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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
Introducing the Ewha Music Data Base (EMDB)
The following is by Hyun Kyung Chae, director of RISM South Korea: The Ewha Music Research Institute (EMRI) recently completed a 3-year project to establish a database of East Asia’s Educational Music Documents in October 2014. The result, Ewha Music Data Base (EMDB), now showcases the EMRI’s work of collecting...
14 April 2015 – Electronic resources
Frederick the Great
Music at the court of Frederick the Great has fascinated scholars for decades and a flury of activity arose when “Old Fritz” celebrated his tercentenary in 2012, with books, concerts, and conferences around the world. Work from our colleagues at RISM Germany even turned up an autograph manuscript by the...
8 April 2015 – RISM A-Z
Composers identified in Dresden's royal music collections
This article 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 the DFG project Hofkirche und Königliche Privat-Musikaliensammlung (Dresden Court Church and Royal Private Music Sheet Collection), which has been underway for the...
2 April 2015 – Library collections
New CD Box Set: The RISM Complete Incipits Edition
Many people know that one of the things that makes RISM unique is that we include music incipits in our records. How many times have you thought to yourself, “If only I could listen to these music incipits all day!” Now you can! Announcing a new CD box set, the...
1 April 2015 – New at RISM
Help solve a 90-year-old musical mystery
A competition has been set up by the Italian music monthly Musica to find works by the almost unknown Italian-Argentinian composer Rodolfo Zanni (1901-1927). After his mysterious death, his works completely disappeared. He composed over 80 works: symphonies, overtures, ballets, sonatas, and two operas. Can you find any? A worldwide...
30 March 2015 – In the news
How can you link to RISM searches?
Many smaller institutions, including libraries, archives, private collectors, etc. do not maintain an online catalog of their collections but want to present the RISM records for their items on their own websites. To facilitate this, the Bavarian State Library in Munich offers a query interface based on different parameters. For...
26 March 2015 – RISM online catalog
Wie kann man RISM Nachweise einbinden?
Viele kleinere Institutionen wie Bibliotheken, Archive, Privatbesitzer etc. verfügen nicht über einen eigenen Online-Katalog ihrer Bestände, wollen aber die Einträge ihrer Bestände bei RISM auf der ihrer Website präsentieren. Dazu bietet die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München, eine Query-Schnittstelle an, die zuletzt so erweitert wurde, dass nach RISM Bibliothekssigeln gefragt werden kann....
26 March 2015 – New at RISM
Opera premieres from Vienna to Paris
Two rarely-heard operas are enjoying premieres now - and there are interesting sources for both in RISM. Performances of Gli uccellatori (The Birdcatchers) by Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729-1774) started yesterday at the Theater an der Wien. There are three sources for the overture in the RISM online catalog, two in...
23 March 2015 – Events
