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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
100 Days of Muscat
We’ve reached a Muscat milestone: we have been using our specially developed music cataloging program for just over 100 days! Over 150 contributors around the world have Muscat and over 3,700 records have been added to the RISM online catalog since the release in November 2016. Muscat continues to be...
20 March 2017 – New at RISM
RISM at the International Musicological Society Congress in Tokyo
RISM will be represented at the 20th Congress of the International Musicological Society in Tokyo next week, from March 19 to March 23, 2017. The theme of the congress is Musicology: Theory and Practice, East and West. The IMS, along with IAML, co-sponsors the 4 R projects (RISM, RILM, RIdIM,...
13 March 2017 – Events
International Women's Day: Women Composers in RISM
Note: We updated this list in 2021. Today, March 8, is celebrated around the world as International Women’s Day. Among many other things the organizers support “a call to action for accelerating gender parity.” In music, as we know, women musicians have struggled throughout history to be as visible as...
8 March 2017 – Events
Karl Marx (1897-1985)
Music researchers of the world, unite! Today in our series RISM A–Z we’re going to talk about Karl Marx–that’s right, the Bavarian composer and choral conductor!* Our Karl Marx was born in 1897 in Munich, meaning he was rife for military service when World War I broke out. He was...
6 March 2017 – RISM A-Z
How to Cite RISM Records
This post was updated in 2022. RISM is happy when scholars cite RISM records in their publications. Here we’ll show you how to do that. RISM ID number: To cite musical sources that have records in the RISM online catalog, use the RISM ID number. This number appears in the...
2 March 2017 – RISM online catalog
The Spitzeders, A Musical Family
If you search for “Spitzeder” online, you’ll first stumble upon a lot of websites related to the actress Adele Spitzeder (1832-1895; image left). She has a musical tie-in (later in life she performed popular songs as the singer Adele Vio), but today she is more infamous than famous for founding...
23 February 2017 – New at RISM
Length of RISM Catalog Sessions Increased
We are pleased to announce that the length of sessions for the RISM online catalog has been increased: now your session will expire after 25 minutes of inactivity. This is an improvement from the previous situation, where we heard from some users that sessions were expiring after just a few...
20 February 2017 – RISM online catalog
