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RISM at the 2023 IAML Congress in Cambridge, England
This year’s annual IAML Congress will take place in Cambridge, England and will mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the IAML UK and Ireland branch. Please look at the IAML Cambridge page on our website for the RISM events during the week: a RISM session, meetings of the...
13 July 2023 – Events
Muscat Cataloging Workshop in Krakow
A Muscat workshop led by Guido Kraus from the RISM Editorial Center took place from 13 to 15 June 2023 at the Chopin Institute in Krakow’s historic Old Town. A total of 16 people from different regions of Poland participated, many of them from Krakow. The workshop was held in...
6 July 2023 – Events
Il Simposio Fuentes para la investigación musical
From 7 to 9 June 2023, the Mexican organization Apoyo al Desarrollo de Archivos y Bibliotecas de México (Support for the Development of Mexican Archives and Libraries, ADABI) sponsored a three-day online symposium on sources for music research, Il Simposio Fuentes para la investigación musical. The symposium was organized by...
28 June 2023 – Events
A Numerical Riddle, or a Chronogram in a Musical Manuscript
We have received the following from Ewa Hauptman-Fischer (University of Warsaw Library, Music Department). It was originally published on the library’s blog and is reprinted here with kind permission. Anonymous vespers—Vesperae ex D (PL-Wu, shelfmark RM 5265), held in the Music Department of the University of Warsaw Library, is one...
22 June 2023 – Library collections
New RISM Coordinating Committee
RISM relies on its international partners and benefits from several structures in place to maintain a close relationship between RISM, its sponsoring societies, and its working groups. One of these bodies is the Advisory Council, whose membership includes all active RISM contributors around the world. Five members from Advisory Council...
15 June 2023 – New at RISM
Update on RISM Library Sigla
The first RISM library sigla were created in the 1950s during preparation for the publication of the first volume of RISM Series B, printed anthologies of the 16th and 17th centuries, which appeared in 1960 as B/I (Munich and Duisburg: G. Henle Verlag). The list of sigla that was published...
7 June 2023 – New at RISM
The Archivio musicale Luca Moretti in RISM
A new music collection in our database is the Archivio musicale Luca Moretti in Perugia, Italy. This private collection can be found under the RISM siglum I-PEmoretti (RISM Catalog | RISM Online). Luca Moretti is a violist and teaches music theory and solfeggio at the Conservatorio di Musica di Perugia....
1 June 2023 – Library collections
Margarete Voigt-Schweikert
Our series RISM A-Z takes us to Margarete Voigt-Schweikert (1887-1957), a composer who made a significant impact on her hometown of Karlsruhe. After initial lessons from her mother (piano) and her father (violin), she became one of the first pupils of the Munz Conservatory in Karlsruhe. She continued her studies...
26 May 2023 – RISM A-Z
RILM’s Global Digital Music Studies Conference in New York
In April 2023, RILM hosted a two-day conference in New York in honor of Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie’s career as the organization’s long-time director. The Global Digital Music Studies Conference aimed to “inspire new models for generating and disseminating musical knowledge with digital technologies that have the potential to engage and...
19 May 2023 – Events
New Translations for RISM Article on Wikipedia
The article about RISM on Wikipedia is now available in 16 languages, five more than when we last reported in 2019. The new languages are Farsi, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, and Slovenian. Thank you to our colleagues and the anonymous translators who wrote these! The five new languages join Catalan, Chinese,...
11 May 2023 – New publications
