard about in detail, from Sabine Koch (Leipzig University of Applied Sciences): the Musikverlagswiki (Music Publishers Wiki). We all...
11 October 2018 – Ressources en ligne
Many Qs
Normally in our series RISM A–Z we focus on just one person at a time. Since there is little information about the only woman composer in RISM whose last name begins with Q (Lucia Quiciani), we will throw the spotlight on several women: The Italian composer Lucia Quiciani was a...
8 October 2018 – RISM A-Z
Muscat Workshops in October 2018
RISM will be holding more Muscat workshops this week and next. Printed music will be at the focus of a Muscat workshop for the first time that will be held from 4–6 October 2018 in the RISM Central Office in Frankfurt. In total, 14 people from Germany and abroad have...
1 October 2018 – Evénements
Un site web dédié au projet Muscat
Chaque groupe de travail du RISM connaît Muscat - c’est l’interface familière avec laquelle les collaborateurs cataloguent les sources musicales dans la base de données du RISM depuis 2016. Mais quelle est l’histoire et la philosophie de ce projet ? Quels sont ses composantes techniques ? Qu’offre-t-il ? En réalité,...
27 September 2018 – RISM Digital Center
New Sources from the Archivo Musical del Colegio de Vizcaínas (Mexico)
We have received the following announcement from John Lazos (RISM Mexico/Canada). English follows. Dr. Lazos está listo para continuar con su segunda visita al Archivo Musical del Colegio de Vizcaínas. Son mas de 200 nuevas entradas de este archivo (MEX-Mahn) que se pueden consultar en la base de datos de...
24 September 2018 – Collections de bibliothèques
Current Mozart and Clementi Projects
The high point of every summer for RISM is the annual IAML congress, which as you may know was in Leipzig this year (you can read our reflections on the congress). One session in particular sponsored by the IAML Bibliography Section focused on three current bibliographic projects that are sure...
20 September 2018 – A la une
RISM—500 Years Ago
The year 1518 was in many respects shaped by important events, and particularly people, that you can find the RISM catalog relatively frequently. To name just two examples: In 1518, Martin Luther refused to revoke his 95 theses and the later Lutheran reformer Philipp Melanchthon held his inaugural speech as...
17 September 2018 – Anniversaires
A Bilingual Chart of Common Chinese Instrument Names
The following post is by TSENG Tzu-Chia from the RISM working group Chinese Language Region: 2018/08 RISM-CLR Completed the Paper Presentation in 2018 IAML Annual Conference and Presented the “Bilingual Chart of Common Chinese Instrument Names” The 2018 IAML annual conference was held in Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix...
10 September 2018 – Nouveautés
Romantic satire, "With Music."
The following was written by Charlotte Köhler, our intern from summer 2018: At the end of the 18th century, the first thinkers of the German Romantic era—in particular the group centered in Jena around the brothers August Wilhelm (1767-1845) and Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829)—developed the idea of a “universal poetry,” meaning...
6 September 2018 – Nouveau au RISM
Adriano Banchieri at 450
Tommaso Banchieri (1568-1624) is known today as having the first name Adriano, which he adopted in 1589 when he entered the Benedictine order, or more precisely the Olivetan order. He also used the pseudonyms Attabalibba dal Perù, Camillo Scaligeri della Fratta, and Il Dissonante. Banchieri was active as an organist...
3 September 2018 – Anniversaires
