News archive – Electronic resources
MMM2 is Online, A Music Encyclopedia for the Central Rhine Region
Are you familiar with the online encyclopedia Musik und Musiker am Mittelrhein 2? It is a publication from the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für mittelrheinische Musikgeschichte e. V. and as of Saturday, October 20, the first 250 articles are freely available online at www.mmm2.mugemir.de. Numerous entries feature people who are the subject of...
29 November 2018
"Le lettere di Casa Ricordi online" Launches Today
The Archivio Storico Ricordi preserves the historical materials of one of the most significant music publishers of all time. For over 200 years, the Ricordi publishers have influenced Italian musical life not only through their publishing activities but also as impresarios, cultural supporters, and managers. The Archivio Storico Ricordi is...
5 November 2018
Musikverlagswiki: A Source for Dating Printed Music
Recently we told you about current bibliographic projects about Mozart and Clementi, which we learned about during this year’s IAML Congress in Leipzig. Today we’re sharing information about another resource we heard about in detail, from Sabine Koch (Leipzig University of Applied Sciences): the Musikverlagswiki (Music Publishers Wiki). We all...
11 October 2018
Bach Family Autographs Online
Have you ever seen Johann Sebastian Bach’s Art of the Fugue in the composer’s own handwriting? How about the St. Matthew Passion or the Well-Tempered Clavier? With the Bach Digital database, you have all this and more at your fingertips. If you’re not familiar with this resource, Bach Digital is...
16 April 2018
RISM's B/III (The Theory of Music) Now a Database
We have received this announcement from our colleague Christian Meyer: The catalogs of manuscripts described in RISM’s series B/III (The Theory of Music, 6 vol., Munich: G. Henle, 1961-2003), published online in 2001 through the Lexicon musicum Latinum (LML), is now available as a database. The HTML pages and the...
9 April 2018
The Music Printing History Online Museum
We stumbled upon this interesting online museum: Music Printing History. It details different technological aspects concerning printing music and is richly illustrated. You can see examples of the technology that brought about the historical printed music that RISM currently covers (to about 1800): woodblocks, movable type (image, left), and engraving....
12 March 2018
The new database Medieval Music Manuscripts Online
We received this announcement from Dominique Gatté and is posted with kind permission: We are excited to announce that the new database MMMOd (Medieval music manuscripts online database) is now online. musmed.eu In June 2017, I published an initial version of this database using Google Fusion Tables. The new database...
1 March 2018
The Digitized Fétis Collection at the Royal Library of Belgium
We have received this announcement from Kris De Baerdemacker (RISM Belgium/Royal Library of Belgium): The Royal Library of Belgium (B-Br) has recently digitized over 1,000 sources from the Fétis collection (more information in French and Dutch). Old prints from his music library are now available online and include treatises on...
18 December 2017
Morales Mass Book
We have received the following from Anna E. Kijas, Boston College Libraries: It is my pleasure to announce the Morales Mass Book, an open-access companion site to the First Book of Masses by Cristóbal de Morales (ca. 1550-1553), a Spanish composer at the Papal chapel in Rome. This site explores...
4 December 2017
Johann Adolph Scheibe (1706–1776) – A descriptive catalogue of his works
The following has reached us from Peter Hauge (Royal Danish Library): For the first time ever a detailed descriptive catalogue of Johann Adolph Scheibe’s works has been published as a database. Scheibe was very productive, not only as a composer – ranging from large-scale cantatas and oratorios to sinfonias, chamber...
30 November 2017
