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New RISM Coordinating Committee
RISM relies on its international partners and benefits from several structures in place to maintain a close relationship between RISM, its sponsoring societies, and its working groups. One of these bodies is the Advisory Council, whose membership includes all active RISM contributors around the world. Five members from Advisory Council...
29 January 2018 – New at RISM
New FONCA-RISM project in Mexico City | FONCA-RISM: Nuevo Proyecto en la Ciudad de México
We have received the following announcement from John Lazos (RISM Mexico/Canada): Dr. John Lazos, who has collaborated with RISM to catalogue over 500 music works from Mexico, just received a grant from FONCA (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes). This grant permits Dr. Lazos to catalogue around 450...
25 January 2018 – Library collections
The secret garden of Pierre Bergé
The following originally appeared the blog of the Loeb Music Library (Harvard University) and is by Christina Linklater (RISM US). It is reproduced here with kind permission. The Loeb Music Library has just acquired three items previously owned by the French industrialist, arts patron and AIDS activist Pierre Bergé (1930-2017)....
22 January 2018 – Library collections
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
We continue our series RISM A–Z with Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706). Organists certainly do not need convincing that Johann Pachelbel wrote more than just the Canon in D! Jean M. Perreault breaks down the numbers like this in his Thematic Catalogue of the Musical Works of Johann Pachelbel: Of the 528...
18 January 2018 – RISM A-Z
Exhibit in the Bavarian State Library on Historic Tablatures
The Bavarian State Library (BSB) in Munich is presenting an exhibit on tablature manuscripts entitled “Etlich Liedlein zu singen oder uff der Orgeln und Lauten zu schlagen.” The manuscript tablatures and partbooks from the 16th and 17th centuries will be on view until 28 March 2018. The tablatures present a...
15 January 2018 – Events
Looking Back on 2017
Last year, we enjoyed sharing news with you from the world of musical sources: discoveries, rediscoveries, new resources, and more. Let’s take a moment to look back on the stories from 2017 that were the most popular: Musical Anniversaries in 2017: Glad you liked it! Here’s...
11 January 2018 – New at RISM
Musical Anniversaries in 2018
Happy New Year! It has become something of a tradition for us to kick off the year by taking 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,...
8 January 2018 – Musical anniversaries
Happy Holidays 2017!
The RISM Central Office wishes you and your family all the best for a festive holiday season and a happy New Year. Our office will be closed the week of December 25. We look forward to working with you again in 2018. Image: Postcard circa 1900 from Furman University, Special...
21 December 2017 – Events
Weihnachtsgrüße 2017!
Die RISM Zentralredaktion wünscht Ihnen und Ihrer Familie ein besinnliches Weihnachtsfest und ein gutes Neues Jahr. Unser Büro bleibt vom 25.-29. Dezember geschlossen. Wir freuen uns auf die weitere Zusammenarbeit in 2018. Abbildung: Postkarte ca. 1900 aus der Furman University, Special Collections and Archives.
21 December 2017 – New at RISM
The Digitized Fétis Collection at the Royal Library of Belgium
We have received this announcement from Kris De Baerdemacker (RISM Belgium/Royal Library of Belgium): The Royal Library of Belgium (B-Br) has recently digitized over 1,000 sources from the Fétis collection (more information in French and Dutch). Old prints from his music library are now available online and include treatises on...
18 December 2017 – Electronic resources
