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Cataloguing 17th- and 18th-century Manuscripts of French Music in the Ward Collection (US-CAward)
Natasha Roule, a candidate for the PhD in historical musicology at Harvard University, has spent the summer as a Pforzheimer Fellow at Houghton Library, Harvard’s principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, including rich holdings in print and manuscript music. Here is her account of her project, which saw the...
3 August 2015 – Library collections
Two significant Hanover collections now in RISM
This post comes to us from Helmut Lauterwasser of RISM Germany: Cataloging historical manuscripts in RISM has recently been completed for two important music institutions in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony. Though these collections are relatively small, they contain sources that are of great historical interest and significance. Both...
30 July 2015 – Library collections
After more than 200 years, one of Mozart’s autograph manuscripts returns to Salzburg
This announcement has reached us from Armin Brinzing, director of the Bibliotheca Mozartiana at the Mozarteum in Salzburg: Thanks to the generous support of a private donor, the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation has been able to acquire an extensive autograph manuscript by Mozart. The manuscript is a copy of a work...
27 July 2015 – Library collections
Adolph von Henselt (1814-1889)
Today’s installment of our series RISM A–Z takes us to letter H. The following post about composer Adolph von Henselt (1814-1889) is adapted from a text by Natalia Keil-Senserowa, author of Adolph von Henselt. Ein Leben für die Klavierpädagogik in Rußland and has been printed with kind permission. The young...
23 July 2015 – RISM A-Z
Work on Lambach Abbey Halfway Done
Frank van der Lecq of the Netherlands describes his work cataloging the collection of Lambach Abbey (A-LA) for RISM: Cataloging the music collection of the Benedictine monastery Lambach Abbey (A-LA) in Austria is almost halfway completed. Only small details need to be added to the instrumental music and the masses....
20 July 2015 – New at RISM
Mozart autograph from Budapest now available online
The head of the RISM national working group in Hungary, Balázs Mikusi (National Széchényi Library, Budapest; H-Bn), has announced that the newly discovered autograph fragment of Mozart’s famous Sonata in A major (K. 331, with the ‘Alla Turca’ finale) is now available online. The National Széchényi Library has just launched...
16 July 2015 – Rediscovered
Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785)
The 2014/2015 opera and theater season is wrapping up, so let’s take the opportunity to combine our series RISM A–Z with a current production. On June 20, the opera Alessandro nell’Indie by Baldassare Galuppi (libretto by Pietro Metastasio) premiered at the Mainfranken-Theater in Würzburg. The last performance is tomorrow, July...
13 July 2015 – RISM A-Z
Two New Countries in RISM: Andorra (AND) and Indonesia (RI)
The siglum database continues to grow! Thanks to requests made by researchers, we have added two new countries: Andorra and Indonesia. AND-AVan: Arxiu Nacional d’Andorra, Andorra la Vella, Andorra AND-AVbn: Biblioteca Nacional d’Andorra, Andorra la Vella, Andorra RI-Duufs: Universitas Udayana, Fakultas Sastra, Denpasar, Indonesia RI-Jpn: Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia, Jakarta,...
9 July 2015 – New at RISM
American Vernacular Music Manuscripts
We received the following announcement from AMS-Announce: Center for Popular Music Launches American Music Manuscripts Website The Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University announces the launch of its American Vernacular Music Manuscripts (AVMM) website. Built as part of a three-year project funded by the National Endowment for...
6 July 2015 – Electronic resources
No siglum? No problem!
From time to time we come across articles, dissertations, or databases with a list of sigla that includes a phrase such as “the following sigla, not in RISM, were derived for this project.” There’s a better way! We’ll make one for you! If you need a siglum for your research...
2 July 2015 – New at RISM
