News archive – New publications
“Catalog of the Music of the Diocese of Würzburg” published
From RISM Germany we bring you the following: At the end of 2014, Dieter Kirsch, former director and professor at the Hochschule für Musikin Würzburg, and who was most recently awarded an honorary doctorate from the same institution, has published the monumental Katalog der Musikalien der Diözese Würzburg (Catalog of...
5 February 2015
Vjera Katalinić: The Sorkočevićes, Aristocratic Musicians from Dubrovnik
As we mark the 280th anniversary of the birth of Croatian composer Luka Sorgo (1734-1789), Vjera Katalinić, the director of RISM Croatia, has published a new book about this family of musicians: Vjera Katalinić: Sorkočevići, dubrovački plemići i diplomati (The Sorkočevićes, Aristocratic Musicians from Dubrovnik). Zagreb: Muzički informativni centar, 2014....
13 October 2014
New (for us) publications from Belgium and the Netherlands
We have recently acquired four publications about Belgian and Dutch musical sources that we would like to share with you: • Gilbert Huybens and Leo van Buyten: “Willem Gommaar Kennis: (Lier 1717-Leuven 1789), leven en werk; zijn muzikale betekenis in de 18. eeuw.” Arca Lovaniensis. Leuven: Vrienden van de Leuvense...
5 September 2014
Axel Klein, O'Kelly - An Irish Musical Family in Nineteenth-Century France
A new book has been published by Axel Klein, who was our Ireland consultant when RISM presented An Evening of Irish Music in March 2014. O’Kelly - An Irish Musical Family in Nineteenth-Century France. Norderstedt: BoD, 2014, 493pp. ISBN: 978-3-7357-2310-9 As Klein writes: “This book describes the careers and the...
21 August 2014
Recent Publications about Music Manuscripts and Institutions
We (relatively) recently received two journal issues from the organizations that co-sponsor RISM, IAML and IMS. Both contain articles that discuss musical sources or institutions and could be of interest to the RISM community. They have been cataloged in Kallisto and can be cited by our RISM contributors. From Acta...
14 August 2014
Drew Edward Davies, Catálogo de la Colección de música del Archivo Histórico de la Arquidiócesis de Durango
A new thematic catalog has been published by Drew Edward Davies (Northwestern University) that documents for the first time the complete musical holdings of Mexico’s Durango Cathedral (MEX-Dc): Drew Edward Davies. Catálogo de la Colección de música del Archivo Histórico de la Arquidiócesis de Durango (Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones...
4 August 2014
Blog roundup
Manuscripts, modern editions, and eighteenth-century printed music–RISM likes it all. Read on for what has caught our attention recently: • Trouvère songs online New additions to Digitised Manuscripts at the British Library Egerton MS 274 is now online (see photo, left, taken from f.27v), “a little anthology written in the...
5 June 2014
Source Studies in Musical Culture
We would like to announce the recent publication of papers presented at a conference organized by the Department of Musicology of Adam Mickiewicz University and the Archdiocesan Archive in Poznań, Poland in September 2011: Alina Mądry and Magdalena Walter-Mazur, eds. Source Studies in Musical Culture. Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology 11....
25 March 2014
Collectio operum musicalium quae in Bibliotheca Kinsky adservantur
The Thematic Catalogue for the Kinsky Library’s Music Collection The music collection at the Kinsky Library, which is administered by the National Museum Library (CZ-Pn), was first examined in detail in 2010. More than one thousand individual musical documents dating from the end of the 18th and the first half...
26 November 2013
New Volume in RISM Series B
Hymnologica Slavica. Volume I. Hymnologica Bohemica, Slovaca (HBS), Polonica (HP), Sorabica (HS). Notendrucke des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts Compiled by Jan Kouba and Marie Skalická (edited by Gerhard Schuhmacher) (HBS), Karol Hławiczka and Leon Witkowski (revised and supplemented by Teresa Krukowski and Gerhard Schuhmacher) (HP), Jan Raupp (HS). G. Henle...
18 February 2013
