RÉPERTOIRE INTERNATIONAL DES SOURCES MUSICALES (RISM)
NAME:
Internationally: Répertoire International des Sources Musicales
in English: International Inventory of Musical Sources
in German: Internationale Quellenlexikon der Musik
PICTURE:
LOCATION/ADDRESS:
RISM Zentralredaktion (RISM Editorial Center)
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
Senckenberganlage 31–33
60325 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
WEB SITE:
CONTACT:
SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE INSTITUTION:
The Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) is an international, non-profit organization that aims to comprehensively document extant musical sources worldwide: manuscripts, printed music editions, writings on music theory, and libretti that are found in libraries, archives, churches, schools, and private collections. The RISM database contains over 1.5 million records and can be searched through the RISM Catalog of Musical Sources at no cost. RISM was founded in Paris in 1952 and is the largest and only global organization that documents written musical sources. RISM records what exists and where it can be found.
SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE AUTHORITY DATA:
- Described entities:
o Persons
o Corporate bodies
o Geographical names
o Titles/text incipits
o Liturgical festivals
o Subject headings
o Secondary literature
- Number of records for each type of authority data (as of 1 February 2022)
o Persons (144,225)
o Corporate bodies (31,407)
o Geographical names (20,476)
o Titles/text incipits (767,291)
o Liturgical festivals (2,418)
o Subject headings (1,035)
o Secondary literature (36,777)
DATA PROVIDED TO VIAF:
- Authority records for Persons
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Annual Reports
https://rism.info/publications/annual-reports/index.html