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Poetry of the Seventeenth Century in Music
This post is by Clotilde Angleys (Département de la Musique) and originally appeared on the Gallica blog of the Bibliotheque national de France. It is reproduced here in accordance with their Creative Commons policy. The 37 Livres d’airs de différents auteurs issued by the music publishers Robert and Christophe Ballard...
17 September 2015 – Collections de bibliothèques
RISM and the "R"s in Mexico
The Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Musical (CENIDIM) and the Conservatorio de las Rosas in Mexico have organized an international meeting for music and performing arts, the Encuentro Internacional de Investigación y Documentación de la Música y las Artes Escénicas, from 17 to 19 September 2015. Participants will...
14 September 2015 – Evénements
30 Johann Bachs, or searching for "unclear" composers
Back in March we showed you in this space how to link to RISM searches in the online catalog. In most cases, this works without a hitch - you can even use pseudonyms or other forms of the name, as long as they are entered as variants in RISM. Here’s...
10 September 2015 – Catalogue RISM en ligne
Digitized Opera Scores at the German Historical Institute in Rome
We have received this report from Roland Pfeiffer: Digitization of around 180 opera scores from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has recently been completed as part of one of the multi-year research projects financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and led by Dr. Roland Pfeiffer at the Department...
7 September 2015 – Collections de bibliothèques
RISM at the International Museum Forum in Kazan, Russia
Klaus Keil from the RISM Central Office is invited to participate in the International Museum Forum in Kazan, Russia from September 8 to 11, 2015. This conference is being organized by the Ministry for Culture of the Russian Federation, the Ministry for Culture of the Tatarstan Republic, and ICOM Russia...
3 September 2015 – Evénements
Announcing a New RISM Working Group in Poznań, Poland
A new RISM working group was founded this past June at the Institute for Musicology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Under the direction of Dr. habil. Alina Mądry and with the support of Dr. habil. Magdalena Walter-Mazur, the new RISM group in Poznań will work with interested...
31 August 2015 – Nouveau au RISM
Giuseppe Corsi: New Catalog of Works Cited in RISM
Each year, numerous scholarly books, editions, and catalogs of works are published. Many foreign prints or publications from smaller publishers are not acquired by libraries. Not every publication gets the recognition that it really deserves. Which made us all the more happy to receive a book tip from Giovanni Tribuzio,...
27 August 2015 – Nouveautés
The Start of Bohemian Watermark Research in the RISM Working Group in Prague (National Library of the Czech Republic)
This report has come to us from Eliška Šedivá, RISM Czech Republic: A year ago we started to develop a proper and systematic method for researching watermarks as an important indication of the provenance and time determination of musical sources. Furthermore, we believe that correct watermark description and identification can...
24 August 2015 – Nouveau au RISM
RISM at IAML: Access to Music Archives and an Update of RISM Series C
The RISM Central Office is working closely with IAML’s Working Group on the Access to Music Archives to update RISM’s series C, Directory of Music Research Libraries.Series C is a project that began in the 1960s and has resulted in five published volumes so far. An update of this resource...
20 August 2015 – Evénements
RISM at the IAML/IMS Congress in New York
Klaus Keil and Jennifer Ward from the RISM Zentralredaktion and Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, the president of the Association, attended the IAML/IMS Congress in New York from June 21 to 26, 2015. We were happy to see our colleagues from around the world and hear about their projects. The theme of this...
17 August 2015 – Evénements
