After several years serving IAML as the IAML Historian Roger Flury has decided to step down. The IAML Board is therefore seeking to appoint a successor to Roger and would like to encourage members to consider applying for this position.
The July-September 2019 issue of Fontes Artis Musicae (66/3) is now available on Project Muse or the IAML website for members. Contents include four articles, the Briefs/Feuilletons column, and six book reviews.
The Liesbeth Hoedemaeker-Cohen Fund for IAML Congress Travel was established in Liesbeth’s honor on 24 February 2017. The H. Robert Cohen / RIPM Fund for IAML Congress Travel was established in 2019 on the occasion of RIPM’s fortieth birthday, in recognition of RIPM’s contribution to international scholarship and of those who created and contribute to it. The cash awards from both Funds are intended to support travel to attend the annual IAML congress.
Magnetic tape replay equipment is fading out. Today’s knowledge of the linguistic and cultural diversity of humanity is widely based on magnetic tape recordings produced over the past 60 years. Magnetic audio and video tape formats are now obsolete. Spare parts supply and service is fading, replay equipment in operable condition is disappearing rapidly, and routine transfer of magnetic tape documents is estimated to end around 2025. The only way to preserve these sounds and images in the long term, and to keep them accessible for future generations, is their digitisation and transfer to safe digital repositories.
The Polish issue of Fontes Artis Musicae (Vol. 66, no. 2 [April-June 2019]) is now available on Project Muse or the IAML website for members.
