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Vivaldi Embedded – Violin concerto by Brescianello turns out to be a pasticcio
The following article is by Karl Wilhelm Geck and was originally published on the SLUBlog. We are publishing it here with the kind permission of the SLUB Dresden. Once again, the digital Schrank No: II collection–with its Baroque instrumental repertoire of the Dresden Court Orchestra–has proven to be a reservoir...
11 August 2014 – Rediscovered
Cats in Music
Today is International Cat Day! With RISM, you can find all the music you need to celebrate in style. If International Cat Day had started 200 years ago, musicians could have enjoyed these pieces, from RISM series A/I (printed editions before 1800): • Charles Dibdin: The cat, a new song...
8 August 2014 – New at RISM
François Couperin
A recent study by Byron Sartain details the locations of some pieces by François Couperin: Byron Sartain, “The manuscript dissemination of François Couperin’s harpsichord music,” Early Music Vol. XLI, No. 3 (2013): 377-391 In the article, the author traced the current locations of Couperin’s harpsichord music and found 77 manuscripts...
6 August 2014 – RISM A-Z
Drew Edward Davies, Catálogo de la Colección de música del Archivo Histórico de la Arquidiócesis de Durango
A new thematic catalog has been published by Drew Edward Davies (Northwestern University) that documents for the first time the complete musical holdings of Mexico’s Durango Cathedral (MEX-Dc): Drew Edward Davies. Catálogo de la Colección de música del Archivo Histórico de la Arquidiócesis de Durango (Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones...
4 August 2014 – New publications
RISM at IAML, Part II
As we wrote in this space on Wednesday, RISM reported on its activities at the IAML conference in Antwerp. Klaus Keil and Jennifer Ward from the RISM Zentralredaktion were present to share news from the Central Office. Highlights include: There is a new Board of Directors and a new Coordinating...
1 August 2014 – New at RISM
RISM at IAML, Part I
The International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML), a co-sponsor of RISM, held its annual meeting in Antwerp, Belgium from 13-18 July 2014. Members of three national groups presented during the RISM Open Session. Marie Cornaz (RISM Belgium, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Brussels) RISM in Belgium –...
30 July 2014 – New at RISM
Congratulations to our RISM colleague Dieter Kirsch (Würzburg)
Congratulations to our RISM colleague Dieter Kirsch (Würzburg), who was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg. He was recognized for his contributions to research in the areas of the musical history of Mainfranken (Bavaria) and the history of the Hochschule and its forerunners. In a...
28 July 2014 – New at RISM
Francesca Caccini
The series RISM A–Z is moving on to the letter C, which today stands for the Baroque composer and performer Francesca Caccini (1587-c.1640). She was a musica in the Medici court in Florence from 1607 to 1627 and from 1633 to 1641: a composer, singer, instrumentalist, voice teacher, and concert...
24 July 2014 – RISM A-Z
Mozart autograph in the music collections of Mariastein Abbey, Switzerland
Starting in 2010, the music collections of the Abbey of St. Mary in the Rock (Mariastein; CH-MSbk) have been reorganized in the form of rebuilding the Musikarchiv and Notenbibliothek collections. A highlight of the collection is an autograph manuscript by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The online catalog is also available in...
18 July 2014 – Library collections
RISM would like to hear your opinion!
RISM will be conducting user studies at the IAML conference in Antwerp in order to learnwhat people think about the online catalog of musical sources and what search strategies are used so that we can improve our services. Whether you are a music librarian or a student, a database pro...
10 July 2014 – New at RISM
