Répertoire International des Sources Musicales

Klaus Keil, Director; Harald Heckmann, Honorary President; Christoph Wolff, President

And where it is kept

The Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (abbreviation RISM, dt International Inventory of Musical Sources, Eng. International Inventory of Musical Sources ) is an organization in Paris was founded, transnational and civic-minded in 1952 with the aim of documenting the world's traditional sources of music including. The organization is the largest and only global companies to document written musical sources.

The recorded musical sources are handwritten or printed music, works on music and text books. They are stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections. RISM what is available and where it is kept. In the professional world RISM is recognized as a central detection site for sources of the music world.

By cataloging in a comprehensive glossary of musical traditions on the one hand protected against loss and made ​​of musicology and performing musicians accessible to the other.

Organization

In 36 countries, one or more national RISM working groups involved in this project. Around 100 employees describe the musical sources that are kept in their countries. The work results direct them to the RISM central editorial office in Frankfurt am Main on which edits and publishes the title editorial messages.

In the following countries and cities can be found at the time RISM working groups:

• Australia: Adelaide
• Belgium: Brussels and Leuven
• Brazil: Bahia, Brasília, Campinas, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo
• Denmark: Copenhagen
• Germany: Dresden and Munich
• Estonia: Tallinn
• Finland: Åbo / Turku
• France: Paris
• Greece: Thessaloniki
• Ireland: Waterford
• Italy: Milan and Rome
• Japan: Tokyo
• Canada: London ( Ontario)
• Croatia: Zagreb
• Latvia: Riga
• Lithuania: Vilnius
• Netherlands: The Hague
• Norway: Trondheim
• Austria: Innsbruck, Salzburg and Vienna
• Poland: Wroclaw, Gdansk, Lublin and Warsaw
• Portugal: Lisbon
• Romania: Bucharest
• Russia: Moscow and St. Petersburg
• Sweden: Stockholm
• Switzerland: Bern
• Slovakia: Bratislava
• Slovenia: Ljubljana
• Spain: Barcelona
• South Korea: Seoul
• Czech Republic: Prague
• Turkey: Istanbul
• Ukraine: Kiev and L' viv
• Hungary: Budapest
• USA: Cambridge
• United Kingdom: London
• Belarus: Minsk

The RISM Zentralredaktion and the Working Group of the Federal Republic of Germany are a project of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. The other working groups are supported financially in their respective countries.

Publications

The publications of the RISM are divided into the following series:

• The alphabetical Serie A
• Systematic series B
• The music library directory C series

In addition, the working groups documented in its own libretto projects text books that have been handed down in their respective countries.

RISM Series A / I - printed music

The RISM Series A / I Single Prints before 1800 cataloged printed music from the period of 1500 until 1800. During the nine volumes of the series ( 1971-1981 ) about 78,000 printed music by composers from 7616 2178 libraries are detected. Between 1986 and 1999 appeared four supplementary volumes, followed in 2003 by a register tape with publishers, printers, engravers and publishers locations. All volumes of RISM Series A / I are in the Barenreiter -Verlag, Kassel, appeared. The alphabetically by composer name catalog contains exclusively Individual Prints, ie printed music with works of a single composer. Collecting prints ( printed music with works by various composers ) are published in the RISM Series B.

The entries include the following information:

• Composers Name
• Where appropriate, opus or catalog raisonné number
• Title of pressure
• Presentation form, ie, score, parts, piano reduction
• Place of publication
• Publisher
• Possibly Year

End of 2012, a CD- ROM Series A / I is published in the Barenreiter Verlag. In addition to the intention of researchers and musicians to facilitate the path to the source, provides such a catalog for other areas of interest and questions attractive options. So you can find interesting information about under the desk research. To answer the question, for example, the way in which the music of a composer was maintained after his death, it is important to know how many and which books were printed in new editions.

RISM Series A / II - Music Manuscripts

The RISM Series A / II Music Manuscripts after 1600 listed only handwritten notes. They are described in detail in a uniform manner with more than 100 fields and stored in the operated by the RISM central editorial office in Frankfurt am Main database.

By now, more than 850,000 business records of about 27,000 composers available ( steadily increasing, here: as of September 2013). The total number of worldwide music manuscripts is higher by a multiple.

The evidence currently comes from more than 900 libraries from 37 countries: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, South Korea, Czech Republic, Hungary, Uruguay, Ukraine, the USA, Venezuela, the United Kingdom and Belarus. For the database of RISM is the tangible by far the most extensive documentation in this area.

The RISM database has been available since June 2010 as a free online catalog on the Internet via the RISM -OPAC or directly via the RISM website. The catalog was made possible by a collaboration between the RISM, the Bavarian State Library and the State Library in Berlin. The former offer a cumulative CD -ROM edition by KG Saur Verlag, Munich, was discontinued in 2008. The paid offer the Internet database at EBSCO, Ipswich, MA, USA, formerly NISC, Inc., Baltimore, continues on.

Inter alia, include the catalog entries Information about composers ( with live data), title, and occupation of the compositions with evidence to the distortion in the literature. The manuscripts themselves are described in detail in view of the writer, origin and time of origin. In addition, almost every work is music incipits, ie the beginning of the most important voices in musical notation, clearly identifiable. The database provides information not only about the dissemination of works still well-known composers, but also provides a wealth of information on the many in their time estimated, but today little-known or forgotten Musicians. For the history of music, therefore, the database represents an invaluable tool and also allows the musical practice numerous " excavations " and rediscoveries.

Various search fields allow you not only to research particular composer, work titles or music ensembles, but also related to the origin and the time of origin of the manuscripts or other persons as lyricists, previous owners and dedication carriers.

Specific questions can be answered by the specific combination of the indices. All recorded at RISM source evidence to the measured compositions by Joseph Haydn, for example, are immediately determined.

When identifying an anonymous traditional work, the search for music incipits a promising research opportunity dar. purpose the user is on the computer keyboard, the first notes of the present him a composition.

RISM Series B

The RISM Series B forms a systematic series documents the closed source groups. To date the following volumes by G. Henle Verlag, Munich, published are (in brackets is optionally followed by the translation of foreign-language titles in German ):

• B / I and B / II: Recueils imprimés XVIe - XVIIIe siècles (2 volumes). (Printed collections of 16th to 18th century )
• B / III: The Theory of Music from the Carolingian Era up to c. 1500th Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts (6 volumes). ( The music theory of the Carolingian era to about 1500. Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts )
• B / IV: manuscripts containing polyphonic music from the 11th to the 16th century (5 volumes, 1 supplementary volume ).
• B / V: Tropical and sequences manuscripts
• B / VI: Écrits imprimés concernant la musique (2 volumes). (Printed writings on music)
• B / VII: Hand traditional lute and guitar tablature from the 15th to the 18th century.
• B / VIII: The German hymn (2 volumes, Kassel: Barenreiter Verlag).
• B / IX: Hebrew Sources ( 2 volumes). ( Hebrew sources)
• B / X: The Theory of Music in Arabic Writings c. 900-1900 (2 volumes). ( The theory of music in Arabic writings of about 900-1900 )
• B / XI: Ancient Greek Music Theory. A Catalogue Raisonné of Manuscripts. (Ancient Greek music theory. An annotated list of manuscripts )
• B / XII: Manuscripts persans concernant la musique. ( Persian manuscripts to the music )
• B / XIII: Hymnologica Slavica. Hymnologica Bohemical, Slavica (HBS ), Polonica (HP), Sorabica (HS). Printed music of the 16th to 18th century
• B / XIV: Les manuscrits you processionnal (2 volumes). ( The manuscripts of the processional )
• B / XV: Polyphonic Fairs in sources from Spain, Portugal and Latin America, about 1490-1630.

RISM Series C

The RISM Series C listed under the title Directory of music research libraries in five volumes all music libraries, archives and private collections, store the historical material. This music library directory is created in cooperation with the Publication Committee of the International Association of Bibliothèques, Archives et de Documentation Centres Musicaux ( IAML ). The special volume published in 1999 RISM library sigla. Complete index is available since 2006 in a regularly updated version on the website of RISM.

Users of the RISM publications

• Musicologists who are looking for sources for their research topic to create about to List of Works and editions of musical texts;
• Musicians who are looking for lesser-known works for a concert program;
• Librarians, research the parallel source lore to the newspapers held by the library;
• Music antiquarians, look up the other copies of the printed music they offer.