News archive – New at RISM
New (and first) Library Siglum for Armenia
At RISM we regularly receive requests from scholars, archivists, and librarians for new library sigla to be created. In the course of our daily work, we also stumble upon institutions for which we have no siglum. Such was the case when we read about the Aram Khachaturian Museum in Yerevan,...
5 February 2018
New RISM Coordinating Committee
RISM relies on its international partners and benefits from several structures in place to maintain a close relationship between RISM, its sponsoring societies, and its working groups. One of these bodies is the Advisory Council, whose membership includes all active RISM contributors around the world. Five members from Advisory Council...
29 January 2018
Looking Back on 2017
Last year, we enjoyed sharing news with you from the world of musical sources: discoveries, rediscoveries, new resources, and more. Let’s take a moment to look back on the stories from 2017 that were the most popular: Musical Anniversaries in 2017: Glad you liked it! Here’s...
11 January 2018
Weihnachtsgrüße 2017!
Die RISM Zentralredaktion wünscht Ihnen und Ihrer Familie ein besinnliches Weihnachtsfest und ein gutes Neues Jahr. Unser Büro bleibt vom 25.-29. Dezember geschlossen. Wir freuen uns auf die weitere Zusammenarbeit in 2018. Abbildung: Postkarte ca. 1900 aus der Furman University, Special Collections and Archives.
21 December 2017
RISM B/I (Recueils imprimés XVIe Siècles) Version 2.0 - A Report from the Central Office
Longtime RISM users know that expanded entries from series B/I (printed anthologies, covering the years 1500 to 1550) were added to the online catalog in 2015. Our student worker Martin Bierwisch has been working on revising these records since April of this year, funded through support from the Kulturfond der...
27 November 2017
One Year of Muscat
Muscat has been in use by the wider RISM community for one year! One year ago, RISM released its specialized cataloging program for describing musical sources to RISM contributors worldwide. Muscat provides users with a web-based, platform-independent program that can be used to describe music manuscripts, printed music, treatises, and...
16 November 2017
A small clutch of Schreivogel manuscripts
Thanks to a recent article by Michael Talbot, the RISM database has a nice, small collection of seven works by Johann Friedrich Schreivogel (born ca. 1690, fl. 1707–1749). Schreivogel’s known works consist of two, maybe three sonatas and three concertos at the Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SLUB) in...
6 November 2017
Twelve More Women Composers
This past International Women’s Day, 8 March 2017, we published a list of the 800 women composers who have sources in the RISM database. The RISM online catalog grows continuously, and in June we added eight more names to the list. Much has happened since June, and we are pleased...
19 October 2017
New Insight on Maurice Greene's Italian Vocal Music
A recent article by Michael Talbot has shed some light on the “Italian” vocal music of Maurice Greene (1696-1755) and has uncovered two previously overlooked works. Moreover, Talbot identified a handful of pieces that were previously anonymous in RISM. In “Maurice Greene’s Vocal Chamber Music on Italian Texts” (Royal Musical...
9 October 2017
John Field's Piano Nocturnes
The year 1812 brought the chaos of war to the European continent when Napoleon’s army went clear through Europe to Russia and reached Moscow. The outcome, as we know, was disastrous for the deuxième Grande Armée. It was the beginning of the end of Napoleonic rule in France and Europe....
11 September 2017
