News Archive
New at RISM: Muscat Workshop with Guido Kraus in L'viv (12-14 February 2019)
We have received the following from Angelika Moths: Initiated by the Haliciana Schola Cantorum (HSC), a Swiss association for the promotion of culture in Western Ukraine, an international musicology symposium called "Ex umbra in solem" was held at the Ukrainian Catholic University in...
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New at RISM: 17th-Century Printed Anthologies: The First Decade is Now Online
Have you ever been annoyed that you can't consistently find entries for 17th-century printed anthologies in the RISM catalog? We are working on changing that!The project to revise entries from 1500 and later in RISM's series B/I, which has been underway since April 2017 and which has in the...
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New at RISM: Annual Meeting of the Collaborative Project on Chinese Music Resources in Shanghai
We have received the following from Tzu-Chia Tseng of the RISM Chinese-Language Region: 2018/12: RISM-CLR held the annual meeting of the Collaborative Project on Chinese Music Resources and a Muscat workshop in ShanghaiThe Collaborative Project on Chinese Music Resources initiated by Mainland...
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New at RISM: RISM in VIAF
RISM has been delivering its authority records for personal names to VIAF since the middle of 2018. VIAF is the Virtual International Authority File, a joint project with many participating national libraries and library associations that is run by the library cooperative OCLC.Participating...
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New at RISM: Looking Back on 2018
Before we get too far into 2019, let's take a look at our most popular stories on our blog that we published in 2018. In case you missed some of these discoveries and developments in the world of musical sources, here's your chance to catch up! 1. Musical Anniversaries in 2018: We are happy this is...
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New at RISM: Musical Anniversaries in 2019
Happy New Year! As in past years, we would like to take a look at musical anniversaries for the next twelve months. The people whose birthdays or anniversaries of death we mark are not only composers but they can also be librettists, performers, dedicatees, or people who are in other ways connected...
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New at RISM: Happy Holidays 2018!
The RISM Central Office wishes you and your family all the best for a festive holiday season. We would like to thank you for your valuable work this year and we wish you all the best for a happy and successful 2019. Our office will be closed beginning December 24 and will reopen January 7, 2019.
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New at RISM: Internships at the RISM Central Office
We would like to announce that we are accepting applications for interns at the RISM Central Office in Frankfurt, Germany.RISM offers internships in its editorial department to people interested in experiencing the day-to-day work of a major digital bibliographic and musicological project....
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New at RISM: Muscat Workshops in October 2018
RISM will be holding more Muscat workshops this week and next. Printed music will be at the focus of a Muscat workshop for the first time that will be held from 4–6 October 2018 in the RISM Central Office in Frankfurt. In total, 14 people from Germany and abroad have signed up. Given the nature of...
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New at RISM: A Dedicated Website for the Muscat Project
We have received the following from Laurent Pugin (RISM Switzerland): Every RISM working group knows Muscat - it is the familiar interface with which each contributor has catalogued musical sources in the RISM database since 2016. But what is the history and the philosophy of this software project?...
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