News archive – New publications
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...
4 February 2020
Thematic Catalog of the Clam-Gallas Music Collection
We have received the following announcement concerning a new publication by our colleague Eliška Šedivá (RISM Czech Republic): Catalogus collectionis operum artis musicae comitis Clam-Gallas (ed. Eliška Šedivá, translation of the introduction by Andy Letham), Prague: National Library of the Czech Republic, 2018. 4 vols (1456 pp.), in: Catalogus artis...
7 November 2019
Johann Walter, Ecuador, Hilario Olazarán
We were happy when this very RISM-rich issue of IAML’s journal Fontes Artis Musicae crossed our desks, featuring the following articles: • “Johann Walter Werke Verzeichnis [JWWV]” by Robin A. Leaver • “The Music Manuscripts in the Church of San Francisco de Quito: An Undocumented Collection” by Jesus Estevez •...
28 October 2019
RISM's Wikipedia Articles Now Updated
The Wikipedia RISM articles in English and German have been updated to better reflect today’s structure of the project and the focus on the online catalog. The RISM article is available in a total of 11 languages: Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. The...
10 October 2019
Michele Pesenti: Complete works
The following first appeared in Bibliolore – The RILM Blog and is reproduced here with kind permission: In 2019 A-R Editions published Michele Pesenti: Complete works, a critical edition produced by an editorial team including a musicologist, a linguist, and a musicologist-performer. While earlier musicologists assumed continuities between frottola and...
12 August 2019
Critical Editions of Unpublished Music Manuscripts from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (B-Bc)
We have received the following from Olivia Wahnon de Oliveira (Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles): The Royal Conservatory of Brussels (B-Bc) is pleased to let you know about its critical editing work with Castejon-Music-Editions. Every year an unpublished manuscript preserved in the library is published in the series “Collection du Conservatoire...
12 June 2019
