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The Full English: Digitized English Folk Manuscripts
There is a new digital resource for English folk manuscripts: The Full English “The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) and its partners present the world’s largest online collection of English folk manuscripts. “Freely explore 80,000 pages of traditional songs, dances, tunes and customs from the golden age of...
13 May 2015 – Electronic resources
Digitizing Materials from Dresden's Royal Music Collections
This entry is by Nina Eichholz (SLUB Dresden) and originally appeared on the Hofmusik in Dresden (Dresden Court Music) project website. It is reprinted here with kind permission. In February 2015, the first manuscripts were digitized from the DFG-funded project Dresden Court Church and Royal Private Music Collection (Hofkirche und...
11 May 2015 – Library collections
Happy Birthday, Brahms and Tchaikovsky!
This post is an excerpt of an article by David Plylar that originally appeared on the Library of Congress’s “In the Muse” blog. On May 7, Brahms and Tchaikovsky share a birthday—an annual event since Tchaikovsky waltzed into the world in1840, seven years after Brahms. Recognition of this coincidentally shared...
7 May 2015 – Musical anniversaries
Happy Birthday - Brahms und Tschaikowski!
Dieser Beitrag ist ein Auszug einesArtikels von David Plylar, der im Original “In the Muse”-Blog der Library of Congress erschien. Am 7. Mai haben Brahms und Tschaikowski Geburtstag — ein jährliches Ereignis seit Tschaikowski 1840, sieben Jahre nach Brahms, das Licht der Welt erblickte. Dieses zufällig gemeinsame Datum gibt Anlass...
7 May 2015 – Library collections
A Peek Inside Beethoven's Workshop
The large-scale research project Beethovens Werkstatt (Beethoven’s Workshop), which is based at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn and the Musicology Seminar in Detmold and Paderborn, is a project coordinated by the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz (also the main sponsor of the RISM Zentralredaktion). The research team, now...
4 May 2015 – Electronic resources
International Tuba Day on 1 May
Tomorrow, the first Friday in May, is International Tuba Day! This day recognizes “tubists in musical organizations around the world who have to go through the hassle of handling a tuba,” according to the official website. One of the most famous works for tuba is Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Concerto for...
30 April 2015 – Events
In memoriam: Joachim Schlichte-Bierbaum (1947-2015)
On Monday, April 20, 2015, Dr. Joachim Schlichte-Bierbaum died of heart disease at the age of 68. From 1982 to 1990, he was the director of the RISM Central Office. Schlichte was born in Lübeck in 1947 and studied music education, choral conducting, German studies, art history, and musicology in...
28 April 2015 – In memoriam
New Research on Mexican Sources
During the month of April, Dr. John Lazos is spending his time between research at various Mexican archives and giving a seminar at the Faculty of Music of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Dr. Lazos has been awarded a bursary from the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las...
23 April 2015 – Library collections
RISM Colloquium and Open House
We’re in our fourth month at our new office, and it’s time to celebrate! Join us April 23-24 for our RISM colloquium and open house. The colloquium will feature reports from working groups. Our colleagues from Austria, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Poland, South Korea, and the United Kingdom...
20 April 2015 – Events
RISM Data as Open Data and Linked Open Data
RISM data have been available as open data since 2013, and as linked open data since the summer of 2014. The RISM open data are available on the linked open data page of the RISM online catalog. This link allows you to download the entire batch. What does this mean?...
16 April 2015 – RISM online catalog
