News archive – Electronic resources
Finding Unica in the RISM Database
At the recent IAML Congress in Cambridge the issue of unica was addressed in diverse contexts. The British Library, for example, expressed an interest in coordinating its digitization projects with other institutions, including internationally, in the hope that new additions to their digital collections could be unique contributions. When speaking...
31 August 2023
New Portal: Between Chopin and Tellefsen. European musical treatises—universalism and national identity
We have received the following from the Fryderyk Chopin Institute: The new portal ‘Music treatises’ is available now! The project Between Chopin and Tellefsen. European musical treatises—universalism and national identity has been underway since November 2020 and will be carried out until October 2022. It aims to facilitate access to...
9 June 2022
Hensel Songs Online
We have received the following from Tim Parker-Langston, editor of Hensel Songs Online: Hensel Songs Online is an online resource that offers its users free access to the sheet music of Fanny Hensel’s complete Lieder collection. Launched in Winter 2021, the edition includes nearly a hundred songs that had yet...
13 May 2022
Chopin Heritage in Open Access
We have received the following from the Fryderyk Chopin Institute: 30,000 photographs, 500 first editions of Chopin’s works, more than 3,000 issues of 19th-century magazines, almost 1,000 hours of recordings, manuscripts, works, Fryderyk Chopin’s correspondence, hundreds of iconographic objects and works of art – the largest Chopin collection in the...
12 May 2022
Franz Liszt digital
Just eleven years ago at the opening of the international conference “Der ganze Liszt – Liszt-Interpretationen,” Prof. Dr. Detlef Altenburg lamented: “Even 125 years after his death, the works of Franz Liszt—unlike the oeuvres of Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy—have still only received insufficient scholarly attention...
2 May 2022
Rescuing Music Data: Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO)
Soon after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, it became clear to librarians, archivists, and other information professionals that the war was also a danger to digital collections stored on Ukrainian servers. Even as we wrote our blog post about projects of the Ukrainian RISM Working Group on March 2,...
22 March 2022
Frescobaldi Thematic Catalogue Online: New Edition
We have received the following from Alexander Silbiger (Professor Emeritus, Department of Music, Duke University): Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) was the first major composer in the history of Western music to concentrate on instrumental music. In quantity, his surviving keyboard works far surpass those of any predecessor or contemporary; he was...
22 November 2021
The Tasso in Music Project
We have received the following from Emiliano Ricciardi (Director and General Editor, Tasso in Music Project). The RISM catalog links to this project through the short title TiMP. The Tasso in Music Project is a public-access digital edition of the early modern musical settings of the poetry of Torquato Tasso...
13 September 2021
Venetian Music Online
The project Venetian Music Online began in 2016, sponsored by the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. The project focuses on “research on music in Venice and its historical territories, and the history of Venetian musical culture in its European dimension.” Results from the project will be published in the series...
28 June 2021
Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission
We have received the following from Anna de Bakker: Do you own a piece of a chant manuscript? Or perhaps you know about a manuscript page displayed in a choir room, or at a church or library? Then we are looking for you! Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission is an...
25 February 2021
