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The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (EMIR)
New on our bookshelves is: Harry White and Barra Boydell, eds. The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2013. ISBN: 9781906359782 This is a long-awaited two-volume set that covers all aspects of Irish music. According to the publisher’s website, EMIR is “the first comprehensive attempt to...
24 September 2015 – New publications
RISM at the AIBM Conference in Stuttgart
The AIBM annual conference (German branch of IAML) is right around the corner: from September 22 to 25, around 160 participants will come together from Germany and neighboring German-speaking countries to discuss the current situation of music libraries and their future. Sessions of interest to public as well as academic...
21 September 2015 – Events
Poetry of the Seventeenth Century in Music
This post is by Clotilde Angleys (Département de la Musique) and originally appeared on the Gallica blog of the Bibliotheque national de France. It is reproduced here in accordance with their Creative Commons policy. The 37 Livres d’airs de différents auteurs issued by the music publishers Robert and Christophe Ballard...
17 September 2015 – Library collections
RISM and the "R"s in Mexico
The Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Musical (CENIDIM) and the Conservatorio de las Rosas in Mexico have organized an international meeting for music and performing arts, the Encuentro Internacional de Investigación y Documentación de la Música y las Artes Escénicas, from 17 to 19 September 2015. Participants will...
14 September 2015 – Events
30 Johann Bachs, or searching for "unclear" composers
Back in March we showed you in this space how to link to RISM searches in the online catalog. In most cases, this works without a hitch - you can even use pseudonyms or other forms of the name, as long as they are entered as variants in RISM. Here’s...
10 September 2015 – RISM online catalog
Digitized Opera Scores at the German Historical Institute in Rome
We have received this report from Roland Pfeiffer: Digitization of around 180 opera scores from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has recently been completed as part of one of the multi-year research projects financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and led by Dr. Roland Pfeiffer at the Department...
7 September 2015 – Library collections
RISM at the International Museum Forum in Kazan, Russia
Klaus Keil from the RISM Central Office is invited to participate in the International Museum Forum in Kazan, Russia from September 8 to 11, 2015. This conference is being organized by the Ministry for Culture of the Russian Federation, the Ministry for Culture of the Tatarstan Republic, and ICOM Russia...
3 September 2015 – Events
Announcing a New RISM Working Group in Poznań, Poland
A new RISM working group was founded this past June at the Institute for Musicology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Under the direction of Dr. habil. Alina Mądry and with the support of Dr. habil. Magdalena Walter-Mazur, the new RISM group in Poznań will work with interested...
31 August 2015 – New at RISM
Giuseppe Corsi: New Catalog of Works Cited in RISM
Each year, numerous scholarly books, editions, and catalogs of works are published. Many foreign prints or publications from smaller publishers are not acquired by libraries. Not every publication gets the recognition that it really deserves. Which made us all the more happy to receive a book tip from Giovanni Tribuzio,...
27 August 2015 – New publications
The Start of Bohemian Watermark Research in the RISM Working Group in Prague (National Library of the Czech Republic)
This report has come to us from Eliška Šedivá, RISM Czech Republic: A year ago we started to develop a proper and systematic method for researching watermarks as an important indication of the provenance and time determination of musical sources. Furthermore, we believe that correct watermark description and identification can...
24 August 2015 – New at RISM
