News archive – New at RISM
RISM Survey
The RISM Central Office is carrying out a survey about our online catalog, which is available free of charge at www.rism.info and opac.rism.info. We would like to find out who our users are, what their expectations are, and how they use the catalog. The survey is anonymous and responses will...
30 October 2014
New (and first) siglum for Monaco
At the beginning of June 2014, the first RISM library siglum for the Principality of Monaco was created: MC-MCpgil, for the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco-Ville. The heart of the collection is made up of songs of Irish-American origin and Irish books. Many of the music scores were collected...
6 October 2014
On the Trail of the Music at the Dresden Court
The following article is by Nina Eichholz and was originally published on the SLUBlog. We are publishing it here with the kind permission of the SLUB Dresden. The second SLUB project began one year ago to catalog its valuable music materials from the time of the Saxon-Polish union (1697-1763). Financed...
1 September 2014
Music Migrations in the Early Modern Age: the Meeting of the European East, West and South
The MusMig (Music Migrations) project is a three-year project funded by the Joint Research Programme “Cultural Enconters” of HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area). It seeks to document the movement of music and musicians in the east, west, and south of Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Musicians...
25 August 2014
Cats in Music
Today is International Cat Day! With RISM, you can find all the music you need to celebrate in style. If International Cat Day had started 200 years ago, musicians could have enjoyed these pieces, from RISM series A/I (printed editions before 1800): • Charles Dibdin: The cat, a new song...
8 August 2014
RISM at IAML, Part II
As we wrote in this space on Wednesday, RISM reported on its activities at the IAML conference in Antwerp. Klaus Keil and Jennifer Ward from the RISM Zentralredaktion were present to share news from the Central Office. Highlights include: There is a new Board of Directors and a new Coordinating...
1 August 2014
RISM at IAML, Part I
The International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML), a co-sponsor of RISM, held its annual meeting in Antwerp, Belgium from 13-18 July 2014. Members of three national groups presented during the RISM Open Session. Marie Cornaz (RISM Belgium, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Brussels) RISM in Belgium –...
30 July 2014
Congratulations to our RISM colleague Dieter Kirsch (Würzburg)
Congratulations to our RISM colleague Dieter Kirsch (Würzburg), who was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg. He was recognized for his contributions to research in the areas of the musical history of Mainfranken (Bavaria) and the history of the Hochschule and its forerunners. In a...
28 July 2014
RISM would like to hear your opinion!
RISM will be conducting user studies at the IAML conference in Antwerp in order to learnwhat people think about the online catalog of musical sources and what search strategies are used so that we can improve our services. Whether you are a music librarian or a student, a database pro...
10 July 2014
Who will be King Soccer?
The RISM online catalog already knows the answer! Take a look at Koning voetbal (King soccer). Willi Schootemeijer was inspired by a match between the Netherlands and Belgium in 1934 and wrote this march. Koning voetbal is the most famous of his ca. 50 marches. RISM unfortunately does not have...
9 July 2014
