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Music for Maundy Thursday
Today, Maundy Thursday, marks the beginning of the Triduum Sacrum, the three holy days of the Lord’s passion, death and resurrection, and thus the climax of Holy Week. Traditionally, in the Roman Catholic liturgy, the organ plays for the last time in the Gloria of the Mass of the Lord’s...
6 April 2023 – Events
The series Fontes Musicae in Polonia
We have received the following from Tomasz Jeż (editor-in-chief of the series Fontes Musicae in Polonia): In 2015, on the occasion of commencing work on the research project entitled “The musical repertoire of the Society of Jesus in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1565–1773)” implemented by the University of Warsaw and financed...
30 March 2023 – New publications
Demestvo or Demestvennoe mnogogolosie: An Example of Early Russian Orthodox Vocal Polyphony
Our colleague Elena Chernova has created a critical edition of the music manuscript Add. MS 30063 from the British Library (GB-Lbl). The ceremonial illuminated manuscript dates from the time 1685 to 1710 and likely originally belonged to the choir of the Moscow Patriarch. It contains the repertoire of the singers...
23 March 2023 – Library collections
RISM Lecture on Mexican Sources Now Online
The series of RISM Lectures, originally conceived as in-person events, first came to be realized during the COVID-19 pandemic in virtual form. Its first two incarnations – dedicated to the music archives of the Cappella Sistina and the Bach collection of the Berlin States Library were held exclusively online. As...
16 March 2023 – Events
Annual Report 2022
While the work of the RISM Editorial Center in Frankfurt was not strongly affected by the diverse Corona restrictions, the gradual return to personal meetings at major conferences inevitably made the year 2022 a “Retour à la vie” for the entire RISM community. This enabled us to pay due tribute...
9 March 2023 – New publications
Alessandro Vessella (1860-1929)
Even through RISM has nearly 1,200 musical sources with his name, Alessandro Vessella RISM Catalog | RISM Online is probably known to only a few specialists. He was born in Alife in the Campania region of Italy and studied with Costantino Palumbo and Paolo Serrao at the conservatory in Naples....
2 March 2023 – RISM A-Z
Transcripts of Dramatic Musical Works in Full Score at the Library of Congress
We have received news of a new research portal at the Library of Congress from Susan Clermont (Music Division): A bibliography of over 600 transcripts of dramatic musical works in full score copied from original music manuscripts and early imprints for the Library of Congress’s Music Division between 1903 and...
23 February 2023 – Library collections
The Musical Public Domain in 2023
Every year, the public domain grows, enriching the pool of works that can be drawn upon to inspire creativity. In law, the “public domain” refers to works without copyright, usually because copyright has expired. In the European Union, the works of people who died in 1952 are now in the...
14 February 2023 – In the news
Tomás Vicente Tosca and the renewal of music in the 18th century
Antonio Ezquerro Esteban (ed.), Tomás Vicente Tosca y la renovación musical en el siglo XVIII, Universidad de Barcelona (2022), 392 p., ISBN: 978-84-9168-701-6. We are delighted to share with the entire RISM community the news about the re-publication of an 18th-century Spanish music treatise. The restrictions we all had to...
6 February 2023 – New publications
Best Paper Award to Luiz Mantovani for his article on a guitar sonata by Ferdinand Rebay
We have received the following from P. MMag. Roman Nägele OCist, head of the music archives of Heiligenkreuz Abbey: About a year ago, in January 2021, the Brazilian guitarist Luiz Mantovani visited Heiligenkreuz Abbey to prepare the first recording of Ferdinand Rebay’s Guitar Sonata No. 2 in E major; an...
30 January 2023 – Library collections
