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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
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
