News archive
The Dutch Song Database
The Dutch Song Database is a resource for song texts in Dutch, Flemish, and Frisian from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century. The database, which was launched last year, contains descriptions for over 170,000 songs. Links to song text transcriptions, notated music, and sound recordings are included if available....
19 November 2015 – Electronic resources
New RISM Working Group in Asia Founded
RISM is delighted to announce that a new working group in Asia has been founded. The working group RISM-Chinese Language Region was planned at a conference concerning the Collaborative Project on Chinese Music Resources (CPCMR) held in October 2015, which RISM director Klaus Keil attended. CPCMR was launched to promote...
16 November 2015 – New at RISM
Manuscript containing Jewish liturgical songs (1832) now in RISM
The following has reached us from Steffen Voss (RISM Germany): In 2010, a valuable music manuscript was discovered within the rooms of the Jewish Congregation of Munich and Upper Bavaria (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde München und Oberbayern): a manuscript from 1832 entitled Gottesdienstliche Gesänge der Israeliten in Wien, liturgical songs of the...
12 November 2015 – Library collections
Historical inventories of music online
The following news has reached us from the Hofmusik in Dresden project: Eight historical, handwritten inventories of music from the Dresden court have recently been made available online for researchers and everyone interested in music. The comprehensive inventories were put together between 1726 and 1780 and list both the music...
9 November 2015 – Library collections
Fanny Hensel (1805-1847)
The previous entry in the series RISM A–Z was on Adolph von Henselt so today we bring you a name that sounds similar: Fanny Hensel (1805-1847). In the RISM database there are over 180 sources for Hensel, the vast majority of them being autograph manuscripts that are held by the...
5 November 2015 – RISM A-Z
Music in Southwest German Courts
After sharing an announcement last week about a conference on court music in Dresden, we’d like to invite you on a journey south and take a look at Südwestdeutsche Hofmusik - Music in Southwest German Courts. The goal of this project, which started in 2006 and is funded by the...
2 November 2015 – Electronic resources
New Volume in RISM's Series B: Balinese Palm-Leaf Manuscripts
RISM announces the newest volume in its publication series B, which presents bibliographies of musical sources organized by topic: Tilman Seebass, Catalogue raisonné of the Balinese Palm-Leaf Manuscripts with Music Notation. RISM B/XVI. Munich: Henle, 2015. 309 p. ISBN 978-3-87328-155-4 The sixteenth volume in series B, RISM’s first ethnomusicological publication,...
29 October 2015 – New publications
Collecting – Performing – Exploring. Dresden’s Eighteenth-Century Court Music
The following announcement has reached us from the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB): January 21 to 23, 2016 International conference of the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) In the context of the DFG-funded project “The Music of the Dresden Court Church and the Royal Private Music...
28 October 2015 – Events
Schubert Autograph Music Manuscripts in Schubert Online
All of the autograph music manuscripts by Franz Schubert (1797-1828) that are housed at the Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, SBB) - numbering around 60 total - have been digitized and cataloged in the RISM database as part of the project Schubert Online. The digitized music is available through...
26 October 2015 – Library collections
From the Library's Treasure Chest: A RISM Concert in Cologne
The library at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne (RISM siglum: D-KNh) houses a comprehensive collection of music manuscripts, with an emphasis on vocal music from the first half of the nineteenth century. These items are from older holdings that were taken over from the institution’s predecessor, the...
23 October 2015 – Events
