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Friedrich Rochlitz at 250
The Leipzig writer and music journalist Johann Friedrich Rochlitz (12 February 1769 - 16 December 1842) studied theology and philosophy before working as a tutor. In 1798 he founded the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung at Breitkopf & Härtel, serving as the journal’s editor until 1818. It developed into the most important...
7 February 2019 – RISM A-Z
New Projects with RISM's Music Incipts
If you use RISM’s catalog, you know that the music incipits are one of the things that make RISM stand out among other music projects and catalogs: the ability to see–and search for–the first few notes of a composition. In the Advanced Search, you can search by note name or...
4 February 2019 – Electronic resources
RISM in VIAF
RISM has been delivering its authority records for personal names to VIAF since the middle of 2018. VIAF is the Virtual International Authority File, a joint project with many participating national libraries and library associations that is run by the library cooperative OCLC. Participating institutions include the national libraries of...
31 January 2019 – New at RISM
Upcoming RISM Events in Argentina and Italy
Thanks to the efforts of our colleagues in other countries, two events will enable the close study of musical sources: a workshop and an internship. Muscat Workshop Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina March 25-29, 2019 This workshop is being hosted by Leonardo Waisman and the Grupo de Musicología Histórica Córdoba...
28 January 2019 – Events
The Digital Interactive Mozart Edition
To celebrate Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 263rd birthday on 27 January, we would like to draw your attention to the Digital Mozart Edition (DME), a joint project from the Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg and the Packard Humanities Institute in Los Altos, California, and to the release of the Digital Interactive Mozart...
24 January 2019 – Electronic resources
New Sources from Canada in RISM
The following is by Becky Shaw (Dalhousie University): The Killam Memorial Library at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; CDN-Hu) is pleased to announce the addition of their music manuscripts and first edition publications to RISM. These materials are located within the University Archive collection at the Library and their...
21 January 2019 – Library collections
Looking Back on 2018
Before we get too far into 2019, let’s take a look at our most popular stories on our blog that we published in 2018. In case you missed some of these discoveries and developments in the world of musical sources, here’s your chance to catch up! ...
17 January 2019 – New at RISM
Musical Anniversaries in 2019
Happy New Year! As in past years, we would like to take a look at musical anniversaries for the next twelve months. The people whose birthdays or anniversaries of death we mark are not only composers but they can also be librettists, performers, dedicatees, or people who are in other...
14 January 2019 – Musical anniversaries
Call for Papers: Workshop/Conference on the Work Level in RISM
Libraries worldwide have been discussing work titles with increasing intensity. Transferring this idea to musical works seems particularly plausible at first glance, as the production of catalogs of works has a tradition of more than 100 years in musicology. However, especially in recent decades, the concept of the work itself...
10 January 2019 – Events
Happy Holidays 2018!
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 2019. Our office will be closed beginning December 24...
20 December 2018 – Events
