News archive
The 2015 Annual Report
The past year was an exciting one for RISM, as the recently published annual report for 2015 shows. Thanks to the hard work from RISM contributors and partners around the world, we hit the 1,000,000th record in the RISM database and are looking ahead to the next milestone. Here are...
3 March 2016 – New publications
The dating game
We bring you a post today by our colleagues at the MusiCB3 Blog of Cambridge University (CC-BY): What? Has MusiCB3 gone mad? TWO Valentine’s Day posts this year? Actually no. This is about a much more important topic – dating printed music. Now, I know this may not sound wildly...
29 February 2016 – Library collections
18th-Century Music Manuscript "Libro Sesto" Tells of Colonial History in Chile
The Biblioteca Nacional de Chile in Santiago (RCH-Sbnc) is home to a rare music manuscript from ca. 1790, which it has had in its possession since January 2014. It was a gift from the descendants of the Chilean musicologist Guillermo Marchant Espinoza (1950-2009), who rescued it from the rubble during...
25 February 2016 – In the news
Announcing the Bohemian Watermark Database
The following has reached us from Eliška Šedivá (National Library, Prague): The Music Department of the National Library of the Czech Republic presents the Bohemian Watermark Database, which continuously grows during the course of cataloguing and reviewing the musical sources registered in the Union Music Catalogue of the NLCR by...
22 February 2016 – Electronic resources
Conference: The Music Repertoire of the Society of Jesus in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1565–1773)
From February 5 to 6, 2016, Guido Kraus from the RISM Central Office attended an international musicological conference at the University of Warsaw Library entitled “The Music Repertoire of the Society of Jesusin the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1565–1773).Sources – Editing – Cataloguing.” The conference was hosted by the Institute of Musicology...
19 February 2016 – Events
RISM Workshop and Seminar in Warsaw (February 3-4, 2016)
The following has reached us from Sonia Wronkowska of RISM Poland: The workshop “Introduction to Kallisto” and a RISM seminar took place at the beginning of February in Warsaw, and was organised by the Polish RISM Centre (Music Department) and the Librarian Education Department of the National Library of Poland....
17 February 2016 – Events
The 2016 RISM Bird Count
The winter months keep most of us indoors, but this time of the year is greeted by birdwatchers on both sides of the Atlantic as they grab their binoculars and head outside for annual bird counts. There is the Christmas Bird Count in North America, the Big Garden Birdwatch in...
15 February 2016 – In the news
The Dukes of Arenberg and Music in the Eighteenth Century: The Story of a Music Collection
Our colleague Marie Cornaz from RISM Belgium has recently published a revised and expanded edition of her Les ducs d’Arenberg et la musique au XVIIIesiècle. Histoire d’une collection musicale and it is available for the first time in English: Marie Cornaz, The Dukes of Arenberg and Music in the Eighteenth...
11 February 2016 – New publications
RISM Modern Monday: Marianne Teuscher (1903–2009), the "Queen Mum" of the Music Department
No, you’re not mistaken: the dates of birth and death for Marianne Teuscher are correct. She lived to the ripe old age of 106 and is quite likely the longest-lived person in the RISM database—and as the fifth and last person in our RISM Modern Monday series, she brings us...
8 February 2016 – Library collections
RISM Modern Monday: Composer Archives in RISM
In our series RISM Modern Monday, we mustn’t omit composer archives - collections of personal papers and/or manuscripts that are left to a library - particularly because they contain a large share of the twentieth-century musical sources that are documented in RISM. Processing these archival collections is done by the...
1 February 2016 – Library collections
