News archive – Electronic resources
Una colección de patrimonio musical español
The following originally appeared on RILM’s Bibliolore blog and has been reprinted here with kind permission: The Fons de Música Tradicional at the Institució Milà i Fontanals (CSIC-IMF) in Barcelona has more than 20.000 melodies, copied on paper, collected between 1944 and 1960 throughout Spain; most of them were compiled...
3 December 2015
The Dutch Song Database
The Dutch Song Database is a resource for song texts in Dutch, Flemish, and Frisian from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century. The database, which was launched last year, contains descriptions for over 170,000 songs. Links to song text transcriptions, notated music, and sound recordings are included if available....
19 November 2015
Music in Southwest German Courts
After sharing an announcement last week about a conference on court music in Dresden, we’d like to invite you on a journey south and take a look at Südwestdeutsche Hofmusik - Music in Southwest German Courts. The goal of this project, which started in 2006 and is funded by the...
2 November 2015
American Vernacular Music Manuscripts
We received the following announcement from AMS-Announce: Center for Popular Music Launches American Music Manuscripts Website The Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University announces the launch of its American Vernacular Music Manuscripts (AVMM) website. Built as part of a three-year project funded by the National Endowment for...
6 July 2015
The Choir Library of St. Mary's in Lübeck, 1546-1674
Announcing the publication of a new database by Kerala J. Snyder (Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester): The Choir Library of St. Mary’s in Lübeck, 1546-1674: A Database Catalogue Snyder writes, “While Petrus Hasse, Franz Tunder, and Dieterich Buxtehude were serving as organists of St. Mary’s Church [Marienkirche], its...
11 June 2015
The Full English: Digitized English Folk Manuscripts
There is a new digital resource for English folk manuscripts: The Full English “The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) and its partners present the world’s largest online collection of English folk manuscripts. “Freely explore 80,000 pages of traditional songs, dances, tunes and customs from the golden age of...
13 May 2015
A Peek Inside Beethoven's Workshop
The large-scale research project Beethovens Werkstatt (Beethoven’s Workshop), which is based at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn and the Musicology Seminar in Detmold and Paderborn, is a project coordinated by the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz (also the main sponsor of the RISM Zentralredaktion). The research team, now...
4 May 2015
Introducing the Ewha Music Data Base (EMDB)
The following is by Hyun Kyung Chae, director of RISM South Korea: The Ewha Music Research Institute (EMRI) recently completed a 3-year project to establish a database of East Asia’s Educational Music Documents in October 2014. The result, Ewha Music Data Base (EMDB), now showcases the EMRI’s work of collecting...
14 April 2015
‘Crown jewels’ of English lute music go online
The following news has reached us from the University of Cambridge (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0): Handwritten copies of scores by composers of English lute music have been digitised in a programme to make a precious legacy available to professional and amateur musicians around the world. Cambridge Digital Library is launching a...
10 February 2015
New online resource with the Map of Musical Heritage in Spain
The following has reached us from Jon Bagüés, ERESBIL-Basque Archives of Music: The Music and Dance Documentation Center of the Ministry of Culture of Spain, with the help of AEDOM, the Spanish Branch of IAML (Project AMA) and RISM-Spain, presented last November a map of 350 Spanish public institutions (archives,...
19 January 2015
