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New RISM Brochure in Spanish Now Available
RISM is pleased to announce that the brochure “RISM: An Overview” is now available in an English-Spanish version entitled “RISM: Presentación general.” It can be downloaded from the RISM website. If you want professionally printed copies of the brochure, also at no charge, please contact us: contact@rism.info. Let us know...
8 December 2016 – New publications
Mozart Autographs Online
Today we’re marking the 225th anniversary of the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) and at RISM we have our own way to celebrate the composer. Our online catalog now has around 340 autograph manuscripts, of which almost 50 can be freely viewed online. The catalog can deliver the famous...
5 December 2016 – Musical anniversaries
New Volume in Series B Published: Trio sonatas
The newest volume in RISM’s Series B has just been published: Ludwig Finscher, Laurenz Lütteken, Inga Mai Groote, eds., Die Triosonate. Catalogue Raisonné der gedruckten Quellen. RISM B/XVII. Munich: Henle, 2016. ISBN 978-3-87328-156-1 For one of the best-loved chamber music genres of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries – the trio...
2 December 2016 – New publications
Bringing the Past into the Future: Creating and Curating Digital Music Archives (Seoul, South Korea)
On October 28 and 29, 2016, our colleagues from RISM South Korea were our hosts for the conference Bringing the Past into the Future: Creating and Curating Digital Music Archives, held at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. The conference had a twofold purpose: a symposium and concert on October 28...
28 November 2016 – Events
Remembering Cheryl Martin
We were saddened to hear of the unexpected death of Cheryl Martin on July 15, 2016. Cheryl was the leader of the RISM Canada working group, which she took over in 2011 following William Guthrie’s retirement. Cheryl was a librarian at Western University in Ontario. Her cataloging expertise was always...
23 November 2016 – In memoriam
Muscat Workshop in Prague
As you all know, our new cataloging program Muscat was released last week, and excitement for the new program continues to grow. Following workshops in Frankfurt, Berlin, Warsaw, and Seoul, an additional workshop was held last week at the National Library in Prague. From November 14 to 16, Guido Kraus...
21 November 2016 – Events
The Archive of the Sorbian Institute in Germany
The following has reached us from Annett Bresan: Sorbisches Kulturarchiv / Sorbische Zentralbibliothek am Sorbischen Institut Bautzen Serbski kulturny archiw / Serbska centralna biblioteka při Serbskim instituće w Budyšinje The Archive of the Sorbian Institute (Sorbisches Kulturarchiv) is the only archive for the Sorbian language and Sorbian studies that is...
17 November 2016 – Library collections
Welcome, Muscat!
Beginning today, Muscat is available to RISM contributors as a central cataloging program for musical sources. Muscat includes sources from the various RISM series A/I, A/II, and B/I, which are in one database for the first time after having previously been managed in separate places. The new Muscat program contains...
14 November 2016 – New at RISM
Music Incipit Search(es)
The incipit search is one of the most popular features of the RISM online catalog. The over 1.7 million incipits (which are the first few bars of a work or movement) lead to new identifications, new discoveries, and rediscoveries. But just how does the incipit search work? In this post...
10 November 2016 – RISM online catalog
Muscat Workshop in Warsaw
The following has come in from Sonia Wronkowska of the Polish RISM Centre: On Monday and Tuesday last week 14 people took part in a Muscat workshop at the National Library of Poland in Warsaw. The workshop was organised by the Music Department and Librarian Education Department, and it wasconducted...
3 November 2016 – Events
