Works, Work Titles, Work Authorities: Perspectives on Introducing a Work Level in RISM
Conference and Workshop: Works, Work Titles, Work Authorities: Perspectives on Introducing a Work Level in RISM
The conference “Works, Work Titles, Work Authorities: Perspectives on Introducing a Work Level in RISM” took place May 9-11, 2019 at the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, in cooperation with the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Libraries worldwide have been discussing work titles with increasing intensity. Transferring this idea to musical works seems particularly feasible at first glance, seeing as the production of catalogs of works has a tradition of more than 100 years in musicology.
However, especially in recent decades, the concept of the work itself has been uncovered as a construct of the 19th century. In many cases, attention has been drawn to those genres that cannot be forced into a fixed form. This especially applies to operas, whose form can change from performance to performance. But it also concerns chamber music, which is sometimes presented in different versions and with different instruments, etc., when it is first published. The examples could easily be continued.
Nevertheless, work titles in libraries are an important tool with which musical sources, modern printed music, books about specific musical works, and audiovisual media can be given detailed cataloging and made available. RISM would therefore like to adopt this tool by introducing a work level. But RISM has more, and other, possibilities than an individual library does, because descriptions of sources from a wide variety of libraries can be found in the RISM database.
The conference and workshop was intended to enable a dialogue for the different points of view and expectations of musicologists and librarians and to develop solutions for RISM as a project between the two sides.
- Conference flyer (PDF)
- Presentations on RISM’s YouTube channel.
- Reports
- Kapsa, Václav. “Konference Works, Work Titles, Work Authorities: Perspectives on Introducing a Work Level in RISM.” Hudební věda 56, no. 2 (2019): 191-194.
- Köppl, Chantal. “Works, Work Titles, Work Authorities: Perspectives on Introducing a Work Level in RISM.” Kongressbericht, Gesellschaft für Musikforschung. 22 September 2019. Available online.
Program
Thursday, May 9
Registration
14:00–14:50 Welcome and Introduction
- Gabriele Buschmeier (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz): Welcome
- Klaus Pietschmann (Universität Mainz, RISM Board of Directors): Opening Remarks
- Klaus Keil (RISM Central Office): Work Titles in RISM, Planned Procedure, and Perspectives
Slides | Video on YouTube - Stephan Hirsch (RISM Central Office): Technical Aspects
Slides | Video on YouTube
14:50–15:30 Work Titles in National Libraries and Library Cooperatives (I)
Chair: Klaus Pietschmann (Universität Mainz, RISM Board of Directors)
- Constanze Schumann (Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek) and Jürgen Kett (Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek): Work Titles in the GND (Gemeinsame Normdatei, German Integrated Authority File)
Abstract | Video on YouTube - Caroline Shaw (The British Library): The Musical Work: Pragmatic Approaches to an Abstract Entity
Abstract | Slides | Video on YouTube
15:30–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–16:20 Work Titles in National Libraries and Library Cooperatives (II)
- Kevin Kishimoto (Stanford University, USA) and Trina Thompson (Independent Scholar, USA): Superworks, Subworks, and Works with Fuzzy Edges
Abstract | Video on YouTube
16:20–18:00 Workshop
Friday, May 10
9:00–10:00 Work Titles in National Libraries and Library Cooperatives (III)
Chair: Jürgen Diet (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)
- María Teresa Delgado Sánchez (Biblioteca Nacional de España): Standardization in the National Library of Spain: Name Authority Headings and Name-Title Authority Headings in Musical Works
Abstract | Slides - Maria Aslanidi (Ionian University, Greece) and Michalis Stefanidakis (Ionian University, Greece): The Library Reference Model and MARC 21 Format for Authority Data: A Case Study on the (Musical) Work Entity
Abstract | Slides | Video on YouTube - Nancy Lorimer (Stanford University Libraries, USA): A Multitude of Works: Modelling Musical Works in BIBFRAME
Abstract | Video on YouTube
10:00–10:20 Uses and Perspectives (I)
- André Guerra Cotta (UFF-CAPES/UNL-CESEM, Brazil): Considerations on the Work Level, International Standards and ISWC
Abstract | Video on YouTube
10:20–11:00 Coffee break
11:00–13:00 Workshop
13:00–14:20 Lunch buffet
14:20–14:50 Uses and Perspectives (II)
Chair: Laurent Pugin (RISM Switzerland, RISM Board of Directors)
- Katrin Bicher (SLUB Dresden, Germany), Andrea Hartmann (SLUB Dresden, Germany), and Sylvie Reinelt (SLUB Dresden, Germany): Work Authorites Workshop in SLUB/RISM
Abstract
14:50–15:30 Discussions in Digital Editions
- Kristin Herold (Universität Paderborn, Germany), Johannes Kepper (Universität Paderborn, Germany), and Kristina Richts (Universität Paderborn, Germany): MEI Metadata in RISM
Abstract | Video on YouTube - Peter Stadtler (Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe, Germany), Irmlind Capelle (Universität Paderborn, Germany), and Kristina Richts (Universität Paderborn, Germany): Creating Work Titles in the Context of Digital Musicological Editions
Abstract | Video on YouTube
15:30–15:50 Discussions in Other Projects (I)
Chair: Rodolfo Zitellini (RISM Switzerland)
- David Day (Brigham Young University, USA), Jeff Lyon (Brigham Young University, USA), and Greg Reeve (Brigham Young University, USA): Work Authority Records and the Application of Linked Data Models
Abstract | Video on YouTube
15:50–16:30 Coffee break
16:30–17:30 Discussions in Other Projects (II)
- Richard Smiraglia (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Institute for Knowledge Organization and Structure Inc., USA), Marnix van Berchum (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands), J. Bradford Young (Institute for Knowledge Organization and Structure Inc., USA), Andrea Scharnhorst (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands), and Ronald Siebes (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands): Composers and Musical “Works” in the Linked Open Data Cloud
Abstract | Video on YouTube - Andrew Horwitz (RILM Office, USA): RILM: Interlinking Metadata Across Music Research Collections
Abstract | Video on YouTube - Emmanuel Signer (King’s College London, UK): Ceci n’est pas un titre. Or: What We can Learn from Titles in Early Modern Printed Music
Abstract | Video on YouTube
18:00–19:00 Concert
Songs by Robert Eitner, Ella Adaïewsky, and Carl Banck
Yuliya Shein, soprano
Natalia Keil-Senserova, piano
Saturday, May 11
9:00–10:20 Composers and Their Work Titles
Chair: Balázs Mikusi (National Széchényi Library, Budapest; RISM Board of Directors)
- Daniel Boomhower (Dumbarton Oaks, USA): J. S. Bach, the Meanings of Print, and the Implications for Work Records
Abstract | Slides | Video on YouTube - Luca Lévi Sala (Université de Montréal, Canada): The Textual Tradition of Muzio Clementi’s Output: Consistency and the Problem of the Work Title
Abstract | Video on YouTube - Jacek Iwaszko (The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, Poland) and Marcelina Chojecka (The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, Poland): The “Work” in RISM within Projects of the Polska Cyfrowa POPC (2018-2020 and 2019-2021)
Abstract | Video on YouTube - Ulrich Leisinger (Mozart Institut/Digitale Mozart-Edition Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, Austria): Versions and Historic Titles of Instrumental Works by W. A. Mozart
Abstract | Video on YouTube
10:20–11:00 Coffee break
11:00–12:20 Issues with Special Genres (I)
Chair: Klaus Keil (RISM Central Office)
- Roland Schmidt-Hensel (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Germany): Work – Version – Individual Movement. Thoughts on Work Titles and Work-Level Records for Operas from the 18th and 19th Centuries
Abstract - Sonia Wronkowska (Polish RISM Centre, National Library of Poland): Parody or Contrafactum? Revising RISM Guidelines for Derivative Works of Music
Abstract | Slides| Video on YouTube - Gesa zur Nieden (Universität Mainz, Universität Greifswald (Germany) and Jonathan Gammert (Universität Mainz, Germany): Is it a Work? FRBR-based Work Concepts of Opera Pasticcios
Abstract - Andrea Zedler (Universität Bayreuth, Germany): Chameleons of Music History: Opere buffe and the Problem of Work Levels
Abstract | Video on YouTube
12:20–14:00 Lunch buffet
14:00–15:20 Issues with Sepcial Genres (II)
Chair: Barbara Wiermann (SLUB Dresden)
- Barbara Haggh-Huglo (University of Maryland, College Park, USA): Work Titles for Church Music: Chant, Polyphony, Sacred Keyboard Music, and Their Manuscripts to 1650, using Low Countries’ Repertory as Examples
Abstract | Video on YouTube - Drew Edward Davies (Northwestern University, USA): Quae est ista? Multi-Generational Responsory Collections from Mexico City
Abstract - Edgar Alejandro Calderón Alcantar (Conservatorio de las Rosas, Mexico): Reflections and Challenges for Cataloging Collections of Villancicos, Cantatas and Related Genres in Musical Archives and Libraries from New Spain
Abstract | Video on YouTube
