Archive des actualités – Nouveautés
The 2017 Annual Report
The annual report for the RISM Central Office has been published on our website. Here are some of the highlights: Total records: Thanks to the hard work of our international contributors, the RISM online catalog currently has 1,090,000 records. Contributions from national groups: The following national groups created new records...
26 February 2018
Pietro Nardini Thematic Catalog
New on our bookshelves is a thematic catalog for Pietro Nardini: Federico Marri and Marie Rouquié, Pietro Nardini (1722-1793) da Livorno all’Europa: Catalogo tematico delle opere (Treviso: Diastema 2017). 764 p., ISBN 978-88-96988-46-6. Composer and violinist Pietro Nardini (12 April 1722, Livorno – 7 May 1793, Florence) was the most...
28 August 2017
New RISM Brochure Available in Portuguese
RISM is pleased to announce that the brochure “RISM: An Overview” is now available in an English-Portuguese version entitled “RISM: Uma visão Geral.” It can be downloaded from the RISM website. We would like to thank Beatriz Magalhães Castro (RISM Brazil) and Sílvia Sequeira (RISM Portugal) for translating the brochure...
3 August 2017
The 2016 Annual Report
We have just published the 2016 annual report on our website, available here. Here we’ll give you the highlights from the report. The release of Muscat was without a doubt the major accomplishment of the year, so we’ll begin with that… Muscat!: Our new, platform-independent cataloging program called Muscat was...
27 March 2017
The Rokycany Music Collection. A Catalogue of Franco-Netherlandish Sacred Works Preserved in the Oldest Layer of the Repertoire
We have received the following announcement from Katerina Mayrova from the National Museum in Prague (CZ-Pnm): Kateřina Maýrová, Stephanie P. Schlagel, Hana Hrachová. Rokycanská hudební sbírka. Katalog franko-nizozemských duchovních skladeb dochovaných v nejstarší vrstvě repertoáru - The Rokycany Music Collection. A Catalogue of Franco-Netherlandish Sacred Works Preserved in the Oldest...
9 February 2017
The Thematic Catalogue of the Music Collection in the Premonstratensian Monastery in Želiv
We have received the following publication announcement from Eliška Šedivá (RISM Czech Republic): Pavla Semerádová and Eliška Šedivá. Catalogus collectionis operum artis musicae de Monasterii Siloensis. Catalogus artis musicae in Bohemia et Moravia cultae. Artis musicae antiquioris catalogorum 9/1-2. Prague: Národní knihovna České republiky, 2016. 2 vols. 660p. ISBN 978-80-7050-664-6....
23 January 2017
New RISM Brochure in Spanish Now Available
RISM is pleased to announce that the brochure “RISM: An Overview” is now available in an English-Spanish version entitled “RISM: Presentación general.” It can be downloaded from the RISM website. If you want professionally printed copies of the brochure, also at no charge, please contact us: contact@rism.info. Let us know...
8 December 2016
New Volume in Series B Published: Trio sonatas
The newest volume in RISM’s Series B has just been published: Ludwig Finscher, Laurenz Lütteken, Inga Mai Groote, eds., Die Triosonate. Catalogue Raisonné der gedruckten Quellen. RISM B/XVII. Munich: Henle, 2016. ISBN 978-3-87328-156-1 For one of the best-loved chamber music genres of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries – the trio...
2 December 2016
New Music Edition Series founded at Wilhering Abbey in Upper Austria: Matthias Pernsteiner, Missa posta in musica, edited by Ikarus Kaiser
The following guest post is by our colleague Ikarus Kaiser of RISM Austria: Recently the new music edition series “Sacred Music in Wilhering Abbey” was founded. It is focused on the music tradition of the Upper Austrian Cistercian abbey Wilhering and its large music collection. Ikarus Kaiser, titular organist since...
24 October 2016
RISM Data, Big Data
The RISM online catalog currently contains over 1,052,000 records. When you count these along with 101,000 authority files for people, 63,000 for institutions, and 32,000 for secondary literature, that’s a lot of data! All of it is freely available as linked open data under a Creative Commons license, but what...
8 September 2016
