Item Detail
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Répertoire International des Sources Musicales
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RISM-OPAC
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Website
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EBSCO Publishing
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English, German
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Music--Manuscripts.
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Répertoire International des Sources Musicales. “RISM-OPAC.” https://opac.rism.info/index.php?id=4 (accessed 24 June 2019).
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Worldwide catalog of musical sources dated between 1600 and 1850, with some outlying dates. Helpful for musicologists, musicians, librarians, students, and music antiquarians, according to the RISM home site.
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Contains over a million music manuscripts, thousands of printed music editions, and several hundred libretti and treatises. Independent institutions such as universities and churches, catalog their holdings, and RISM edits and compiles them here. This new online format includes the complete series A/I and A/II, and the years 1500-1550 and 1601-1610 of B/I. Does not include lost sources. The homepage and tabs with introductory information are available in English and German, but the catalog is also available in French, Italian, and Spanish.
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The RISM-OPAC homepage features a general search engine. There is an advanced search page with the option to search by a musical incipit (includes a digital piano keyboard). After the initial search results appear, one can limit those results by genre, composer, source type, scoring, publisher, year, library siglum, series, and authority data. Result lists can also be sorted in a different order, printed, downloaded, or emailed. Users can also compile personal temporary lists of entries and go back to previous searches.
The Content tab on the RISM-OPAC homepage contains statistics for the number for musical sources and indexes on RISM and some criteria information. More criteria are found in the About section, in addition to a link to the parent RISM website. The Help tab includes tutorials, guidelines, lists of abbreviations, and FAQ (note: the help option within the catalog leads back here). The Resources tab contains links to other related digital catalogs and libraries. The Data tab provides the open data and other formats. Finally, the Partners tab lists sponsors and collaborative groups. -
Interface is mobile-friendly. There is a tab within the catalog that lists all previous searches and allows users to run a search again instead of having to remember which search terms were used before. Claims to be the most comprehensive database of its kind.
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Very few sources dating post-1900 are included in this catalog.
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Colvin, Jenny. Music Reference Services Quarterly 14 (July 2011): 170-71.
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Internet
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