News archive
Transcripts of Dramatic Musical Works in Full Score at the Library of Congress
We have received news of a new research portal at the Library of Congress from Susan Clermont (Music Division): A bibliography of over 600 transcripts of dramatic musical works in full score copied from original music manuscripts and early imprints for the Library of Congress’s Music Division between 1903 and...
23 February 2023 – Library collections
The Musical Public Domain in 2023
Every year, the public domain grows, enriching the pool of works that can be drawn upon to inspire creativity. In law, the “public domain” refers to works without copyright, usually because copyright has expired. In the European Union, the works of people who died in 1952 are now in the...
14 February 2023 – In the news
Tomás Vicente Tosca and the renewal of music in the 18th century
Antonio Ezquerro Esteban (ed.), Tomás Vicente Tosca y la renovación musical en el siglo XVIII, Universidad de Barcelona (2022), 392 p., ISBN: 978-84-9168-701-6. We are delighted to share with the entire RISM community the news about the re-publication of an 18th-century Spanish music treatise. The restrictions we all had to...
6 February 2023 – New publications
Best Paper Award to Luiz Mantovani for his article on a guitar sonata by Ferdinand Rebay
We have received the following from P. MMag. Roman Nägele OCist, head of the music archives of Heiligenkreuz Abbey: About a year ago, in January 2021, the Brazilian guitarist Luiz Mantovani visited Heiligenkreuz Abbey to prepare the first recording of Ferdinand Rebay’s Guitar Sonata No. 2 in E major; an...
30 January 2023 – Library collections
Looking back on 2022
As in past years, we are using the beginning of a new year to take stock of the previous year and share what was most popular with our website readers. These are the year’s blog posts that were read the most often, according to our website statistics: The Musical Public...
24 January 2023 – Events
Call for Papers: Musical Sources of the 19th Century in Germany: Challenges and Opportunities
In celebration of the 70-year anniversary of the establishment of the German RISM working group, on 21 November 2023 a single-day symposium will be held in the Bavarian State Library in Munich. We are pleased to reprint here the full Call for Proposals: The first German working group of RISM...
18 January 2023 – Events
Musical Anniversaries in 2023
Happy New Year! As in past years, we are using the beginning of the year to look at significant anniversaries of birth or death for people found in RISM. We are listing not only our RISM composers, but also librettists, performers, dedicatees, or other people who are connected to a...
9 January 2023 – Musical anniversaries
Happy Holidays 2022!
The RISM Editorial Center wishes you all the best for a festive holiday season, fittingly with a historical document: an early (1863) edition of “Silent Night,” John Freeman Young’s English translation of Joseph Mohr’s “Stille Nacht” as set to music by Franz Xaver Gruber. We wish you many a silent...
21 December 2022 – Events
Werckmeister—Oranienburg or Berlin?
If you were at the RISM Day which took place alongside this year’s IAML Congress in Prague, you might remember that there are entries for printed editions in RISM’s A/I series that should ideally be split into separate ones. One example is when a library indicates that it owns “several...
14 December 2022 – New at RISM
Musical Sources on Postage Stamps
Photocopies, microfilms, facsimiles, and digital scans: There are many ways to get your hands on copies of original sources for your desk at home. But when we think of reproductions of musical works, postage stamps don’t always come to mind. Let’s take a look at two German examples. The German...
8 December 2022 – New at RISM
