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National anthems @RISM
How many national anthems do you know? The songs of 32 countries are resounding at the World Cup at the moment. The RISM online catalog offers numerous national anthems. The majority of the over 700 sources are recorded anonymously. Four of them are digitally available. The series A/I Individual prints...
16 June 2014
World Cup Kickoff with RISM Brazil
The World Cup kicks off today in São Paulo! Did you know that RISM has its own lineup in Brazil? We would like to introduce you to the RISM Brazil team players: The RISM Brazil group was reactivated in 2005 by André Guerra Cotta, Beatriz Magalhães Castro and Pablo Sotuyo...
12 June 2014
Celebrating 1,000 Facebook Fans!
Today RISM reached a new milestone: 1,000 Facebook fans! Thank you to everyone who has liked the RISM Facebook page! Where are our fans from? The top 10 countries are: Italy Grazie! Portugal Obrigada! Germany Danke! United States Thanks! France Merci! Spain !Gracias! Poland Dziękuję! United Kingdom Cheers! Netherlands Bedankt!...
6 June 2014
RISM and the R Projects
RISM is currently prominently featured on the website of the Music Library Association (United States). It appears alongside its sister projects: • Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) International Repertory of Musical Literature • Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM) International Repertory of Musical Iconography • Répertoire International de la Presse...
2 June 2014
New Coordinating Committee Elected
National RISM working groups as well as individuals and institutions that contribute to RISM projects can engage with the work of the RISM Zentralredaktion and strategic decisions of the board in a variety of ways. In order to formalize this participation, an Advisory Council is formed. Five representatives are elected...
22 May 2014
Consortium of RISM Working Groups in Austria
The Consortium of RISM Working Groups in Austria, which was founded in November 2012, met in Salzburg on June 19 at the International Mozarteum Foundation. One finds on the RISM Zentralredaktion’s website five independent working groups that are currently operating in Austria. There are also several individual projects being carried...
3 July 2013
"Zampa" by Hérold @ RISM
Ferdinand Hérold (1791-1833) was a composer of Alsatian descent. He received his first music lessons from his father Franz Joseph, who had settled in Paris in 1781 to teach piano. When he was around 16, Hérold was accepted to the Paris Conservatory and joined Etienne-Nicolas Méhul’s piano class beginning in...
3 June 2013
500 Days Since the Launch of the RISM Library Sigla Database
The RISM library sigla have been used to designate repositories of musical sources since the first publications were issued in the 1960s. The library sigla are made up of a country code followed by a library code. The latter is formed from a combination of abbreviations for the city and...
16 May 2013
First Phase of the RISM Ireland Database Launched
RISM Ireland is delighted to announce the launch of a new Irish-focused free-to-access database of pre-twentieth century musical materials held in repositories throughout the island of Ireland. The new Irish-focused RISM Ireland database and website was established by Dr Catherine Ferris (RISM Ireland/DIT Conservatory of Music & Drama) with the...
4 February 2013
New Tools for Kallisto in English
We are pleased to announce that there are a couple of new tools to assist our colleagues who use Kallisto in English. Kallisto is RISM’s software program for cataloging music manuscripts in series A/II, Music Manuscripts after 1600. The program is available at no charge from the Zentralredaktion to anyone...
1 August 2012
