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Symphonic music in Great Britain
A new book crossed our desks recently: Jürgen Schaarwächter. Two Centuries of British Symphonism from the Beginnings to 1945: A Preliminary Survey. Hildesheim: Georg-Olms-Verlag, 2015. 2 volumes, 1201 p. ISBN: 978-3-487-15227-1 This book is a comprehensive survey of symphonic music in Great Britain and serves to dispel any remaining myths...
30 November 2015 – New publications
The Musical Couple Maddalena Lombardini and Lodovico Sirmen
Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen (1745-1818) grew up in Venice’s Ospedale dei Mendicanti and was a composer, violinist, and cellist. In 1759, she took violin lessons from Giuseppe Tartini, and Ferdinando Bertoni taught her in composition. In 1768, Maddalena went on tour with her husband Lodovico Sirmen (1738-1812), who was also a...
26 November 2015 – New publications
Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722)
Johann Kuhnau – wasn’t he Johann Sebastian Bach’s predecessor as Thomaskantor in Leipzig? Correct, but are you also familiar with his compositions? Maybe not so much. Kuhnau became especially famous through his works for keyboard instruments, which included Musicalische Vorstellung Einiger Biblischer Historien (6 sonatas for harpsichord; Leipzig, 1700), Neuer...
23 November 2015 – New at RISM
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
