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Polish Week, Part 3: Using the RISM Online Catalog's Filters with Monastic Collections
At the conference Klasztor i muzyka / Monasteries and Music, which we described in this space on Wednesday, our coworker Guido Kraus gave a paper entitled “Historical music sources of cloister holdings from different orders in German speaking countries. Repertories in comparison,” touching on musicological methods, statistics, geographical considerations, and...
26 June 2015
Polish Week, Part II: The Klasztor i muzyka / Monasteries and Music conference in Częstochowa
Our coworker Guido Kraus attended the international conference Klasztor i muzyka / Monasteries and Music from May 5 to 8, 2015 at the Jasna Góra monastery. The conference was sponsored by the Polish research project Hereditas Monasteriorum, which we reported on in this space on Monday. The conference was organized...
24 June 2015
RISM at the Music Encoding Conference, Florence, Italy
I (Jennifer Ward) attended the Music Encoding Conference in Florence, Italy, from 18-20 May 2015. The full program included 19 presentations and 11 poster sessions. The Music Encoding Conference was organized by the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI), a scholarly community whose main project is creating musical documents that are machine-readable....
17 June 2015
IMS/IAML Congress in New York, June 2015
Start spreading the news: RISM will be heading to New York to take part in the IMS/IAML Congress Music Research in the Digital Age, June 21-26, 2015. Please visit our table in the exhibits area during the breaks. In addition, you are invited to join us at the following events:...
15 June 2015
International Tuba Day on 1 May
Tomorrow, the first Friday in May, is International Tuba Day! This day recognizes “tubists in musical organizations around the world who have to go through the hassle of handling a tuba,” according to the official website. One of the most famous works for tuba is Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Concerto for...
30 April 2015
RISM Colloquium and Open House
We’re in our fourth month at our new office, and it’s time to celebrate! Join us April 23-24 for our RISM colloquium and open house. The colloquium will feature reports from working groups. Our colleagues from Austria, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Poland, South Korea, and the United Kingdom...
20 April 2015
Opera premieres from Vienna to Paris
Two rarely-heard operas are enjoying premieres now - and there are interesting sources for both in RISM. Performances of Gli uccellatori (The Birdcatchers) by Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729-1774) started yesterday at the Theater an der Wien. There are three sources for the overture in the RISM online catalog, two in...
23 March 2015
New research on copyists and watermarks
Colloquium: Researching Copyists and Watermarks in the Digital Age: Between Academic Specialization and Catalog Enrichment Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 6-8 October 2014 The study of copyists and watermarks is deeply rooted in the German tradition of researching historical musical sources. Both branches of research are descended from the practice of making...
2 March 2015
RISM at the MLA Conference - live stream
The 84th Annual Meeting of the Music Library Association will take place on February 25-28, 2015, in Denver, Colorado. Sarah Adams of the US RISM office will be participating in a plenary session entitled “Digital Musicology: the role of music library collections.” She will report on new developments in RISM....
26 February 2015
Christmas greetings
The RISM Central Office wishes you and your family all the best for a festive holiday season and a happy New Year. We look forward to working with you again in 2015. Photo credit: NYPL Digital Gallery
19 December 2014
