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Looking Back on 2019
The year 2020 is still young, but let’s take a moment to look back on 2019 at the most popular stories from the world of musical sources that we published here on the RISM blog. May 2020 be as rich with discoveries! New Music Manuscripts from...
16 January 2020 – New at RISM
2020: Not Just Beethoven!
Happy New Year! As in past years, we would like to take a look at musical anniversaries for the next twelve months. It goes without saying that Beethoven will play a large role at RISM in 2020 but there are also over other 1,300 people to discover: composers, librettists, performers,...
9 January 2020 – Musical anniversaries
Happy Holidays 2019!
The RISM Central Office wishes you and your family all the best for a festive holiday season. We would like to thank you for your valuable work this year and we wish you all the best for a happy and successful 2020. Our office will be closed beginning December 23...
18 December 2019 – Events
Insect of the Year 2019: Red Mason Bee
The Red Mason Bee was chosen as the 2019 Insect of the Year by the environmental organization NABU for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. It is the most common mason bee in Germany. When we think about bees, we usually think of the busy honey bee. But there are actually many...
9 December 2019 – In the news
Bari, Barletta, Crispiano, Lecco, Mantova, Noci, Novara, Sassoferrato, and Vercelli
The newest records in the RISM catalog include music manuscripts that we imported from the Italian database SBN Musica. This is part of an ongoing project that we reported on in August. Records from the following libraries can now be found in RISM: I-BAibimus (19 records) I-BARas (33 records) I-CRIc...
5 December 2019 – Library collections
RISM on a Lark
As we enter the deep months of winter here in Frankfurt (no snow yet, though), thinking about 2019’s Bird of the Year puts us in a spring mood with thoughts of nice weather. The skylark is the 2019 Bird of the Year here in Germany, chosen by the environmental organization...
25 November 2019 – In the news
New RISM Cataloging Project at the Conservatory of Queretaro, Mexico
Proyecto de catalogación del Conservatorio de Querétaro, México (English below) John G. Lazos, nuestro colaborador está a punto de comenzar el proyecto de catalogación del acervo musical del Fondo reservado del Conservatorio “José Guadalupe Velázquez” en Querétaro, México (siendo su clave en RISM: MEX-SQamc). Durante su visita de este mes,...
21 November 2019 – Library collections
RISM at the Helsinki Cataloging Seminar
RISM participated in the Helsinki Cataloging Seminar hosted by the University of Helsinki and the National Library of Finland last month, which took place on October 22. I (Jennifer Ward) was invited by our colleague Jaakko Tuohiniemi (Helsinki University Library) to hold to keynote address for an audience that was...
18 November 2019 – Events
Caught the Catch?
While revising the many anthologies published by John Playford starting around 1650 (titles ranging from Catch that Catch Can and Musicks Recreation to Select Ayres and Dialoges) the entry for B/I 1653|7 (Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues […] Printed by T[homas] H[arper] for John Playford) stood out because the British...
14 November 2019 – New at RISM
Instrument of the Year 2019: Saxophone
The following was written by our intern from Spain, Carmen Álvarez (English below): Cada año, en Alemania, un intrumento tiene el honor de ser elegido el instrumento del año, y en 2019 el turno ha sido para el saxofón. Inventado a principios de la década de 1840 por Adolph Sax,...
11 November 2019 – In the news
