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Looking Back on 2016
The year 2016 was a big year for us: we released our long-awaited and well-received cataloging program Muscat, we invited thirteen colleagues to speak on the state of source research in Central and South America at the conference Documenting Musical Sources in Latin America, and we published another volume in...
12 January 2017
Weihnachtsgrüße 2016!
Die RISM Zentralredaktion wünscht Ihnen und Ihrer Familie ein frohes Weihnachtsfest und ein gutes Neues Jahr. Wir freuen uns auf die weitere Zusammenarbeit im kommenden Jahr! Abbildung: Historische Bildpostkarten - Universität Osnabrück - Sammlung Prof. Dr. Sabine Giesbrecht, via Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
22 December 2016
Welcome, Muscat!
Beginning today, Muscat is available to RISM contributors as a central cataloging program for musical sources. Muscat includes sources from the various RISM series A/I, A/II, and B/I, which are in one database for the first time after having previously been managed in separate places. The new Muscat program contains...
14 November 2016
Agreement Signed between ICCU, IAML Italy, and RISM
On July 7, 2016, the Protocol between ICCU, IAML-Italia and RISM (English starts on p.5) was signed. The partners agree to collaborate, through a working group, as follows: to recognize the importance of their institutional roles in light of the aims of international research about music resources in order to...
26 September 2016
New Library Sigla in Latin America
Three new countries in Latin America have been added to the RISM database of library sigla: • Costa Rica: Archivo Histórico Musical in San José (CR-SJahm) • Nicaragua: Fondo Histórico Documental de la Música Nicaraguense (FONMUNIC) in Managua (NIC-Mfmn) • Puerto Rico: Archivo General de Puerto Rico, Archivo de la...
19 September 2016
RISM at IAML, Part 1: Muscat – (almost) ready to go
For RISM insiders, Muscat will be the must-have item this fall! Our new cataloging program was a topic of discussion at the recent IAML congress in Rome. A group of developers has been at work for about three years to create a new cataloging program called Muscat, which will replace...
21 July 2016
Looking Back at 2015
The year 2015 is behind us, so we’d like take a moment to look at the stories that helped shape the past twelve months. We enjoyed a year full of thousands of new musical sources in the RISM database, exciting discoveries from our users, and fantastic new databases and digital...
14 January 2016
An Interactive Map of Musical Institutions in Belgium
Patrizia Rebulla of RISM Belgium has assembled a map of musical institutions in Belgium. The map lists libraries, archives, churches, and private collections throughout the country. You can explore the map below and on the website of RISM Belgium.
18 December 2015
Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722)
Johann Kuhnau – wasn’t he Johann Sebastian Bach’s predecessor as Thomaskantor in Leipzig? Correct, but are you also familiar with his compositions? Maybe not so much. Kuhnau became especially famous through his works for keyboard instruments, which included Musicalische Vorstellung Einiger Biblischer Historien (6 sonatas for harpsichord; Leipzig, 1700), Neuer...
23 November 2015
New RISM Working Group in Asia Founded
RISM is delighted to announce that a new working group in Asia has been founded. The working group RISM-Chinese Language Region was planned at a conference concerning the Collaborative Project on Chinese Music Resources (CPCMR) held in October 2015, which RISM director Klaus Keil attended. CPCMR was launched to promote...
16 November 2015
