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Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785)
The 2014/2015 opera and theater season is wrapping up, so let’s take the opportunity to combine our series RISM A–Z with a current production. On June 20, the opera Alessandro nell’Indie by Baldassare Galuppi (libretto by Pietro Metastasio) premiered at the Mainfranken-Theater in Würzburg. The last performance is tomorrow, July...
13 July 2015 – RISM A-Z
Two New Countries in RISM: Andorra (AND) and Indonesia (RI)
The siglum database continues to grow! Thanks to requests made by researchers, we have added two new countries: Andorra and Indonesia. AND-AVan: Arxiu Nacional d’Andorra, Andorra la Vella, Andorra AND-AVbn: Biblioteca Nacional d’Andorra, Andorra la Vella, Andorra RI-Duufs: Universitas Udayana, Fakultas Sastra, Denpasar, Indonesia RI-Jpn: Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia, Jakarta,...
9 July 2015 – Nouveau au RISM
American Vernacular Music Manuscripts
We received the following announcement from AMS-Announce: Center for Popular Music Launches American Music Manuscripts Website The Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University announces the launch of its American Vernacular Music Manuscripts (AVMM) website. Built as part of a three-year project funded by the National Endowment for...
6 July 2015 – Ressources en ligne
No siglum? No problem!
From time to time we come across articles, dissertations, or databases with a list of sigla that includes a phrase such as “the following sigla, not in RISM, were derived for this project.” There’s a better way! We’ll make one for you! If you need a siglum for your research...
2 July 2015 – Nouveau au RISM
Sofia Gubaidulina
Today’s installment of the series RISM A–Z takes a look at Sofia Gubaidulina, a Russian composer born in 1931. Wait, a living composer in RISM? Yes! While RISM has traditionally maintained an emphasis on music manuscripts dating from between 1600 and 1800, the unique configuration of individual national working groups...
29 June 2015 – RISM A-Z
Polish Week, Part 3: Using the RISM Online Catalog's Filters with Monastic Collections
At the conference Klasztor i muzyka / Monasteries and Music, which we described in this space on Wednesday, our coworker Guido Kraus gave a paper entitled “Historical music sources of cloister holdings from different orders in German speaking countries. Repertories in comparison,” touching on musicological methods, statistics, geographical considerations, and...
26 June 2015 – Evénements
Polish Week, Part II: The Klasztor i muzyka / Monasteries and Music conference in Częstochowa
Our coworker Guido Kraus attended the international conference Klasztor i muzyka / Monasteries and Music from May 5 to 8, 2015 at the Jasna Góra monastery. The conference was sponsored by the Polish research project Hereditas Monasteriorum, which we reported on in this space on Monday. The conference was organized...
24 June 2015 – Evénements
Polish Week, Part I: Music as Part of Monastic Heritage in Poland
It’s Polish Week at RISM! In a series of three posts, Guido Kraus will share his experiences at a recent conference he attended in Poland. He starts with the Hereditas Monasteriorum research project. The research project Hereditas Monasteriorum, initiated by Polish historians, deals with the special history of monasteries in...
22 June 2015 – Nouveau au RISM
RISM at the Music Encoding Conference, Florence, Italy
I (Jennifer Ward) attended the Music Encoding Conference in Florence, Italy, from 18-20 May 2015. The full program included 19 presentations and 11 poster sessions. The Music Encoding Conference was organized by the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI), a scholarly community whose main project is creating musical documents that are machine-readable....
17 June 2015 – Evénements
IMS/IAML Congress in New York, June 2015
Start spreading the news: RISM will be heading to New York to take part in the IMS/IAML Congress Music Research in the Digital Age, June 21-26, 2015. Please visit our table in the exhibits area during the breaks. In addition, you are invited to join us at the following events:...
15 June 2015 – Evénements
