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New Records from the Moravian Music Foundation now in RISM
We have received the following from Barbara Strauss, Moravian Music Foundation (Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA). The Salem Collegium Musicum Collection is now in RISM (library siglum: US-WS). The Salem Collegium Musicum collection includes primarily instrumental chamber and small-orchestra music, as well as some oratorios, vocal collections, keyboard music and band...
13 July 2020 – Library collections
Music and Dance for the Recovery of King Philip III of Spain
Around exactly 400 years ago, the printed music anthology Breve Racconto della Festa a Ballo was published in Naples by Costantino Vitale, of which only one copy is known today, held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (F-Pn). The Festa a Ballo is one of the few examples of Italian...
9 July 2020 – Musical anniversaries
Musik und Tanz zur Gesundung König Felipes III. von Spanien
Vor ziemlich genau 400 Jahren erschien in Neapel bei Costantino Vitale der Sammeldruck Breve Racconto della Festa a Ballo, von dem heute lediglich ein Exemplar in der Bibliothèque nationale de France (F-Pn) erhalten ist. Die Festa a Ballo ist eines der wenigen aus Italien stammenden Zeugnisse höfischer Tanzveranstaltungen mit Musik...
9 July 2020 – New at RISM
The Gerald Coke Handel Collection at the Foundling Museum
The following is by Katharine Hogg (The Foundling Museum, GB-Lfom) and originally appeared on the IAML UK & Ireland blog. It is reprinted here with kind permission. The Gerald Coke Handel Collection at the Foundling Museum comprises over 12,000 items from the eighteenth century to the present, and is a...
6 July 2020 – Library collections
Revising Records for Post-1600 Printed Anthologies: There is an End in Sight!
The project that began in November 2018 to revise the B/I records for printed music anthologies from 1601 to 1700, of which the printed editions up to 1610 have been online since March 2019, is slowly but surely coming to an end. Entries up to 1650 are completely online and...
2 July 2020 – New at RISM
Almost 20,000 Records from the BnF Now Also in RISM
We have received the following from François-Pierre Goy (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département de la Musique): Even though not all music manuscripts from the Bibliothèque nationale de France are in RISM, F-Pn is now the siglum with the fifth highest number of records in the database. The Music Department of...
29 June 2020 – RISM online catalog
10 Years of the RISM Online Catalog: Our Users
The RISM Catalog was released online ten years ago this month. On Monday we shared a piece by the RISM director, Klaus Keil, about the development of the catalog from microfiche to open access catalog. Today we’d like to share a few encouraging words from a very important group of...
25 June 2020 – RISM online catalog
10 Years of the RISM Online Catalog
Ten years ago this month, the RISM online catalog was first released free of charge. Not only has the amount of data significantly increased since then, but the catalog’s software is regularly updated and improved. The amount of data has increased from an initial 700,000 records with descriptions of music...
22 June 2020 – RISM online catalog
Was this book of Pleyel sonatas once part of Jane Austen's circle?
Music is part of the atmosphere of any Jane Austen novel. Eighteen music books containing almost 600 pieces in print and manuscript form and belonging to the Austen family were digitized in 2016. We know that the novelist used or compiled several of the books herself, representing some of the...
18 June 2020 – Library collections
The First Record from Andorra in RISM: The “Periodico de musica” of Maria Rosa d’Areny Jordana
We have received the following from Joan Benavent Peiró, PhD student in musicology at University of Andorra. The Principality of Andorra has recently been incorporated into the RISM database with the cataloging of “El Periódico de música de la S. D. Maria Rosa de Areny” (RISM ID no.: 1001050169). The...
15 June 2020 – New at RISM
