IAML Electronic Newsletter No. 18, December 2005 From IAML 2005 Dear colleagues, dear friends, All my best wishes for the new year, may it Here are further reports from Warsaw, be full of satisfactions and of happiness. which reached the newsletter after the pre- vious one had been sent out. [ [ [ National Reports Chers collègues, chères amies, chers amis, Belgium The celebration of the hun- Mes meilleurs vœux pour la nouvelle an- dredth anniversary of the acquisition of the née, qu’elle soit pleine de satisfactions et de collection of Guido Wagener by the Brus- joie. sels Royal Conservatory took place in [ [ [ 2004, and included a very successful physical and virtual exhibit, concert and Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, liebe CD recording. • Denijs Dille, the famous Freundinnen und Freunde, Belgian Bartók specialist and the first Alle meine besten Wünsche für das neue director of the Bartók Archive in Budapest, Jahr; kann es von Zufriedenheiten und vom passed away at the age of 101. His private Glück voll sein. archive and collection, containing a lot of Bartók materials such as autographs, [ [ [ family letter and photographs is now Queridos colegas, queridos amigos, housed in the Royal Library of Belgium. • Two meetings took place at the Royal Todos mis recuerdos por el Año Nuevo; Flemish Academy of Sciences and Arts. puede ser lleno de satisfacciones y de felici- The first one focused on the problems of dad. making music accessible in collaboration, [ [ [ while the second one was dedicated to digital libraries for musical audio, during Дорогие коллегы, дорогие друзья, which the digitization project of the ethno- Все мои лучшие пожелания на новый graphical sound recordings of the Royal год; может быть полниы соответствий и Museum for Central Africa in Brussels was счастья discussed. Several IAML members were invited to give interesting presentations. Massimo Gentili-Tedeschi • An aggressive campaign by a local copy- right organization has caused libraries to a web site was created. The branch intro- reorganize or even rebuild their music col- duced itself to other Croatian music socie- lections in order to avoid legal problems. ties. • In 2005, the group became a IAML Croatia The Croatian National Branch national branch. It is currently putting its of IAML (Hrvatska udruga muzičkih efforts into improving its relationship with knjižnica, arhiva i dokumentacijskih cen- the music archives - national, church and tara) was founded in 2004. In the first year, broadcasting (because current members are it had 10 individual members, and in 2005 mainly music librarians) and supporting membership increased with additional 5 the marketing of sheet music, making bet- institutional members. • Four meetings ter connections between music publishers were held in 2004, during which the estab- and dealers and trying to encourage them lishment of the branch was discussed, and to open shops specialized for sheet music. To submit an item to this newsletter, please send it via email to the address [email protected] IAML Electronic Newsletter N° 18 December 2005 Sweden During the annual meeting, which included an invited talk on artistic Changes of address research, it was decided to align the regula- tions about the length of terms of board Georgina Binns new email address is: members with the IAML Rules of Proce- . dure. • The membership bulletin continues Ruth Hellen’s new e-mail address for to raise its standard and has now its own IAML & other professional & personal logotype. • The national representative for purposes is: outreach is Birgitta Sparre. • Training ac- tivities included this year a one-day course Pia Shekhter has a new email address, on film music. • The branch has been busy it is now: . preparing for the 2006 IAML conference in Göteborg, and welcomes everyone who (vice chair) and Corinne Brun, Cité de la will attend. musique, Paris (secretary). Public Libraries Branch WG on the IAML Toolbox The IAML Public Libraries Branch ar- The working group had two meetings ranged two sessions at the Warsaw confer- this year in order to make a good start with ence. Kirsten Husted, Vejle Bibliotek, the activities for the IAML Toolbox. Gab- Denmark was chair. riele Gamba gave instructions on the • First session, Tuesday July 12. Ole Egroupware program and Christel Rosen- Bisbjerg, State Library Denmark, intro- borg agreed to act as webmaster. Various duced the national project “Bibliotekernes tasks will be undertaken during the follow- Netmusik”, online music in the Public Li- ing months to get the Toolbox on its way. braries in Denmark. The online sheetmusic Hanneke Kuiper project, SheetMusicNow, was presented by Jonathan Irons. The third lecture, “Warum Mozart aus den Wolken fiel (Why Mozart Music (in) libraries fell out of the clouds): concepts for intro- ducing children to the music library”, was New music library in Switzer- given by Verena Funtenberger (Music li- land brary Essen, Germany). The Bibliothèque musicale du Valais • Second session, Thursday July 14. (Wallis) has opened its doors in October in Charlotte Pedersen, Odense Musikbiblio- the city of Sion. Its collection, put together tek, spoke about the framework of the pro- with the help of the cantonal local conser- ject “Between Oeuvre and mediation”, a vatory and the Tibor Varga academy of vision on the modern music library, 2005- music, includes several thousands of musi- 2015. In the last paper Kaie Viigipuu, cal scores, ca. 6,000 recordings, 1,500 Tallinn Central Library, gave us the results monographies and reference books. of a research into the music departments of the Public Libraries within the Estonian New Médiathèque of the Cité Music Library Association. de la Musique in Paris Elections were held for the Public Li- Ten years after the opening of the Cité braries Branch, with thanks to Ruth Hellen de la Musique, its new Médiathèque who chaired the election on behalf of the opened its doors in October 2005. It IAML Council. The results were: Hanneke merges the three original documentation Kuiper, Public Library Amsterdam (chair), centers: the musical information center Kirsten Husted, Vejle Bibliotek, Denmark (dedicated to amateur and professional musicians), the documentation center of 2 IAML Electronic Newsletter N° 18 December 2005 the museum of musical instruments and the by the Committee on Current Records of pedagogical library (mainly dedicated to the International Council on Archives. It is teachers). The ca. 70,000 documents (print, available online. sound, audiovisual and multimedia) are hosted in an extension of the original New DVD building. The online portal provides access Knowing the score is a region-free DVD to the catalog, as well as to some sound by Malcolm Bilson, Cornell music profes- and video recordings, to selected databases sor and specialist of the period-instrument and to specific online pedagogical dossiers. movement. It includes a one-and-half video of a lecture before a live audience, in Publications, events which Bilson examines aspects of notation of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Prokofiev, New RIPM publications Schubert and Bartók, showing that there is Its November issue – already available far more expressive information in these in print, and online and on CD-ROM in scores than is usually presumed. It also January 2006 – includes records from the contains an interview with pianist David Harvard Musical Review, Melos, La Cul- Owen Morris; demonstrations and per- tura Musicale, La Revue Pleyel and the formances on early pianos. Penguin Music Magazine. More informa- Anders Lonn tion on the RIPM web site. RIPM will celebrate in 2006 its 25th anniversary. Conferences and events Randi Trzesinski A list of over 100 conferences in music can Manager, Operations and Pub- be found on the Royal Holloway web site. lications • Mozart events at the British Library, The RIPM Consortium Ltd. January 29-30, 2006 Featuring a series of papers, recitals and demonstrations given Other publications by an international gathering of Mozart • Forum Musikbibliothek The last is- scholars and performers, Mozart Then and sue (26. Jg. 2005/4) has been released. Now will be presented alongside a special exhibition in the Library’s John Ritblat • J&J Lubrano announces the availabil- Gallery centred on Mozart’s Verzeichnüss ity of two new antiquarian music catalogs: aller meiner Werke (Catalogue of all my Musical Autograph & Manuscripts; Rare works), and a screening of the documen- Printed Music; Rare Books on Music & tary film In Search of Mozart. Dance, and Scarce and Out-of-Print Books: Music Reference & Bibliography; • WOCMAT 2006, March 18-19, 2006, Musical Instruments; Facsimiles, etc. Taiwan The International Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technologies • Alexander Street Press is adding ap- is a joint discipline forum for the presenta- proximately 45,000 from EMI to Classical tion of new computer music and audio Music Library for live release by early technology. It generates opportunities to 2006. With this addition, Alexander Street create, perform and listen to com- Press will have all of EMI's classical re- puter/electronic music in Taiwan, and has cordings that have been digitized to date. brought together leading musicians and The addition more than doubles the size of scientists to work together. More informa- Classical Music Library from 40,000 tion is available on its web site. tracks to approximately 85,000 tracks. • TAPE workshop on management of • Electronic Records: A Workbook for audiovisual collections, April 19-25, Archivists This new publication is a study 2006, Amsterdam. Organized by the 3 IAML Electronic Newsletter N° 18 December 2005 European Commission on Preservation and Standards and Technology Access as part of the TAPE project, this workshop is targeted to all those responsi- ble for audiovisual collections in archives, Holography for archival museums, libraries. It will review the char- A Denver, CO, company, InPhase Tech- acteristics of film, video and sound re- nologies, has announced the availability, cordings and the different recording sys- by the end of 2006, of a new kind of disc, tems and devices.