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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
Stylistic Eras Meet Each Other
Pater Roman has a short report for us about how things have almost returned to normal at Heiligenkreuz Abbey (Austria) after these exceptional circumstances. Gregorian chant rings out in accordance with Cistercian and Benedictine traditions at the Romanesque and Gothic collegiate church of Heiligenkreuz Abbey (RISM library siglum: A-HE). For...
8 June 2020 – Library collections
James Hewitt at 250
James Hewitt was born on this day—June 4—in 1770 in England and died in 1827 in Boston. Two things stand out right away: first, he is a near exact contemporary of Ludwig van Beethoven, and second, he was in the United States when the United States was itself in its...
4 June 2020 – Musical anniversaries
Vicente Olmos Claver: A Spanish Chapel Master of the 18th Century
We have received the following from Ángel Marzal, who recently cataloged the works of Vicente Olmos Claver for RISM. Vicente Olmos Claver was born around 1744 in Catarroja, a Spanish town located near Valencia. According to documentation in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Valencia, our chapel master began singing as an...
28 May 2020 – New at RISM
Music Manuscripts by Richard Strauss and Hans Pfitzner Online
The following was originally published on the blog of the Bavarian State Library and is reprinted here with kind permission. For years, the Bavarian State Library (BSB) has been making music manuscripts from its most prominent composer archival collections available online, including the autograph manuscripts of Gustav Mahler, Josef Rheinberger,...
25 May 2020 – Library collections
