Eine neue Datenbank von Univ.-Prof. Dr. Birgit Lodes (Universität Wien)
Ludwig Senfl – Verzeichnis sämtlicher Werke und Quellen
Auf diesen Seiten soll das Schaffen Ludwig Senfls und seine Präsenz in zeitgenössischen Quellen umfassend dokumentiert werden.
Doug Reside, Digital Curator of Performing Arts, New York Public Library, has released a promising mobile app called Libretto (link is external), a prototype open source, e-book reader for reading musicals. So far it is only available on Android devices. Libretto allows you to compare different versions of a musical--not only the text, but the music as well.
A new database has just been released from the Institute of Musicology, University of Fribourg (Switzerland); the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice (Italy); and the Swiss RISM Office, Bern:
Printed Sacred Music in Europe, 1500-1750
The Paris-based Museum of Music keeps archives from luthiers, instrument makers and musicians. Several hundreds of these documents are now accessible online. These archives testify to evolutions both in instrument-making and in the musical scene during the 19th and 20th centuries. In particular, they comprise registers from Érard, Pleyel and Gaveau, from Nicolas Lupot, Gand and Bernardel’s instrument-making workshops, and they also include substantial correspondence between luthiers Chanot and Chardon. The main part of these archive collections - comprising extremely fragile documents, sometimes in poor condition - was digitized and uploaded for safe-keeping and accessibility purposes, as testimony.
As we read from our colleague Santie de Jongh on IAML-L earlier this week, there is a new resource from South Africa: the Directory of South African Music Collections (link is external). Its goal is to "collat[e] information on special music collections in South Africa in order to stimulate music research on South African materials in South Africa and internationally." It includes information from 37 institutions and will continue to grow.
