News archive – Events
Conference and Workshop: Works, Work Titles, Work Authorities: Perspectives on Introducing a Work Level in RISM
Dates: May 9-11, 2019 Location: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 2 55131 Mainz Registration: Registration form The conference is free and open to the public. Please help us plan by registering by 5 April 2019. Conference and Workshop: Works, Work Titles, Work Authorities: Perspectives on Introducing a Work...
14 March 2019
RISM at the Coding da Vinci 2018 Hackathon
RISM was one of the data providers at last year’s Coding da Vinci Rhein-Main Hackathon, which had participation from colleges and universities in Aschaffenburg, Darmstadt, Frankfurt am Main, Gießen, Mainz, Offenbach, Wiesbaden and Worms and was organized in part by the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek and Wikimedia Deutschland and supported by...
11 March 2019
Wedding Music by Melchior Franck
Since today is Valentine’s Day, we’re going to take a look at three pieces by Melchior Franck (ca. 1579-1639) that were written for weddings. Festive music composed especially for the occasion has unfortunately gone out of style today. Many bridal couples are instead quick to draw on the “Wedding March”...
14 February 2019
Upcoming RISM Events in Argentina and Italy
Thanks to the efforts of our colleagues in other countries, two events will enable the close study of musical sources: a workshop and an internship. Muscat Workshop Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina March 25-29, 2019 This workshop is being hosted by Leonardo Waisman and the Grupo de Musicología Histórica Córdoba...
28 January 2019
Call for Papers: Workshop/Conference on the Work Level in RISM
Libraries worldwide have been discussing work titles with increasing intensity. Transferring this idea to musical works seems particularly plausible at first glance, as the production of catalogs of works has a tradition of more than 100 years in musicology. However, especially in recent decades, the concept of the work itself...
10 January 2019
Happy Holidays 2018!
The RISM Central Office wishes you and your family all the best for a festive holiday season. We would like to thank you for your valuable work this year and we wish you all the best for a happy and successful 2019. Our office will be closed beginning December 24...
20 December 2018
Seminar Report: Notated Music in the Digital Sphere
Will there ever be a Google Books for music? Can motivic searches of a fugue be automated? Are partbooks plagued by iron gall ink deterioration lost forever? These were some of the questions posed last month in Oslo at the seminar Notated Music in the Digital Sphere: Possibilities and Limitations...
26 November 2018
Insights into the collections of the Heiligenkreuz Monastery (Austria)
We have received the following announcement from P. Roman Nägele OCist (Stift Heiligenkreuz, Austria). Only German: Einblicke in Sammlungen des Stiftes Heiligenkreuz - Musikpflege im Stift Heiligenkreuz Viel wertvolles Notenmaterial befindet sich im Musikarchiv des Stiftes Heiligenkreuz im Wienerwald (Niederösterreich). Der Leiter des Musikarchivs P. Roman Nägele OCist bemüht sich...
18 October 2018
Muscat Workshops in October 2018
RISM will be holding more Muscat workshops this week and next. Printed music will be at the focus of a Muscat workshop for the first time that will be held from 4–6 October 2018 in the RISM Central Office in Frankfurt. In total, 14 people from Germany and abroad have...
1 October 2018
Congress Diary from IAML Leipzig 2018
Four members of the RISM Central Office attended the annual congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres in Leipzig. In traditional Congress Diary style, we offer you some impressions from Leipzig with each contributor writing in their native language. Von Klaus Keil: Meine Aufgabe auf...
23 August 2018
