RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600
Published by the Répertoire International des Sources Musicale - RISM (International Inventory of Musical Sources) is an international, non-profit joint venture, which aims to comprehensively document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory, and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections. The organization, founded in Paris in 1952, is the largest and only global operation that registers musical sources. RISM documents what exists and where it is stored.
RISM - Series A/II: Music manuscripts after 1600 is the most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts containing more than 620,000 manuscript records by over 22,500 composers found in over 800 libraries and archives in 32 countries including: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Uruguay and the United States.
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Index Browse by: Key (the musical key a piece is composed in, e.g., A Flat Major)
Language
Library Name (library holding the manuscript, e.g., Warszawa, Biblioteka Publiczna m. st. Warszawy)
Library Sigla (a standard abbreviated code representing a library name)
Literature Sigla (a standard abbreviated code representing secondary sources {thematic catalogues} cited)
Names (Composer, composer variant names, author, provenance, arranger, etc.)
Role (musical role or part, such as Pilatus, associated with a given work)
Title (the title of the manuscript)
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Limiters: Document Type and Year of Publication | |
Reference-source Authority files: Composers, Library Sigla, Literature |
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