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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
Exhibit at the Frankfurt University Library: 350th Anniversary of Johann Andreas Herbst's Death
Johann Andreas Herbst (1588–1666) and His Music Library: A Testimonial to Music Playing and the Art of Printing Music Motivated by the ceremonial coronations for Holy Roman Emperor that took place in Frankfurt am Main in 1612 for Matthias and in 1619 for Ferdinand II, the city appointed its first...
28 January 2016 – Musical anniversaries
Ausstellung in der Frankfurter Universitätsbibliothek zu Johann Andreas Herbst aus Anlass des 350. Todestags
Johann Andreas Herbst (1588–1666) und seine Notenbibliothek – Ein Zeugnis für Musikpraxis und Notendruckkunst Angeregt durch die feierlichen Krönungen von 1612 (Kaiser Matthias) und 1619 (Kaiser Ferdinand II) wurde 1623 der erste städtische Musikdirektor in Frankfurt am Main angestellt. Die Wahl fiel auf den aus Nürnberg stammenden und zuvor an...
28 January 2016 – Library collections
RISM Modern Monday: Mexican Music
Our third entry in our RISM Modern Monday series is by John G. Lazos, who contributes Mexican sources to RISM (Spanish follows): Mexican music is generally recognized as the music from the first decades of the twentieth century, a perception which was influenced by a twentieth-century Mexican cultural national ideology....
25 January 2016 – Library collections
Donostia / San Sebastián: European Capital of Culture 2016
Donostia, the Basque name for San Sebastián in Spain, is one of the two European Capitals of Culture in 2016. Donostia joins Wrocław, Poland for year-long festivities of theater, music, dance, exhibitions, and more. Our colleagues at ERESBIL-Basque Archives of Music (E-RE) have written an overview of music life in...
21 January 2016 – In the news
RISM Modern Monday: Richard Strauss
The second part of our RISM Modern Monday series is dedicated to Richard Strauss (1864-1949), showing you again how sources in the RISM database extend well past the year 1800. Through a partnership with the Richard Strauss Institute, we have integrated their index of sources (RSQV) into the RISM database....
18 January 2016 – Library collections
Looking Back at 2015
The year 2015 is behind us, so we’d like take a moment to look at the stories that helped shape the past twelve months. We enjoyed a year full of thousands of new musical sources in the RISM database, exciting discoveries from our users, and fantastic new databases and digital...
14 January 2016 – New at RISM
