Archive des actualités – Evénements
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
International Tuba Day on 1 May
Tomorrow, the first Friday in May, is International Tuba Day! This day recognizes “tubists in musical organizations around the world who have to go through the hassle of handling a tuba,” according to the official website. One of the most famous works for tuba is Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Concerto for...
30 April 2015
RISM Colloquium and Open House
We’re in our fourth month at our new office, and it’s time to celebrate! Join us April 23-24 for our RISM colloquium and open house. The colloquium will feature reports from working groups. Our colleagues from Austria, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Poland, South Korea, and the United Kingdom...
20 April 2015
Opera premieres from Vienna to Paris
Two rarely-heard operas are enjoying premieres now - and there are interesting sources for both in RISM. Performances of Gli uccellatori (The Birdcatchers) by Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729-1774) started yesterday at the Theater an der Wien. There are three sources for the overture in the RISM online catalog, two in...
23 March 2015
