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Muscat Workshops in October 2018
RISM will be holding more Muscat workshops this week and next. Printed music will be at the focus of a Muscat workshop for the first time that will be held from 4–6 October 2018 in the RISM Central Office in Frankfurt. In total, 14 people from Germany and abroad have...
1 October 2018 – Events
A Dedicated Website for the Muscat Project
We have received the following from Laurent Pugin (RISM Switzerland): Every RISM working group knows Muscat - it is the familiar interface with which each contributor has catalogued musical sources in the RISM database since 2016. But what is the history and the philosophy of this software project? What are...
27 September 2018 – RISM Digital Center
New Sources from the Archivo Musical del Colegio de Vizcaínas (Mexico)
We have received the following announcement from John Lazos (RISM Mexico/Canada). English follows. Dr. Lazos está listo para continuar con su segunda visita al Archivo Musical del Colegio de Vizcaínas. Son mas de 200 nuevas entradas de este archivo (MEX-Mahn) que se pueden consultar en la base de datos de...
24 September 2018 – Library collections
Current Mozart and Clementi Projects
The high point of every summer for RISM is the annual IAML congress, which as you may know was in Leipzig this year (you can read our reflections on the congress). One session in particular sponsored by the IAML Bibliography Section focused on three current bibliographic projects that are sure...
20 September 2018 – In the news
RISM—500 Years Ago
The year 1518 was in many respects shaped by important events, and particularly people, that you can find the RISM catalog relatively frequently. To name just two examples: In 1518, Martin Luther refused to revoke his 95 theses and the later Lutheran reformer Philipp Melanchthon held his inaugural speech as...
17 September 2018 – Musical anniversaries
A Bilingual Chart of Common Chinese Instrument Names
The following post is by TSENG Tzu-Chia from the RISM working group Chinese Language Region: 2018/08 RISM-CLR Completed the Paper Presentation in 2018 IAML Annual Conference and Presented the “Bilingual Chart of Common Chinese Instrument Names” The 2018 IAML annual conference was held in Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix...
10 September 2018 – New publications
Romantic satire, "With Music."
The following was written by Charlotte Köhler, our intern from summer 2018: At the end of the 18th century, the first thinkers of the German Romantic era—in particular the group centered in Jena around the brothers August Wilhelm (1767-1845) and Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829)—developed the idea of a “universal poetry,” meaning...
6 September 2018 – New at RISM
Adriano Banchieri at 450
Tommaso Banchieri (1568-1624) is known today as having the first name Adriano, which he adopted in 1589 when he entered the Benedictine order, or more precisely the Olivetan order. He also used the pseudonyms Attabalibba dal Perù, Camillo Scaligeri della Fratta, and Il Dissonante. Banchieri was active as an organist...
3 September 2018 – Musical anniversaries
Telemann digital
We have received the following from Ann Kersting-Meuleman (Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main): Almost 800 music manuscripts by the eminent composer Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) housed at the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg are being digitized with funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG). The project will last 1.5 years and...
27 August 2018 – Library collections
Congress Diary from IAML Leipzig 2018
Four members of the RISM Central Office attended the annual congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres in Leipzig. In traditional Congress Diary style, we offer you some impressions from Leipzig with each contributor writing in their native language. Von Klaus Keil: Meine Aufgabe auf...
23 August 2018 – Events
