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Critical Editions of Unpublished Music Manuscripts from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (B-Bc)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 Every year an unpublished manuscript preserved in the library is published in the series “Collection du Conservatoire...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
A Most Excellent Selection of RISM Activities.
We humbly announce the Immediate Availability of a most excellent and outstanding booke of Activities & Diversions selected by the accomplished and consummate Editors of the Secretariat Central of RISM. Herein is offered for you a choice assortment of divertissements and meditations upon our most gentle art of Musike, the...
1 April 2019
RISM and Digital Musicology
The most recent issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries is a special issue called “Digital Libraries for Musicology,” and RISM is pleased to have an article in it: Keil, Klaus and Jennifer A. Ward. “Applications of RISM data in digital libraries and digital musicology,” “Digital Libraries for Musicology,”...
21 March 2019
A New Catalog of Works for Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz died 150 years ago tomorrow. Right in time for this major anniversary, a revised edition of the Catalogue of the Works of Hector Berlioz (originally published in 1987) has been released as a digital resource that is free online. D. Kern Holoman and Jonathan Minnick. Catalogue of the...
7 March 2019
New on our bookshelves: Three composing Franciscan monks
Three Franciscan monks from the 17th and early 18th centuries who were composers have piqued the interest of Ivano Bettin. Francesco Antonio Vannarelli (1615-1679), Francesco Antonio Urio (ca. 1631 - ca. 1719), and Francesco Maria Benedetti (1683-1746) were the focus of three smaller studies and some modern editions. At the...
4 March 2019
The 2018 Annual Report
The 2018 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: Total records: Our contributors from all over the world have worked hard this past year to catalog music manuscripts,...
25 February 2019
New Catalog of the Archivo Histórico de la Arquidiócesis de Antequera Oaxaca (Mexico)
We have received the following from Edgar Alejandro Calderón Alcántar (Conservatorio de las Rosas) and Anastasia Krutitskaya (ENES, UNAM), Morelia, Mexico: Anastasia Krutitskaya and Edgar Alejandro Calderón Alcántar. Repertorio de villancicos y cantadas del Archivo Histórico de la Arquidiócesis de Antedquera Oaxaca (cajas 49 y 50). Mexico City: Universidad Nacional...
11 February 2019
A Bilingual Chart of Common Chinese Instrument Names
The following post is by TSENG Tzu-Chia from the RISM working group Chinese Language Region: 2018/08 RISM-CLR Completed the Paper Presentation in 2018 IAML Annual Conference and Presented the “Bilingual Chart of Common Chinese Instrument Names” The 2018 IAML annual conference was held in Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix...
10 September 2018
Music from Stams Abbey (Austria)
The music archive of Stams Abbey is the musical treasure room of Tyrol. The collection contains several thousand music manuscripts and music printed editions, which fortunately have survived in the abbey despite repeated threats to their preservation. The significance of the archive, which has a research value that goes beyond...
20 August 2018
Musical Sources in the Salzburg Cathedral Archive (A-Sd)
We have received the following from Eva Neumayr (RISM Salzburg): A new thematic catalog of the musical sources in the archives of the Salzburg Cathedral (RISM siglum: A-Sd) has been published: Eva Neumayr and Lars Laubhold, eds., Thematischer Katalog der musikalischen Quellen des Dommusikarchivs Salzburg (A-Sd), Reihe A. Vienna: Hollitzer...
19 July 2018
