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Using and Reusing RISM Data
The RISM data—all 1.1 million musical sources, plus over 200,000 authority files—are available as linked data and linked open data for anyone to use, manipulate, explore, and research. We would like to call your attention to two recent initiatives that make use of the RISM data. The Edirom Summer School...
15 August 2019 – RISM Digital Center
Michele Pesenti: Complete works
The following first appeared in Bibliolore – The RILM Blog and is reproduced here with kind permission: In 2019 A-R Editions published Michele Pesenti: Complete works, a critical edition produced by an editorial team including a musicologist, a linguist, and a musicologist-performer. While earlier musicologists assumed continuities between frottola and...
12 August 2019 – New publications
New Music Manuscripts from Italy (ICCU) in RISM
After several years of discussions and negotiations with the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo unico delle Biblioteche Italiane (ICCU) and an intensive technical preparatory phase, more than 200,000 records of music manuscripts from the SBN Musica database were transferred to the internal RISM database at the beginning of 2019. The...
8 August 2019 – New at RISM
New Catalog of the Music Archive of Vizcaínas (Mexico)
We have received the following from our RISM contributor John G. Lazos: John G. Lazos, Catálogo del Acervo Musical del Colegio de Vizcaínas (Amcv). La memoria sonora de los colegios femeninos en México entre los siglos XVI-XIX, 2019. Available through academia.edu. Dr. Lazos has completed the Catálogo del Acervo Musical...
5 August 2019 – Library collections
Books About Music Before 1800 Digitized and Online
The following is from the Library of Congress’s Books About Music Before 1800 collection: The Music Division of the Library of Congress has launched a new site with scans of approximately 2,000 books on music published before 1800. The scans were made from microfilmed versions of the books. Shortly after...
1 August 2019 – Electronic resources
Mapping the Musical Landscape of the Sixteenth Century (MML16)
We have received the following announcement courtesy of Emily Hopkins (McGill University): The invention of music printing transformed the European musical landscape in the sixteenth century. Access to clear and affordable notated music made it possible for far more people to learn to read music and perform it in their...
29 July 2019 – In the news
Performance Materials from "Tannhäuser" and "Meistersinger von Nürnberg" Now Online
This post by Andrea Hammes has been adapted from the original that appeared on the SLUB Blog (CC-BY 4.0): For Richard Wagner’s 206th birthday on 22 May 2019, the Landesdigitalisierungsprogramm Sachsen (LDP) and the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Semper Oper) had a special present for all Wagner fans: High-quality digital copies...
25 July 2019 – Electronic resources
Music History's Earliest Engraved Notes – Simone Verovio
While printed music in the 16th century was primarily produced using type printing, which gave it a typically blurry overall look (except with Ottaviano Petrucci), the printed editions by Simone Verovio are particularly striking because of their handwritten appearance. The engraved printed music is easily recognizable through its characteristic platemark....
22 July 2019 – In the news
Polish Sources in RISM since 2017
The introduction of the RISM-specific Muscat cataloging program at the end of 2016 was met with great interest in the Polish working groups and cataloging projects. Since then, many new contributors have been trained and more than 5,000 additional records from Poland have been added to the RISM database. New...
18 July 2019 – Library collections
Musical Collections in the Jagiellonian Library Through the Ages
RISM is heading to Kraków this week for the IAML congress hosted by the Jagiellonian University. A full week is planned with congress sessions, excursions, and concerts, and a special highlight will be an exhibit in the Jagiellonian Library: From theoretical treaties to musical masterpieces – musical collections in the...
15 July 2019 – Library collections
