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Le Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) est une organisation internationale à but non lucratif qui vise à documenter de manière exhaustive les sources musicales existantes dans le monde entier : manuscrits, musique imprimée, écrits sur la théorie musicale et livrets, que l’on trouve dans les bibliothèques, les archives, les églises, les écoles et les collections privées. Le RISM a été fondé à Paris en 1952 et est la plus grande et la seule organisation mondiale qui documente les sources musicales écrites. Le RISM enregistre ce qui existe et où l’on peut le trouver.
Upcoming events
IAML Deutschland conference in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 17-20 September 2024. Details here
Chercher par sigle pour les bibliothèques, archives et collections possédant des fonds musicaux historiques
Bibliotécaires, trouvez ici ce que le RISM vous offre
Tout sur Muscat, Le programme spécialisé du RISM pour le catalogage des sources musicales
Musical discoveries from English local archives
The previous RISM news item introduced the project Music, Heritage, Place: Unlocking the Musical Collections of England’s County Record Offices, led by Royal Holloway, University of London. This article introduces some of the sources recently discovered or catalogued in the project, to show the range of musical heritage found in...
Music from English local archives in RISM
The following guest post is by Stephen Rose (Head of Music Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK): Until recently, RISM’s records for the United Kingdom have focused on the holdings of major research libraries such as the British Library, Cambridge University Library and Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Now a richer...
The New Köchel Catalog
This morning the long-awaited new edition of the Köchel Catalog was presented to the public in the Great Hall of the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg. The new edition was compiled by Neal Zaslaw, Professor at Cornell University (Ithaca, New York), and meticulously prepared for printing by the research team...
A Visit to the André Archive in Offenbach
You may have already seen that this year marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of Johann André’s publishing house, which started in Offenbach in 1774. Though no longer publishing, the venerable business still exists and its historical archive has remained in the André family’s hands this whole time. In...
The Music Manuscripts of the Music Collection of the Austrian National Library in RISM
We have received the following from Christa Traunsteiner, deputy head of the Music Collection of the Austrian National Library. Since last year, RISM users have had access to a large part of the descriptions of the manuscripts kept in the Department of Music of the Austrian National Library. Specifically, the...
Upcoming events
IAML Deutschland conference in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 17-20 September 2024. Details here
Chercher par sigle pour les bibliothèques, archives et collections possédant des fonds musicaux historiques
Bibliotécaires, trouvez ici ce que le RISM vous offre
Tout sur Muscat, Le programme spécialisé du RISM pour le catalogage des sources musicales