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Sofia Gubaidulina
Today’s installment of the series RISM A–Z takes a look at Sofia Gubaidulina, a Russian composer born in 1931. Wait, a living composer in RISM? Yes! While RISM has traditionally maintained an emphasis on music manuscripts dating from between 1600 and 1800, the unique configuration of individual national working groups...
29 June 2015 – RISM A-Z
Polish Week, Part 3: Using the RISM Online Catalog's Filters with Monastic Collections
At the conference Klasztor i muzyka / Monasteries and Music, which we described in this space on Wednesday, our coworker Guido Kraus gave a paper entitled “Historical music sources of cloister holdings from different orders in German speaking countries. Repertories in comparison,” touching on musicological methods, statistics, geographical considerations, and...
26 June 2015 – Events
Polish Week, Part II: The Klasztor i muzyka / Monasteries and Music conference in Częstochowa
Our coworker Guido Kraus attended the international conference Klasztor i muzyka / Monasteries and Music from May 5 to 8, 2015 at the Jasna Góra monastery. The conference was sponsored by the Polish research project Hereditas Monasteriorum, which we reported on in this space on Monday. The conference was organized...
24 June 2015 – Events
Polish Week, Part I: Music as Part of Monastic Heritage in Poland
It’s Polish Week at RISM! In a series of three posts, Guido Kraus will share his experiences at a recent conference he attended in Poland. He starts with the Hereditas Monasteriorum research project. The research project Hereditas Monasteriorum, initiated by Polish historians, deals with the special history of monasteries in...
22 June 2015 – New at RISM
RISM at the Music Encoding Conference, Florence, Italy
I (Jennifer Ward) attended the Music Encoding Conference in Florence, Italy, from 18-20 May 2015. The full program included 19 presentations and 11 poster sessions. The Music Encoding Conference was organized by the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI), a scholarly community whose main project is creating musical documents that are machine-readable....
17 June 2015 – Events
IMS/IAML Congress in New York, June 2015
Start spreading the news: RISM will be heading to New York to take part in the IMS/IAML Congress Music Research in the Digital Age, June 21-26, 2015. Please visit our table in the exhibits area during the breaks. In addition, you are invited to join us at the following events:...
15 June 2015 – Events
The Choir Library of St. Mary's in Lübeck, 1546-1674
Announcing the publication of a new database by Kerala J. Snyder (Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester): The Choir Library of St. Mary’s in Lübeck, 1546-1674: A Database Catalogue Snyder writes, “While Petrus Hasse, Franz Tunder, and Dieterich Buxtehude were serving as organists of St. Mary’s Church [Marienkirche], its...
11 June 2015 – Electronic resources
New RISM Brochure Now Available
A new version of the RISM brochure is now available. RISM: An Overview is a 14-page, full-color brochure in English and German that describes RISM’s goals, projects, and organization. It is available free of charge to anyone who is interested. The brochure is available as a PDF on our Publications...
8 June 2015 – New publications
The music world will sit up and take notice! On the new Urtext edition of Mozart’s Piano Sonata in A Major KV 331
This post is by the CEO of Henle Verlag and our very own RISM president, Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, and is reprinted from the Henle blog with kind permission. You presumably know Mozart’s A-major Piano Sonata KV 331 (with the “alla turca” rondo). One of the best-known sonatas, if not THE best-known,...
3 June 2015 – Rediscovered
Results of the RISM User Study, Part I: The Survey
We are currently going through the results of the first-ever RISM user study about the online catalog. An online survey with 62 questions was available from 30 October 2014 until 28 February 2015. Our goal is to get to know our users better (such as where they are from, what...
28 May 2015 – New at RISM
