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Instrument of the Year 2018: The Cello
Even though the year is drawing to a close, there is still enough time to take a look at the Instrument of the Year. Last year, the state music councils in Germany selected the oboe to be the Instrument of the Year. This year, it is the cello. At RISM,...
6 December 2018 – In the news
Music and Mozart's Starling
The European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is wrapping up its final weeks as Bird of the Year here in Germany. The environmental organization NABU hopes to call attention to the familiar songbird and its extremely versatile vocal chords, but unfortunately the species is also facing loss of habitat and declining numbers....
3 December 2018 – In the news
MMM2 is Online, A Music Encyclopedia for the Central Rhine Region
Are you familiar with the online encyclopedia Musik und Musiker am Mittelrhein 2? It is a publication from the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für mittelrheinische Musikgeschichte e. V. and as of Saturday, October 20, the first 250 articles are freely available online at www.mmm2.mugemir.de. Numerous entries feature people who are the subject of...
29 November 2018 – Electronic resources
Seminar Report: Notated Music in the Digital Sphere
Will there ever be a Google Books for music? Can motivic searches of a fugue be automated? Are partbooks plagued by iron gall ink deterioration lost forever? These were some of the questions posed last month in Oslo at the seminar Notated Music in the Digital Sphere: Possibilities and Limitations...
26 November 2018 – Events
Report on Electronic Data Delivery to RISM using the Moravská zemská knihovna v Brně (Moravian Library; CZ-Bu) as an example: Requirements, Procedure, and Description of the Collection
Over the past two years, the RISM Central Office has received a number of electronic data deliveries from Italy, France, the United States, and the Czech Republic, with the Czech delivery containing “only” 2,078 catalog descriptions of music manuscripts. The data in the file from the Moravská zemská knihovna v...
22 November 2018 – Library collections
The 500th Anniversary of Pierre de la Rue's Death
Another musician celebrating a major anniversary in 2018 is Pierre de la Rue (ca. 1452, Tournai - 1518, Courtrai), who died 500 years ago today. Pierre de la Rue was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer, a leading composer at the Burgundian court, and undoubtedly one of the last great figures...
20 November 2018 – Musical anniversaries
Internships at the RISM Central Office
We would like to announce that we are accepting applications for interns at the RISM Central Office in Frankfurt, Germany. RISM offers internships in its editorial department to people interested in experiencing the day-to-day work of a major digital bibliographic and musicological project. Internships are ideal for people interested in...
12 November 2018 – New at RISM
Couperin 350
People have been celebrating the 350th birthday of François Couperin since January and the pinnacle of the celebrations will be reached this Saturday. We have chosen a few of the many events that will be taking place. The conference “François Couperin: A 350th Anniversary Symposium” at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire...
8 November 2018 – Musical anniversaries
"Le lettere di Casa Ricordi online" Launches Today
The Archivio Storico Ricordi preserves the historical materials of one of the most significant music publishers of all time. For over 200 years, the Ricordi publishers have influenced Italian musical life not only through their publishing activities but also as impresarios, cultural supporters, and managers. The Archivio Storico Ricordi is...
5 November 2018 – Electronic resources
New RISM Project in Colombia
We have received the following announcement from Dr. Rondy F. Torres López (RISM Colombia). English follows: Rondy Torres, doctor en musicología, profesor de la Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), ha iniciado un nuevo proyecto de catalogación de un fondo hasta ahora desconocido: la música del siglo XIX del archivo...
1 November 2018 – Library collections
