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Five chant databases

The new issue of the Journal of the American Musicological Society has reviews of five chant databases: • Cantus Planus Regensburg • Corpus Antiphonalium Officii-Ecclesiae Centralis Europae • CANTUS: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant • Global Chant Database • The CANTUS Index Link to article: Alison Altstatt, Journal of...

3 June 2014 – Ressources en ligne

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RISM and the R Projects

RISM is currently prominently featured on the website of the Music Library Association (United States). It appears alongside its sister projects: • Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) International Repertory of Musical Literature • Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM) International Repertory of Musical Iconography • Répertoire International de la Presse...

2 June 2014 – Nouveau au RISM

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Wagner exhibit in Bamberg

The latest edition of the Bibliotheksforum Bayern has a wonderfully illustrated article about last year’s exhibition about Richard Wagner at the Staatsbibliothek Bamberg (D-BAs). The library marked the occasion of both the 200th anniversary of Wagner’s birth and the 130th anniversary of his death with displays of rare music materials,...

30 May 2014 – Collections de bibliothèques

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Listen to the world's oldest piano

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: “Dongsok Shin performs the Sonata in d minor, K.9 by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) on the earliest known surviving piano, made by the instrument’s inventor, Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731), in Florence, 1720. Scarlatti’s keyboard compositions were performed on both the harpsichord and the...

28 May 2014 – Redécourvertes

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Minna Brandes

Today, the letter B stands for Minna Brandes (1765-1788), a German composer and singer whose compositions attracted attention mainly because she died so young. She was born in Berlin to a theatrical family and died only 23 years later in Hamburg. As a singer, actress, and fortepianist, she was well...

27 May 2014 – RISM A-Z

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CFPs: Upcoming Conferences

Attention musicologists and performers! Three conferences of interest have reached us via the AMS: 1st International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop (DLfM 2014) Incorporating the Transforming Musicology Challenge 12th September 2014 (full day), London, UK in conjunction with the ACM/IEEE Digital Libraries conference 2014 Paper submission deadline: 27th June 2014...

25 May 2014 – A la une

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New Coordinating Committee Elected

National RISM working groups as well as individuals and institutions that contribute to RISM projects can engage with the work of the RISM Zentralredaktion and strategic decisions of the board in a variety of ways. In order to formalize this participation, an Advisory Council is formed. Five representatives are elected...

22 May 2014 – Nouveau au RISM

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RISM and Big Data

The following article has been adapted, with kind permission, from the British Library Music Blog: The British Library and Royal Holloway, University of London (partner institutions for RISM United Kingdom) have announced that they have received a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for just over £79,000...

28 April 2014 – Collections de bibliothèques

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Légende norvégienne: Unknown work by the Belgian violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe at the Royal Library of Belgium

The music collections of the Royal Library of Belgium (B-Br) have been recently enlarged by a previously unknown work by the Belgian violin virtuoso Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931), entitled Légende norvégienne, thanks to the acquisition of the autograph score version. In the spring of 1882, Eugène Ysaÿe toured in Norway. During...

11 April 2014 – Redécourvertes

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New Version of the RISM Online Catalog

RISM would like to announce the release of a new version of the online catalog. The content is the same, but there is a new interface with features that will make it easier to find musical sources. New features include: • Search for digitized music Autocomplete in the search boxes...

10 April 2014 – Catalogue RISM en ligne

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