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  • Briefs/Feuilletons
  • Kristina Krämer, James P. Cassaro, and Stephanie Merakos

200 Years of Printed Music History: RISM B/I Now Entirely in the RISM Online Catalog

The RISM Editorial Center would like to announce that after approximately four years of editing, all of the entries from RISM volume B/I, Recueils imprimés, XVIe-XVIIe siècles, ed. François Lesure (Munich: Henle, 1960) have been revised and can be found in the RISM Catalogue of Musical Sources at https://opac.rism.info. This concludes a four-year editing project that began in 2017, after previously having imported records that were converted from text in the book. As with all records in the RISM catalogue, each record from B/I has a unique RISM ID number, though the original B/I numbers are included as references.

Records for over 2,700 printed music books containing music by more than one composer are now available for research, starting with the famous Petrucci edition of 1501, Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, and ending with A Choice Collection of Ayres for the Harpsichord or Spinnet published in London in 1700. With these two anthologies bookending B/I, we see both a shift from movable type to engraving, as well as the spread of music publishing beyond its initial concentration in Italy.

Even though this initial revision of the B/I records has been completed, there are still many opportunities for libraries to collaborate with RISM in order to improve these records by adding detailed contents information and music incipits. This is especially important for editions that have not yet been digitised or are especially rare. And in spite of the many overlaps with records from Series A/I (Einzeldrucke vor 1800, documenting publications with music by a single composer), there is still a significant number of A/I records that need to be revised in a similar manner. Please direct any additions, corrections, or inquiries to contact@rism.info.

Kristina Krämer
RISM Zentralredaktion, Frankfurt, Germany

This summer, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text will add nine more titles to its full-text journal collection. The new titles are:

  • Aspekty muzyki (Gdańsk: Akademia Muzyczna im. Stanisława Moniuszki, 2011–). ISSN 2082–6044

  • Ad Parnassum: A Journal of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Instrumental Music (Bologna: Ut Orpheus, 2003–). ISSN 1722–3954

  • Feedback Papers and Feedback Papers: Weltmusik (Köln: Feedback-Studio, 1971–2009). ISSN 0000–0000

  • Informazione organistica: Rivista della Fondazione Accademia di Musica Italiana per Organo (Pistoia: Accademia di Musica Italiana per Organo, 1989–2019). ISSN 1724–4315

  • Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute (Los Angeles: University of Southern California–Arnold Schoenberg Institute, 1978–1996). ISSN 0146–5856

  • Journal of Czech and Slovak Music: The Journal of the Dvořák Society (Newcastleunder-Lyme: Dvořák Society for Czech and Slovak Music, 1974–). ISSN 2515–6292 [End Page 139]

  • Music Therapy Today (World Federation of Music Therapy, 2001–2007, 2011–). E-ISSN 1610–191X

  • Mузыкальная академия [Muzykal'naâ akademiâ/Music Academy] (Moskva: Kompozitor, 1933–). ISSN 0869–4516 and E-ISSN 0131–2383

  • Neuma: Revista de música y docencia musical (Talca: Universidad de Talca, 2008–). ISSN 0718–7017 and E-ISSN 0719–5389

With the addition of these titles, RILM Abstracts augments its coverage and the depth of its full-text enhancement.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text is a comprehensive bibliography of writings on music featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. It covers over one million publications from the early nineteenth century to the present on traditional music, popular music, jazz, classical music, and related subjects, enhanced with full text.

If you do not already subscribe to RILM Abstracts with Full Text, contact your EBSCO sales representative, or e-mail information@ebsco.com.

The Emerging Masters Collection, 1954–1989 at the Finney Music Library, University of Pittsburgh has been digitised

Funded by a Grammy Foundation grant of $11,461.00, the entire collection of 420 reel-to-reel tapes has been reformatted. The core of the recordings focus on contemporary music by composers affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh, as well as major performers of this repertoire. Works and performances by local musicians are also represented, including vocal recitals by Mildred...

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