News archive – New publications
New on our Bookshelves: The Basset Horn in Italy
Last year Adriano Amore released his eighth publication about clarinets in Italy, Il Corno di bassetto in Italia. The book’s eight chapters serve as a comprehensive survey, starting with questions of terminology and reaching to a discography. The chapter with quotations about the basset horn range from Francescos Antolini’s La...
14 June 2021
Rediscovering Eugène Ysaÿe
We have received the following from Marie Cornaz (RISM Belgium, Section de la Musique - Muziekafdeling, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique - Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België): We have to pleasure to inform you about the publication of a biography on the violinist, pedagogue, composer, conductor and concert organizer Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931),...
31 May 2021
Creating Your Own Catalog Printout from the RISM Database
Musicologists and librarians working on diverse projects frequently approach the Editorial Center to have RISM records gathered and printed as a separate catalog. Such catalogs may be needed for all sorts of reasons: to publish a printed catalog of the holdings of a collection, to provide funding agencies and sponsors...
17 May 2021
The 2020 Annual Report
The 2020 annual report for the RISM Central Office has now been published. You can read the report in its entirety on the RISM website. Here are some of the highlights: The year 2020 brought an important change for RISM: Klaus Keil, who had served as director of the Zentralredaktion...
30 March 2021
Two Books about Music at the Salzburg Cathedral Now Online
The newest issue of Fontes Artis Musicae caught our eye because it contains reviews of two recent publications involving our RISM Salzburg working group. Dommusikarchiv Salzburg (A-Sd). Thematischer Katalog der musikalischen Quellen, Reihe A. Edited by Eva Neumayr and Lars E. Laubhold with Ernst Hintermaier, RISM Arbeitsgruppe Salzburg. Vienna: Hollitzer...
1 March 2021
Joseph Bologne's "L’Amant Anonyme"
Joseph Bologne de Saint-Georges was born 275 years ago, on December 25, 1745 – or perhaps in 1739, as documentary sources are conflicting. Regardless, we are celebrating his music with this guest post by the editors of a new critical edition of Joseph Bologne’s “L’Amant Anonyme”, the composer’s only surviving...
7 December 2020
New Book about Music in Stams Abbey, Austria
We have received the following from Hildegard Herrmann-Schneider (RISM Tirol-Südtirol & OFM Austria): New publication: Wo die Engel musizieren. Musik im Stift Stams The RISM catalog currently (August 2020) contains over 8,300 records from the Music Archive of the Cistercian Abbey in Stams, Tyrol (RISM siglum: A-ST). Hildegard Herrmann-Schneider, responsible...
31 August 2020
Free Access to "Fontes Artis Musicae" through June 30
Project MUSE is offering free access to a number of scholarly journals in order to facilitate the use of high-quality scholarship during the COVID-19 crisis. As a result, articles in Fontes Artis Musicae, the journal of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML, one of the...
4 May 2020
The 2019 Annual Report
The 2019 annual report for the RISM Central Office has now been published. You can read the report in its entirety on the RISM website. Here are some of the highlights: New Board of Directors: President: Prof. Dr. Klaus Pietschmann, Mainz Vice President: Prof. Dr. Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl, Salzburg Secretary: Dr....
2 March 2020
Articles about Spanish printed music in the 16th century
Spanish below (thanks to Carmen Álvarez Escandell) Recently, we at RISM have read three interesting articles about Spanish printed music in the 16th century: “Printed polyphony acquired by Toledo Cathedral, 1532-1669” by Michael Noone, in Early Music Printing and Publishing in the Iberian World, ed. Iain Fenlon and Tess Knighton...
4 February 2020
