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Bessie Lim, the First Woman Musician of Korea and her Newly Discovered Work
We have received the following from Dr. JeongYoun Chang (RISM South Korea): Bessie Lim (林培世, 1897-1999) was a talented woman musician in early modern Korea. She made lots of stage appearances as a soprano and composed “Temperance Song” (금주가/禁酒歌, 1918; RISM ID no. 1001064244) when it was rare to see...
18 April 2019 – Rediscovered
Muscat Workshop with Guido Kraus in L'viv (12-14 February 2019)
We have received the following from Angelika Moths: Initiated by the Haliciana Schola Cantorum (HSC), a Swiss association for the promotion of culture in Western Ukraine, an international musicology symposium called “Ex umbra in solem” was held at the Ukrainian Catholic University in L’viv in November 2017. During the event,...
11 April 2019 – Events
Newly discovered autograph of the cantata "Die Fischerin" by Engelbert Humperdinck
We have received the following from Gottfried Heinz-Kronberger (RISM Germany): An autograph manuscript by Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) has been discovered in the library collections of the Universität der Künste in Berlin: the dramatic cantata Die Fischerin for three solo voices and orchestra with words by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which...
11 April 2019 – Rediscovered
Muscat-Workshop mit Guido Kraus in L'viv (12.-14. Februar 2019)
Der folgende Beitrag stammt von Angelika Moths: Initiiert von der Haliciana Schola Cantorum (HSC) – einem Schweizer Verein zur Förderung der Kultur in der Westukraine – fand im November 2017 das internationale musikwissenschaftliche Symposium „Ex umbra in solem“ an der Katholischen Universität in L’viv statt. Dabei wurde deutlich, dass es...
11 April 2019 – New at RISM
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
