Archive des actualités – Evénements
Anniversary Symposium of RISM Germany
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of RISM’s German working group, a symposium will be held on November 21 and 22 at the Bavarian State Library in Munich. The event bears the title “Musical Sources of the 19th Century in Germany: Challenges and Opportunities” and offers...
19 October 2023
MEC-TEI Joint Conference: Encoding Cultures
The joint conference of the Music Encoding Conference and the Text Encoding Initiative met from 4-8 September 2023 in Paderborn, Germany. The theme was “Encoding Cultures” and the week was full of workshops, papers, posters, meetings, and discussions. It was a hybrid conference with some presenters and participants joining us...
5 October 2023
Commemorating Archangel Michael
Whereas the Eastern Orthodox churches commemorate Archangel Michael on November 8, in the West his feast is celebrated on 29 September. St. Michael has a prominent position among the angels in heaven. The prefix “arch” is derived from the Greek ἀρχή (archē) and means as much as beginning or leadership,...
28 September 2023
Two RISM Sessions at MedRen 2023
In the field of musicology, Europe’s largest annual conference has for some time been the International Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, which is held in a different location each year. The conference once again returns to Germany after last being held here twenty years ago in Jena in 2003. MedRen...
18 July 2023
RISM at the 2023 IAML Congress in Cambridge, England
This year’s annual IAML Congress will take place in Cambridge, England and will mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the IAML UK and Ireland branch. Please look at the IAML Cambridge page on our website for the RISM events during the week: a RISM session, meetings of the...
13 July 2023
Muscat Cataloging Workshop in Krakow
A Muscat workshop led by Guido Kraus from the RISM Editorial Center took place from 13 to 15 June 2023 at the Chopin Institute in Krakow’s historic Old Town. A total of 16 people from different regions of Poland participated, many of them from Krakow. The workshop was held in...
6 July 2023
Il Simposio Fuentes para la investigación musical
From 7 to 9 June 2023, the Mexican organization Apoyo al Desarrollo de Archivos y Bibliotecas de México (Support for the Development of Mexican Archives and Libraries, ADABI) sponsored a three-day online symposium on sources for music research, Il Simposio Fuentes para la investigación musical. The symposium was organized by...
28 June 2023
RILM’s Global Digital Music Studies Conference in New York
In April 2023, RILM hosted a two-day conference in New York in honor of Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie’s career as the organization’s long-time director. The Global Digital Music Studies Conference aimed to “inspire new models for generating and disseminating musical knowledge with digital technologies that have the potential to engage and...
19 May 2023
Coronation Music
The coronation of Charles III will take place this Saturday in London’s Westminster Abbey. Music will of course play an especially important role. Traditionally, music at coronations is a combination of choral and orchestral pieces, and there is a mix of traditional and newer works. For nearly 300 years, Georg...
4 May 2023
Call for Papers: Out of the Box! From Archives to Music History
The following was originally published on H-Soz-Kult and is shared here with kind permission: We welcome interdisciplinary submissions for the symposium “Out of the Box! From Archives to Music History”, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, November 9–11, 2023. Whether metaphor or an actual site, academic resource, or instrument...
20 April 2023
