News archive – New at RISM
New RISM Sigla for South African Institutions
The IAML Congress in Stellenbosch, South Africa, is underway. In anticipation of the congress, we have used the Directory of South African Music Collections by Santie de Jongh to update our sigla for South Africa. As part of our work to document musical sources worldwide, RISM assigns an abbreviation, called...
27 June 2024
RISM at the EarlyMuse meeting in Wrocław
EarlyMuse is a Europe-wide scientific network that aims to strengthen the place of early music research in Europe. It forms part of the program for European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST Action) meant to fund not research per se, but rather scientific collaborations such as conferences, training schools, and...
20 June 2024
Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae and RISM
RISM was invited to a workshop entitled “Mapping and Harmonizing Metadata and Normed Data” on March 14 and 15, 2024, hosted by the Orient-Institut Istanbul and led by participants of the project Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae (CMO). The CMO project produces critical editions of Near Eastern music manuscripts alongside a source...
13 June 2024
Musical Sources of the 19th century in Germany
Last fall we called your attention to a symposium held at the Bavarian State Library in Munich to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of RISM’s German working group. The title – “Musical Sources of the 19th Century in Germany: Challenges and Opportunities” – promised less an overview of...
8 May 2024
Needles in the Haystack: Correcting Errors in RISM’s Music Incipits
While RISM has been a showcase for large-scale cooperation from its very foundations over seventy years ago, this predominantly affected the cataloguing of primary sources all around the globe by our international working groups. In the past few years, however, the RISM Editorial Center has been increasingly involved in institutional...
25 April 2024
Vicente Lusitano in RISM
An article last year in Early Music America entitled “Vicente Lusitano – A Legacy Recovered” by Garrett Schumann reminded us of how important it is to ensure that musical sources of underrepresented composers are more visible in the digital environment. Vicente Lusitano (ca. 1522-after 1561) was a Portuguese composer and...
11 April 2024
News from the Czech RISM Working Group
In the field of musicology and music documentation, the most important contributions of the Music Department of the National Library of the Czech Republic involve the cataloging of musical sources in the RISM database. Most of this work forms part of a project supported by the Ministry of Culture of...
21 March 2024
Paper and Copyists in Viennese Opera Scores, 1760–1775
The following guest post is by Martin Eybl (Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Interpretationsforschung, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Austria): Hundreds of works by Haydn, Gluck, and other Viennese composers are only known from manuscript copies prepared by their contemporaries. As a rule, such manuscripts are undated, which makes...
7 March 2024
The Project "RePIM – Repertorio della Poesia Italiana in Musica, 1500-1700"
The following guest post is by Giovanna Casali (Università di Bologna, Italy): On 16 November 2023, a study day entitled “Due gemelle nell’aria e nel sembiante”. Archivi e repertori della lirica poetica e musicale del Cinque-Seicento was held at the University of Bologna, more precisely at its Department of Cultural...
1 February 2024
More Italian Manuscripts Published from the ICCU Dataset
As early as September 2021 we published source descriptions RISM had taken over from the Italian union catalog maintained by ICCU. For details, see our report “ICCU and RISM: An Immense Number of Records”. This time we are happy to report on the publication of more than 16,000 records representing...
14 December 2023
