We have been subscribing to RISM Online : Series A/II : music manuscripts after 1600 via Ebsco. That access will end 12/31/10 and be replaced by an open access version.

The new version is available now and in the catalog, etc. For the rest of the year, both interfaces will be available.

Try out the new version:
http://opac.rism.info/index.php?id=2&L;=1

What is RISM? The RISM is an international collective undertaking with the aim of comprehensively documenting surviving music sources anywhere in the world.

The RISM keeps track of what is in existence and where it is kept.

In many countries, independent national working groups in libraries and archives catalogue historical music sources: music prints, music manuscripts and libretti as well as writings about music (of a theoretical nature). The results are coordinated, summarised and published by the RISM.

The online-catalogue offered here contains around 700,000 references almost exclusively to music manuscripts. These records pass on to posterity the works of some 25,000 composers. The sources are preserved in the libraries and archives of 32 countriues.

This online-catalogue contains data on Series A/II: Music manuscripts after 1600.

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