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Conference: Jommelli, Gluck and Avondano: On the occasion of their 300th anniversary
From the CEMSP–18th Century Musical Studies Center in Portugal: To celebrate its first year of activity, CEMSP organizes an international conference on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Avondano, Gluck and Jomelli. June 20-21, Queluz National Palace For more information, see the website of the CEMSP or contact cesmpqueluz@yahoo.com.....
10 June 2014 – Events
Celebrating 1,000 Facebook Fans!
Today RISM reached a new milestone: 1,000 Facebook fans! Thank you to everyone who has liked the RISM Facebook page! Where are our fans from? The top 10 countries are: Italy Grazie! Portugal Obrigada! Germany Danke! United States Thanks! France Merci! Spain !Gracias! Poland Dziękuję! United Kingdom Cheers! Netherlands Bedankt!...
6 June 2014 – New at RISM
Blog roundup
Manuscripts, modern editions, and eighteenth-century printed music–RISM likes it all. Read on for what has caught our attention recently: • Trouvère songs online New additions to Digitised Manuscripts at the British Library Egerton MS 274 is now online (see photo, left, taken from f.27v), “a little anthology written in the...
5 June 2014 – New publications
Carlo Broschi (Farinelli)
Carlo Broschi (1705-1782), known to most people as Farinelli, was the celebrated Italian castrato who was widely admired all across Europe. RISM has around 150 sources mentioning him as a singer, including arias, operas, duets, and a cantata. Farinelli also composed a little: there are nine pieces attributed him in...
4 June 2014 – RISM A-Z
Five chant databases
The new issue of the Journal of the American Musicological Society has reviews of five chant databases: • Cantus Planus Regensburg • Corpus Antiphonalium Officii-Ecclesiae Centralis Europae • CANTUS: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant • Global Chant Database • The CANTUS Index Link to article: Alison Altstatt, Journal of...
3 June 2014 – Electronic resources
RISM and the R Projects
RISM is currently prominently featured on the website of the Music Library Association (United States). It appears alongside its sister projects: • Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) International Repertory of Musical Literature • Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM) International Repertory of Musical Iconography • Répertoire International de la Presse...
2 June 2014 – New at RISM
Wagner exhibit in Bamberg
The latest edition of the Bibliotheksforum Bayern has a wonderfully illustrated article about last year’s exhibition about Richard Wagner at the Staatsbibliothek Bamberg (D-BAs). The library marked the occasion of both the 200th anniversary of Wagner’s birth and the 130th anniversary of his death with displays of rare music materials,...
30 May 2014 – Library collections
Listen to the world's oldest piano
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: “Dongsok Shin performs the Sonata in d minor, K.9 by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) on the earliest known surviving piano, made by the instrument’s inventor, Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731), in Florence, 1720. Scarlatti’s keyboard compositions were performed on both the harpsichord and the...
28 May 2014 – Rediscovered
Minna Brandes
Today, the letter B stands for Minna Brandes (1765-1788), a German composer and singer whose compositions attracted attention mainly because she died so young. She was born in Berlin to a theatrical family and died only 23 years later in Hamburg. As a singer, actress, and fortepianist, she was well...
27 May 2014 – RISM A-Z
CFPs: Upcoming Conferences
Attention musicologists and performers! Three conferences of interest have reached us via the AMS: 1st International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop (DLfM 2014) Incorporating the Transforming Musicology Challenge 12th September 2014 (full day), London, UK in conjunction with the ACM/IEEE Digital Libraries conference 2014 Paper submission deadline: 27th June 2014...
25 May 2014 – In the news
