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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
Coronation Music
The coronation of Charles III will take place this Saturday in London’s Westminster Abbey. Music will of course play an especially important role. Traditionally, music at coronations is a combination of choral and orchestral pieces, and there is a mix of traditional and newer works. For nearly 300 years, Georg...
4 May 2023 – Events
The 240th Anniversary of Ignaz Holzbauer's Death (1711-1783)
Ignaz Holzbauer (1711-1783)—one of the most important representative of the Mannheim School—is particularly remembered for his German-language opera Günther von Schwarzburg. Two years after the premiere in Mannheim in 1777, he composed an Italian opera, La morte di Didone (1779), based on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio. A revision as...
27 April 2023 – Musical anniversaries
Call for Papers: Out of the Box! From Archives to Music History
The following was originally published on H-Soz-Kult and is shared here with kind permission: We welcome interdisciplinary submissions for the symposium “Out of the Box! From Archives to Music History”, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, November 9–11, 2023. Whether metaphor or an actual site, academic resource, or instrument...
20 April 2023 – Events
New Edition of Maddalena Casulana’s 'Primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci'
We have received the following from Laurie Stras: Musica Secreta are pleased to announce the publication of a new printed edition of Maddalena Casulana’s Primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice: Gardano, 1583; RISM Catalog | RISM Online). The edition was made possible by Laurie Stras’s rediscovery in October...
13 April 2023 – New publications
