News archive
Presentations from Latin America Conference Now Online
The RISM Central Office hosted a conference entitled “Documenting Musical Sources in Latin America” on September 15, 2016. We invited respected musicologists and librarians from throughout Latin America to report on the current state of describing sources in their countries and the state of research on cultural exchange. These presentations...
18 May 2017 – Events
New Findings on French Polyphonic Masses (1587-1626)
The following is a guest post by Laurent Guillo: In November 2016, a volume gathering 26 music prints published by the Ballard workshop in Paris between 1587 and 1626 was discovered in the early books collection of the Bibliothèque de Fels (Institut catholique de Paris; RISM siglum: F-Pic). At the...
15 May 2017 – Rediscovered
The Fifth Field
Here’s a trick to help you get more out of searching in the RISM online catalog. You might not have even noticed it before. In our online survey, we heard from many of you that you wish you could add more search fields in the Advanced search. Well, you can,...
10 May 2017 – RISM online catalog
Yet another misattributed (and rediscovered) Vivaldi work in Dresden
The following is a guest post by Michael Talbot (University of Liverpool, Department of Music, Emeritus): Regular Dresden-watchers will be aware of the ambitious project “Die Notenbestände der Dresdner Hofkirche und der Königlichen Privat-Musikaliensammlung aus der Zeit der sächsisch-polnischen Union” supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), which was brought to...
25 April 2017 – Rediscovered
RISM at the IMS Congress in Tokyo
I (Jennifer Ward) attended the International Musicological Society (IMS) congress in Tokyo from March 19 to 23, 2017, supported by a grant from Bibliothek & Information International/Goethe-Institut. The congress was hosted by the Tokyo University of the Arts and revolved around the theme Musicology: Theory and Practice, East and West....
20 April 2017 – Events
RISM mourns the loss of Wolfgang Rehm (1929-2017)
The International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM) mourns the loss of Wolfgang Rehm, who passed away on April 6, 2017. Wolfgang Rehm was a founding member of the Association Internationales Quellenlexikon der Musik and was its treasurer from 1967 to 1990, though correspondence with him goes back to 1960. In...
10 April 2017 – In memoriam
Mathias Georg Monn at 300
Not much is known about Mathias Georg Monn, a composer of the Viennese Early Classic period who was born 300 years ago this Sunday. Monn (9 April 1717 – 3 October 1750) is named in the records of the Klosterneuburg Monastery as Discantist for the years 1731/32. In 1738 or...
6 April 2017 – Musical anniversaries
Historical Music Collection Discovered in a Linz School (Austria)
We have received the following from Ikarus Kaiser (RISM Austria): At a secondary school in Linz, Austria (Bundesrealgymnasium Linz, Fadingerstraße), a historical music collection was discovered that dates from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This Linz Realschule is steeped in tradition, though an emphasis on a humanities-centered education...
3 April 2017 – Rediscovered
Scott Joplin's "The Cascades" and the St. Louis World's Fair
When you think of Scott Joplin (1867 or 1868-1917), a piano rag probably comes to mind rather than a piece for piano plus strings, winds, and percussion—but the latter is precisely the instrumentation of the only work in the RISM database by Joplin, who died 100 years ago on April...
30 March 2017 – Musical anniversaries
The 2016 Annual Report
We have just published the 2016 annual report on our website, available here. Here we’ll give you the highlights from the report. The release of Muscat was without a doubt the major accomplishment of the year, so we’ll begin with that… Muscat!: Our new, platform-independent cataloging program called Muscat was...
27 March 2017 – New publications
