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Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim at 300
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (1719-1803) was a German poet of the Enlightenment who has largely been forgotten today. This is mainly due to the fanciful, galant style of the poems that made Gleim a leading exponent of anacreontics. For composers of his time, though, as well as into the 19th...
4 April 2019 – Musical anniversaries
A Most Excellent Selection of RISM Activities.
We humbly announce the Immediate Availability of a most excellent and outstanding booke of Activities & Diversions selected by the accomplished and consummate Editors of the Secretariat Central of RISM. Herein is offered for you a choice assortment of divertissements and meditations upon our most gentle art of Musike, the...
1 April 2019 – New publications
17th-Century Printed Anthologies: The First Decade is Now Online
Have you ever been annoyed that you can’t consistently find entries for 17th-century printed anthologies in the RISM catalog? We are working on changing that! The project to revise entries from 1500 and later in RISM’s series B/I, which has been underway since April 2017 and which has in the...
28 March 2019 – New at RISM
Search Strategies for Printed Music
Printed music is one of the “classic” RISM sources, with a long RISM tradition alongside music manuscripts, libretti, and treatises. Searching for printed music in the RISM catalog has only been possible since 2015, when printed editions by a single composer (to 1800) were added along with anthologies printed between...
25 March 2019 – RISM online catalog
RISM and Digital Musicology
The most recent issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries is a special issue called “Digital Libraries for Musicology,” and RISM is pleased to have an article in it: Keil, Klaus and Jennifer A. Ward. “Applications of RISM data in digital libraries and digital musicology,” “Digital Libraries for Musicology,”...
21 March 2019 – New publications
José Vicente González Valle In Memoriam
It saddened us to learn that the founder of the RISM working group in Spain, Prof. Dr. José Vicente González Valle, passed away on 23 February 2019. José Vicente, as we called him, was an organist, priest, musicologist, a good organizer, and a kind, dear man. He first encountered RISM...
18 March 2019 – In memoriam
Conference and Workshop: Works, Work Titles, Work Authorities: Perspectives on Introducing a Work Level in RISM
Dates: May 9-11, 2019 Location: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 2 55131 Mainz Registration: Registration form The conference is free and open to the public. Please help us plan by registering by 5 April 2019. Conference and Workshop: Works, Work Titles, Work Authorities: Perspectives on Introducing a Work...
14 March 2019 – Events
RISM at the Coding da Vinci 2018 Hackathon
RISM was one of the data providers at last year’s Coding da Vinci Rhein-Main Hackathon, which had participation from colleges and universities in Aschaffenburg, Darmstadt, Frankfurt am Main, Gießen, Mainz, Offenbach, Wiesbaden and Worms and was organized in part by the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek and Wikimedia Deutschland and supported by...
11 March 2019 – Events
A New Catalog of Works for Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz died 150 years ago tomorrow. Right in time for this major anniversary, a revised edition of the Catalogue of the Works of Hector Berlioz (originally published in 1987) has been released as a digital resource that is free online. D. Kern Holoman and Jonathan Minnick. Catalogue of the...
7 March 2019 – New publications
New on our bookshelves: Three composing Franciscan monks
Three Franciscan monks from the 17th and early 18th centuries who were composers have piqued the interest of Ivano Bettin. Francesco Antonio Vannarelli (1615-1679), Francesco Antonio Urio (ca. 1631 - ca. 1719), and Francesco Maria Benedetti (1683-1746) were the focus of three smaller studies and some modern editions. At the...
4 March 2019 – New publications
