News archive – Library collections
Polish Sources in RISM since 2017
The introduction of the RISM-specific Muscat cataloging program at the end of 2016 was met with great interest in the Polish working groups and cataloging projects. Since then, many new contributors have been trained and more than 5,000 additional records from Poland have been added to the RISM database. New...
18 July 2019
Musical Collections in the Jagiellonian Library Through the Ages
RISM is heading to Kraków this week for the IAML congress hosted by the Jagiellonian University. A full week is planned with congress sessions, excursions, and concerts, and a special highlight will be an exhibit in the Jagiellonian Library: From theoretical treaties to musical masterpieces – musical collections in the...
15 July 2019
Johann Baptist Wanhal and the First Viennese School
The following post originally appeared on the “In the Muse” blog from the Library of Congress and is by Paul Sommerfeld, who is currently updating the holdings of his library’s rich collection of printed music in RISM. The mention of late-eighteenth century Vienna frequently conjures thoughts of well-known composers like...
11 July 2019
Redesigned Music Archive in Heiligenkreuz Abbey
We received this post from Father Roman Nägele (RISM Austria, Heiligenkreuz Abbey): The Heiligenkreuz Music Archive is the central place for collecting printed music editions and audio equipment. The core of the collection is handwritten and printed music dating back to the first third of the 18th century. This makes...
6 June 2019
The Newly Adapted Music Archive at Heiligenkreuz Abbey
We received this post from Father Roman Nägele (RISM Austria, Heiligenkreuz Abbey): Music plays a considerable role in monastic everyday life. Not a day goes by without us coming into contact with music here. The abbey’s musicians pay - and paid - special attention to the presentation of the music...
28 February 2019
Close Cooperation between RISM and the Chopin Institute
RISM and the Fryderyk Chopin Institute (PL-Wbfc) are now working even closer together. On 5 February 2019, a meeting was held in Frankfurt where staff from the Chopin Institute in Warsaw and the RISM Central Office could discuss further details of their project (images, left). Since 2016, our colleagues at...
18 February 2019
New Sources from Canada in RISM
The following is by Becky Shaw (Dalhousie University): The Killam Memorial Library at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; CDN-Hu) is pleased to announce the addition of their music manuscripts and first edition publications to RISM. These materials are located within the University Archive collection at the Library and their...
21 January 2019
From Dresden to Moscow and back: Works from the SLUB relocated during the war will be digitized
The following is by Barbara Wiermann and originally appeared on the SLUB Dresden Blog of the Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden on 18 November 2018 (CC-BY): Top-class concerts, exhibitions, a jazz festival, readings, discussions, and congresses - the International Cultural Forum in St. Petersburg is bringing together thousands...
10 December 2018
Report on Electronic Data Delivery to RISM using the Moravská zemská knihovna v Brně (Moravian Library; CZ-Bu) as an example: Requirements, Procedure, and Description of the Collection
Over the past two years, the RISM Central Office has received a number of electronic data deliveries from Italy, France, the United States, and the Czech Republic, with the Czech delivery containing “only” 2,078 catalog descriptions of music manuscripts. The data in the file from the Moravská zemská knihovna v...
22 November 2018
New RISM Project in Colombia
We have received the following announcement from Dr. Rondy F. Torres López (RISM Colombia). English follows: Rondy Torres, doctor en musicología, profesor de la Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), ha iniciado un nuevo proyecto de catalogación de un fondo hasta ahora desconocido: la música del siglo XIX del archivo...
1 November 2018
