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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
Arias Identified in Dresden Royal Private Music Collection
Our colleague Roberto Scoccimarro from the SLUB in Dresden (D-Dl) brings us the latest from the Dresden Court Music project. Arias in the Royal Private Music Collection are full of exciting surprises, allowing us to identify composers and put stray arias back with their operas. One example is a manuscript...
26 May 2015 – Library collections
Printed Music (A/I and B/I) now in RISM's Online Catalog
RISM is pleased to announce a major addition to its free online catalog that strengthens its utility as a resource for the documentation of printed music. Two of its major publications have been added to the online catalog and are freely available online for anyone to search at opac.rism.info and...
21 May 2015 – RISM online catalog
Lucia Facchinelli
Today, F is for Lucia Facchinelli, an Italian singer who flourished between 1724 and 1739. Very little is known about her; of the major reference works she receives only 11 lines in the New Grove Dictionary of Opera and just a few more in the Großes Sängerlexikon. The soprano’s first...
18 May 2015 – RISM A-Z
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
