News archive – Library collections
Two sources, lots of material for research – the digital Annaberger Chorbücher
The two Annaberg choirbooks described below have been documented by the RISM working group in Dresden and are detailed in the RISM online catalog. The two manuscript collections can be found at the SLUB with the shelfmarks Mus.1-D-505 (link in RISM) and Mus.1-D-506 (link in RISM). The RISM records were...
28 July 2016
Women and music-making during the Bourbon Restoration
Emerson Morgan from the RISM US working group at Harvard University has written this article about a score newly cataloged for RISM, La naissance du sauveur (RISM ID no. 900022067). This manuscript of a unique Christmas cantata, authored by a woman composer and dedicated to a woman patron, offers a...
30 June 2016
The dating game
We bring you a post today by our colleagues at the MusiCB3 Blog of Cambridge University (CC-BY): What? Has MusiCB3 gone mad? TWO Valentine’s Day posts this year? Actually no. This is about a much more important topic – dating printed music. Now, I know this may not sound wildly...
29 February 2016
RISM Modern Monday: Marianne Teuscher (1903–2009), the "Queen Mum" of the Music Department
No, you’re not mistaken: the dates of birth and death for Marianne Teuscher are correct. She lived to the ripe old age of 106 and is quite likely the longest-lived person in the RISM database—and as the fifth and last person in our RISM Modern Monday series, she brings us...
8 February 2016
RISM Modern Monday: Composer Archives in RISM
In our series RISM Modern Monday, we mustn’t omit composer archives - collections of personal papers and/or manuscripts that are left to a library - particularly because they contain a large share of the twentieth-century musical sources that are documented in RISM. Processing these archival collections is done by the...
1 February 2016
Ausstellung in der Frankfurter Universitätsbibliothek zu Johann Andreas Herbst aus Anlass des 350. Todestags
Johann Andreas Herbst (1588–1666) und seine Notenbibliothek – Ein Zeugnis für Musikpraxis und Notendruckkunst Angeregt durch die feierlichen Krönungen von 1612 (Kaiser Matthias) und 1619 (Kaiser Ferdinand II) wurde 1623 der erste städtische Musikdirektor in Frankfurt am Main angestellt. Die Wahl fiel auf den aus Nürnberg stammenden und zuvor an...
28 January 2016
RISM Modern Monday: Mexican Music
Our third entry in our RISM Modern Monday series is by John G. Lazos, who contributes Mexican sources to RISM (Spanish follows): Mexican music is generally recognized as the music from the first decades of the twentieth century, a perception which was influenced by a twentieth-century Mexican cultural national ideology....
25 January 2016
RISM Modern Monday: Richard Strauss
The second part of our RISM Modern Monday series is dedicated to Richard Strauss (1864-1949), showing you again how sources in the RISM database extend well past the year 1800. Through a partnership with the Richard Strauss Institute, we have integrated their index of sources (RSQV) into the RISM database....
18 January 2016
RISM Modern Monday: Music Manuscripts in the Gustav Mahler-Alfred Rosé Collection
Did you know that music in RISM’s database extends beyond the year 1800? RISM has quite a bit from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Over the next few Mondays, we’ll put the spotlight on some of the newer pieces in the database. The first entry comes from Cheryl Martin (RISM...
11 January 2016
Manuscript Tablatures and Partbooks up to the 17th Century in the Bavarian State Library
The manuscript tablatures and partbooks of the Bavarian State Library (BSB) up to the seventeenth century are, in addition to early printed music and choirbooks, the third and final type of universal music collection owned by the dukes of Bavaria in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The collection includes two...
14 December 2015
