News archive – New at RISM
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
Neue CD: Die Orgel von Johann Konrad Wörle
Diese Ankündigung sandte uns Hildegard Herrmann-Schneider von RISM Landesleitung Tirol-Südtirol & OFM Austria: Neue Klangpremieren: Präsentiert wird Musik aus der Biblioteca dell’Accademia nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana in Rom (I-Rli), der Biblioteca nazionale centrale in Rom (I-Rn) und der Santini-Bibliothek in Münster (D-MÜs) auf einer Orgel des Tiroler Orgelmachers Johann...
22 October 2015
Music, musicology, libraries: An intern's report
We just said farewell to our intern Anne-Marie Wurster, who spent five weeks with us here at the the RISM Central Office in Frankfurt. She has submitted this reflection of her time here: At the intersection of musicology and librarianship - that’s right where I wanted to be. And that...
7 October 2015
Announcing a New RISM Working Group in Poznań, Poland
A new RISM working group was founded this past June at the Institute for Musicology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Under the direction of Dr. habil. Alina Mądry and with the support of Dr. habil. Magdalena Walter-Mazur, the new RISM group in Poznań will work with interested...
31 August 2015
The Start of Bohemian Watermark Research in the RISM Working Group in Prague (National Library of the Czech Republic)
This report has come to us from Eliška Šedivá, RISM Czech Republic: A year ago we started to develop a proper and systematic method for researching watermarks as an important indication of the provenance and time determination of musical sources. Furthermore, we believe that correct watermark description and identification can...
24 August 2015
Results of the RISM User Study, Part IV: Your Comments - Libraries, Coverage, and Completeness
The week concludes with another close look at the comments you made in the recent RISM survey. “I just wish some very important institutions like A-Wgm [Vienna, Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde] were also listed.” - Respondent 135 The core of this question came up often, variously naming specific institutions such as...
14 August 2015
Results of the RISM User Study, Part III: Your Comments - Chronological Limits
Today, we’re continuing the conversation about comments we received from the recent RISM survey. On Monday we talked about countries represented in RISM and secondary literature. Today: “Do you still have the cataloging limit of 1850?”- Respondent 372 “I thought you were limited to sources up to a certain date...
12 August 2015
Results of the RISM User Study, Part II: Your Comments - Coverage in RISM and Citing Literature
We received hundreds of comments in our recent survey of the online catalog. We are carefully considering each one of them and would like to take some time to address some of the larger issues raised. Today we are talking about coverage in RISM and citing literature. Later this week,...
10 August 2015
Work on Lambach Abbey Halfway Done
Frank van der Lecq of the Netherlands describes his work cataloging the collection of Lambach Abbey (A-LA) for RISM: Cataloging the music collection of the Benedictine monastery Lambach Abbey (A-LA) in Austria is almost halfway completed. Only small details need to be added to the instrumental music and the masses....
20 July 2015
