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Celebrating 1,000 Facebook Fans!
Today RISM reached a new milestone: 1,000 Facebook fans! Thank you to everyone who has liked the RISM Facebook page! Where are our fans from? The top 10 countries are: Italy Grazie! Portugal Obrigada! Germany Danke! United States Thanks! France Merci! Spain !Gracias! Poland Dziękuję! United Kingdom Cheers! Netherlands Bedankt!...
6 June 2014 – Nouveau au RISM
Blog roundup
Manuscripts, modern editions, and eighteenth-century printed music–RISM likes it all. Read on for what has caught our attention recently: • Trouvère songs online New additions to Digitised Manuscripts at the British Library Egerton MS 274 is now online (see photo, left, taken from f.27v), “a little anthology written in the...
5 June 2014 – Nouveautés
Carlo Broschi (Farinelli)
Carlo Broschi (1705-1782), known to most people as Farinelli, was the celebrated Italian castrato who was widely admired all across Europe. RISM has around 150 sources mentioning him as a singer, including arias, operas, duets, and a cantata. Farinelli also composed a little: there are nine pieces attributed him in...
4 June 2014 – RISM A-Z
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
