2022 IAML Congress, Prague, Czech Republic

Events

2022 IAML Congress, Prague, Czech Republic

The 2022 IAML Congress took place in Prague from 24 – 29 July.

Contact: info@iaml2022.cz

Congress website: http://www.iaml2022.cz/

Hashtag on social media: #iaml2022

Programme

Final programme
Programme at a glance
Programme with abstracts (as of 20 July 2022)
Programme on Sched | PDF

General Assembly

Agenda (as of July 25 2022)
Videos of the two General Assembly meetings (members only)

Hot Topics

The Hot Topics session took place on Friday 29 July at 14.00-15.00. Suggested topics are here (must be logged in to view).

Videos from the IAML Congress in Prague, Hall A

Monday, July 25

Opening session: “The Big Four” thirty years after the Velvet Revolution
Bibliography Section: Bibliography in changing times: watermarks, historical music data and theatre sources
Archives and Music Documentation Centres Section: Keeping scores on copyright changes
Note: The echo in the recording could not be fixed.
Service and Training Section: Fixing a hole: re-imagining day-to-day processes and policy
Note: The echo in the recording could not be fixed.

Tuesday, July 26

Cataloguing and Metadata Section: Open linked data repository platforms for libraries

Wednesday, July 27

Thursday, July 28

Friday, July 29

Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM)
Note: The first minute is missing audio.
Service and Training Section: Look at all the library people: shifting roles and staff development
Hot Topics

Congress survey

Results from the 2022 IAML Congress Survey can be viewed here (PDF).

Other congress materials

Concert in National Museum, 25 July 2022 (Cancioneta Praga)
Concert in Mirror Chapel, 26 July 2022 (Epoque Quartet)
Concert on 28 July 2022 (Music in baroque Prague)
Ticket from Farewell Ceremony
Public transport ticket
Concert programme, Wednesday tour to Vyskoká

Photos
Photos may be viewed on Flickr.

Send presentation slides as links or files (PDF preferred; 15 MB limit) to share on this page below to webeditor@iaml.info.

Congress diaries

General Assembly minutes

Reports for the General Assembly

Materials presented in the sessions

Bibliography Section

- Digital projects on Italian sources: Arrigo Boito’s papers now online, including new documents on Giuseppe Verdi (revised slides + text)Federica Riva (Conservatorio di musica „Antonio Scontrino“ (Trapani), Rome) and Olga Jesurum (Rome)

Broadcasting and Orchestra Libraries Section

- Preserve and present: building the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra ArchivesTzu-Chia Tseng (Digital Archive Center for Music, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei)
- Czech Radio: music publisher and its orchestral hire libraryRobert Škarda (Czech Radio, Prague)

Cataloguing and Metadata Section

- Podiumkunst.net: connecting music and other performing arts collections with the RDA ontologyEric van Balkum (Stichting Omroep Muziek, Hilversum)
- Le dépôt légal du son dématérialisé à la Bibliothèque nationale de FrancePierre Pichon (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris)
- “Nice little tune!” — Preparing for a thematic catalogue of British string quartets in the early twentieth century: A Source StudySteven Jeon (University of Birmingham)
- Wikidata and linked open data for music vocabulariesChristopher Holden (Library of Congress, Washington D.C.)

Digital Libraries for Musicology

- DLfM2022: 9th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology – 2022 Proceedings
- The Alignment of Open Access with FAIR Principles in Musicological Publishing and TeachingAnne Shelley and Rachel Scott
- Segmentation, transcription, analysis and visualisation of the Norwegian Folk Collection of Folk MusicOlivier Lartillot (University of Oslo) and Hans-Hinrich Thedens (National Library of Norway, Oslo, NR)
- Summary Features as the Basis for Content-Based Queries of Symbolic Music RepositoriesCory McKay and Julie E. Cumming
- Full-text searching of music online: an update on progress in F-TEMPOTim Crawford (Goldsmiths University of London, London, NR) and Alastair Porter (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

Forum of Sections

- Creating new cultural content from old archival materials (paper)Sharon Kanach (Centre Iannis Xenakis / GRHis / Université de Rouen Normandie, Rouen) and Cyrille Delhaye (Centre Iannis Xenakis, Rouen)
- Creating new cultural content from old archival materials (slides)Sharon Kanach (Centre Iannis Xenakis / GRHis / Université de Rouen Normandie, Rouen) and Cyrille Delhaye (Centre Iannis Xenakis, Rouen)
- Speeding-up the encoding of mensural collections from Spanish librariesDavid Rizo (Universidad de Alicante), Teresa Delgado (Asociación Española de Documentación Musical), Jorge Calvo and Antonio Madueño (Universidad de Alicante), Patricia García-Iasci (Universidad de Salamanca)
- Antonín Dvořák‘s songs: editorial challengesVeronika Vejvodová (National Museum, Czech Museum of Music, Antonín Dvořák Museum, Prague)
- The Basilean music collection of Lucas Sarasin (1730-1802): an early example of ‘bourgeois’ manuscript collecting revisited in a new digital formatRoland Pfeiffer (University Library Basel)
- Erik Chisholm and the Active Society for the Propagation of Contemporary Music: an archival research scoping studyBrian Inglis (Middlesex University, London)
- Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt in exchanges with South America from 1950 to 1990: Introduction to IMD Archiv and other sourcesJoevan de Mattos Caitano (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden)
- To make a real theatre: Preparation of a monograph on the Bohuslav Martinů Musical Theater until 1937, including a critical edition of the librettosNatálie Krátká (Bohuslav Martinů Institute, Prague) and Aleš Březina (Bohuslav Martinu Institute, Prague)
- Bohuslav Martinů’s and Viktor Kalabis’ online archivesAleš Březina (The Viktor Kalabis and Zuzana Růžičková Endowment Fund, Prague) and Martin Ledvinka (Bohuslav Martinů Institute, Prague)
- Solving puzzles: the project MARCMUS – Music paper and handwriting studies and the collaboration between music libraries and academiaIsabel Gonçalves (National Library of Portugal, Lisbon), Sílvia Sequeira (National Library of Portugal, Lisbon) and António Jorge Marques (CESEM / Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
- Project Group on RISM Series C: deliverables. An instruction manual for institutional authority records in MUSCATAris Bazmadelis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki), Maria Aslanidi (Ionian University, Corfu), and Arsinoi Ioannidou (Greek RISM Office)
- I’m beginning to see the leitmotif: Max Steiner’s earliest surviving film score manuscriptJeff Lyon (Brigham Young University, Provo) and Brent Yorgason (Brigham Young University, Provo, NR)
- Digitizing rare music manuscripts at Stanford: a progress report (notes)Raymond Heigemeir (Stanford University)
- Digitizing rare music manuscripts at Stanford: a progress report (slides)Raymond Heigemeir (Stanford University)
- WoO 195: The story and life behind a Beethoven piece: a virtual exhibit on the story of Théodore Frédéric Molt, only Canadian who met Ludwig van Beethoven in Vienna 1825Marc Stoeckle (University of Calgary, NR) and Sylvia Polachuck (University of Calgary)
- From private to public: the personal library of composer Arvo Pärt at the Arvo Pärt CentreToomas Schvak (Arvo Pärt Centre, Laulasmaa)
- Friends with benefits: visualising musicians’ networksLizzy Buckle (Royal Holloway, University of London and Foundling Museum, London)
- The NFDI4Culture consortium as a hub between research and librariesDesiree Mayer (Sächsische Landesbibliothek-Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden)
- Die Sammlung des Städtischen Deutschen Theaters Riga – die Forschungsergebnisse und HerausforderungenEridana Žiba (National Library of Latvia, Rīga)
- A bird in Iowa, a bird in Bohemia: Dvořák and birdsongAnita Breckbill (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
- Vítězslav Novák in the collection of the Music Department of the National Library of the Czech RepublicLudmila Šmídová (National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague)

Hot Topics

- Shrinking the Music LibraryAnita Breckbill (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)

Libraries in Music Teaching Institutions

- Surveying composers part II: Interviews with composers regarding music discovery and their relationship to library collectionsSandi-Jo Malmon (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) and Elizabeth Berndt-Morris (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)
- Lost in translation: canons of western music and the role of music libraries in their dissemination, a case study from the University of Tennessee’s Galston-Busoni ArchivesM. Nathalie Hristov (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
- Where are the ‘other’ scores? Addressing the lack of diversity in South African sheet music collections of the University of Cape TownWilhelm Delport (University of Cape Town)

Organizing Committee

- Opening session: “The Big Four” thirty years after the Velvet Revolution: research institutes, publishing projects, and the works of Smetana, Dvořák, Janáček, and Martinů (Dvořák slides)Veronika Vejvodová (National Museum - Antonín Dvořák Museum, Prague)
- Opening session: “The Big Four” thirty years after the Velvet Revolution: research institutes, publishing projects, and the works of Smetana, Dvořák, Janáček, and Martinů (Bärenreiter slides)Eva Velická (Bärenreiter, Prague)
- Opening session: “The Big Four” thirty years after the Velvet Revolution: research institutes, publishing projects, and the works of Smetana, Dvořák, Janáček, and Martinů (Smetana slides)Sandra Bergmannová (National Museum - Bedřich Smetana Museum, Prague)
- Opening session: “The Big Four” thirty years after the Velvet Revolution: research institutes, publishing projects, and the works of Smetana, Dvořák, Janáček, and Martinů (Martinů slides)Aleš Březina (Bohuslav Martinů Institute, Prague)

Poster session

- MEI conversion for the Joseph Haydn Werkverzeichnis OnlineJoshua Neumann (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz)
- The INA archive films (Institut National de l’audiovisuel): How Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie and countless Black musicians sought greater freedom in 1950s FranceRowan Standish Hayes (Qwest TV) and Natalie Gomez (Qwest TV EDU)
- Two Bohemian composers of the 19th century (re-)discovered: Wenzel Heinrich Veit and Franz Marschner (poster)Beate Schiebl (Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Marburg)
- Two Bohemian composers of the 19th century (re-)discovered: Wenzel Heinrich Veit and Franz Marschner (handout)Beate Schiebl (Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Marburg)
- Musical heritage in Slovak institutions (paper with links)Anna Žilková (Music Centre Slovakia, Bratislava)
- Musical heritage in Slovak institutions (links to YouTube videos)Anna Žilková (Music Centre Slovakia, Bratislava)

Public Libraries Section

- The partnership between the library and culture: the unique collaboration between Library of the City of Ostrava and cultural institutions of OstravaAlena Bittmarová (Library of the City of Ostrava)

Research Libraries Section

- Archiving a living composer: three main periods of building Arvo Pärt‘s archiveAnneli Kivisiv (Arvo Pärt Centre, Laulasmaa) and Toomas Schvak (Arvo Pärt Centre, Laulasmaa)
- The Archive for Pop Music Cultures at the Freiburg Center for Popular Culture and Music: conception, practice, and challengesChristofer Jost (Zentrum für Populäre Kultur und Musik, Freiburg)
- Presentation of the Research Libraries Section – Challenges and difficulties for research libraries – getting in touch with youRuprecht Langer, Eva Neumayr, Ewa Hauptman-Fischer (Research Libraries Section)

RILM

- Highlighting performing arts and cultural heritage in UkraineStephanie Bonjack (University of Colorado Boulder)

RISM

- The RISM Catalog: latest developments and future perspectivesJürgen Diet and Bernhard Lutz (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)
- An overview of the activities of the Czech working group and its publication series of thematic cataloguesZuzana Petrášková and Eliška Šedivá (National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague)
- Cataloguing printed editions for RISM – an overviewJennifer Ward (RISM Editorial Center)

Service and Training Section

- New model of work: McGill’s hybrid shared office experiment (slides)Joseph Hafner, Megan Chellew, Maryvon Côté and Andrew Senior (McGill University, Montréal)
- New model of work: McGill’s hybrid shared office experiment (recording; for IAML members only)Joseph Hafner, Megan Chellew, Maryvon Côté and Andrew Senior (McGill University, Montréal)
- Academic writing support – a new field of activity for music librarians?!Barbara Fuchslehner (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Vienna) and Anna Eberhöfer (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna)
- Reprographics, reluctance and risk: library copying of scores for usersClaire Kidwell (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London)

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