News archive – Events
Muscat Workshop in Vienna
The following news has reached us from Stefan Engl (President, IAML Austria): A Muscat workshop took place in Vienna on 17 October 2017 in the new facilities of the Education Department at the Austrian National Library. The leader of the workshop was Dr. Ikarus Kaiser, organist of Wilhering Abbey and...
23 October 2017
Muscat Workshops this Fall
Muscat, RISM’s specialized software for cataloging musical sources, now has nearly 200 users. We continue to gain new contributors each month. Workshops are important ways of introducing contributors to the fundamentals of cataloging with RISM. This fall, four workshops will take place in three countries: Muscat Workshop at the Fryderyk...
25 September 2017
Riga, RISM, Līgo
Four people from the RISM Central Office attended the annual IAML Congress in Riga, Latvia in June 2017. The following is a congress diary from all four participants that was originally published on the IAML website. In keeping with the Congress Diary tradition, the reflections are presented in the native...
27 July 2017
Mark the Music! Uncovering Musical Sources in Sweden
Last month, the week before the IAML Congress in Riga, the Svenska musikbiblioteksföreningen (the Swedish branch of IAML) hosted a course called Mark the Music — a course for librarians working with music. Pia Shekhter (University of Gothenburg’s Music and Drama Library) invited me (Jennifer Ward) to give a presentation...
24 July 2017
RISM at the IAML Congress in Riga
RISM is heading to the Baltic coast this month to participate in the annual congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres. From 18-22 June 2017, we will see our colleagues around the world at the stunning National Library of Latvia in Riga. As usual, RISM...
12 June 2017
Exhibition: Baroque Musical Life in Grimma, Saxony
This post is by Andrea Hartmann of RISM Germany–Dresden Office: We would like to call your attention to a small exhibition that is part of this year’s festival of Baroque music in Grimma (near Leipzig), Tage Mitteldeutscher Barockmusik. As the hart panteth after the water brooks – Music in Grimma...
22 May 2017
Presentations from Latin America Conference Now Online
The RISM Central Office hosted a conference entitled “Documenting Musical Sources in Latin America” on September 15, 2016. We invited respected musicologists and librarians from throughout Latin America to report on the current state of describing sources in their countries and the state of research on cultural exchange. These presentations...
18 May 2017
RISM at the IMS Congress in Tokyo
I (Jennifer Ward) attended the International Musicological Society (IMS) congress in Tokyo from March 19 to 23, 2017, supported by a grant from Bibliothek & Information International/Goethe-Institut. The congress was hosted by the Tokyo University of the Arts and revolved around the theme Musicology: Theory and Practice, East and West....
20 April 2017
RISM at the International Musicological Society Congress in Tokyo
RISM will be represented at the 20th Congress of the International Musicological Society in Tokyo next week, from March 19 to March 23, 2017. The theme of the congress is Musicology: Theory and Practice, East and West. The IMS, along with IAML, co-sponsors the 4 R projects (RISM, RILM, RIdIM,...
13 March 2017
International Women's Day: Women Composers in RISM
Note: We updated this list in 2021. Today, March 8, is celebrated around the world as International Women’s Day. Among many other things the organizers support “a call to action for accelerating gender parity.” In music, as we know, women musicians have struggled throughout history to be as visible as...
8 March 2017
