Monday, 19 June

9.00–10.30

Ziedonis Hall, Level 1

Opening session
Presented by the Organizing Committee
Chair: Anna Muhka (National Library of Latvia, Riga)
Sandis Voldiņš (State Secretary, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia)
Address by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia
Ēriks Ešenvalds (composer)
Libraries do inspire!
Ints Teterovskis (artistic director of Youth choir BALSIS, conductor)
Song celebration phenomenon – history, road, future
10.30–11.00

Level -1

Tea and coffee
Coffee Corner for Mentees and Mentors
11.00-12.30

Room 081 (D), Level -1

Manuscripts, letters and recordings: music archives throughout Europe
Presented by the Archives and Music Documentation Centres Section
Chair: Marie Cornaz (Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Brussels)
Elections
Lolita Fūrmane (Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, Riga)
Die Musikmanuskripte in den Repositorien Lettlands: Ein Bericht über Fonds, deren Zustand und Erforschungssituation
Patrizia Rebulla (Archivio Storico Ricordi, Milan)
Confidentially yours. The confidential letters of Giulio Ricordi
Frédéric Lemmers (Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels)
Digitizing sound archives at Royal Library of Belgium : challenges and difficulties encountered within a huge digitization project
11.00-12.30

Room 081 (C), Level -1

Music in ecclesiastical settings in central Europe
Presented by the Forum of Sections
Chair: Balázs Mikusi (IAML Vice President, National Széchényi Library, Budapest)
Armin Brinzing (Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg, Salzburg)
The Mozarts and the Music Collection of the Holy Cross Monastery in Augsburg
Marek Bebak (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Music and musicians in the monastery of the Brothers Hospitallers of St John of God in Cracow from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century in the light of the sources
Jana Vozková (Department of Music History, Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
P. Barnabas Weiss, erudite priest and musician in multicultural Prague
11.00-12.30

Room 081 (B), Level -1

Music collections and musical life in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Presented by the Forum of Sections
Chair: Jim Cassaro (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA)
Aušra Strazdaitė-Ziberkienė (Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas)
The 19th century sheet music collection in the Mikas and Kipras Petrauskai Lithuanian Music History department of Kaunas City Museum
Felix Purtov (Deutsche Zentralbücherei für Blinde, Leipzig)
Dmitri Schostakowitsch im Spiegel der deutschen Musikpresse vor dem zweiten Weltkrieg
Anita Breckbill (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln NE)
What were Mennonites singing when they traveled through the Red Gate into Latvia?
11.00-12.30

Room 076,
Level -1

Broadcasting and orchestra libraries section
Working meeting (open)
Chair: Nienke de Boer (Het Balletorkest / Dutch Ballet Orchestra, Amsterdam)
11.00-12.30

Room 078,
Level -1

Advocacy Committee
Working meeting (open)
Chair: Anna Pensaert (Cambridge University Library, Cambridge)
12.30-14.00 Lunch
12.30-13.30 National Library of Latvia Tour
14.00-15.30

Room 081 (C), Level -1

Music theory collections and notation systems
Presented by the Bibliography Section
Chair: Rupert Ridgewell (IAML Vice President, British Library, London)
Elections
Christopher Scobie (British Library, London)
“An entirely new method of writing music, in strict conformity with nature, and essentially free from all obscurity”: William Lunn’s Sequential System and proposals for music notation reform in the nineteenth century
Marta Walkusz (Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music, Gdańsk)
Musical literature published by Gebethner and Wolff collected in the Main Library of the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk. Provenance and characteristics of the collection
Tommi Harju (University of Arts Helsinki Library, Helsinki)
Some viewpoints to the private theoretical library of Johann Gottfried Walther (1684–1748)
14.00-15.30

Room 081 (D), Level -1

New approaches to collection development
Presented by the Forum of Sections
Chair: Richard Chesser (British Library, London)
Callie Holmes and Matthew Vest (UCLA Music Library, Los Angeles, CA)
A post-canon music library: finding, collecting and promoting divergent collections at the UCLA Music Library
Kai Kutman and Anneli Kivisiv (Arvo Pärt Centre, Laulasmaa)
Archiving a living composer: building Arvo Pärt’s personal archive
Antoine Provansal (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris), paper read by Clotilde Angleys (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris)
Les entrées de documents nés numériques au département de la Musique / Arrival of native digital documents in the Music Department, BnF
14.00-15.30

Room 081 (B), Level -1

Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale (RIPM)
RIPM in 2017
Chair: H. Robert Cohen (RIPM, Founder and Director, Baltimore)
Benjamin Knysak (Managing Associate Director, RIPM, Baltimore) and Nicoletta Betta (RIPM‐Italy, Assistant Editor, Turin)
RIPM in 2017
Peter Sühring (Berlin)
The origin and decline of Wagnerianism, as reflected in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik and the Leipziger Konzertsaal
Nicoletta Betta (RIPM‐Italy, Assistant Editor, Turin)
Riga in RIPM: Latvian musical life as depicted in the international press
Benjamin Knysak (Managing Associate Director, RIPM, Baltimore)
Cool cats and critics: a preview of RIPM Jazz Periodicals
14.00-15.30

Room 078,
Level -1

Outreach Committee
Working meeting (open)
Chair: Jon Bagüés (ERESBIL – Basque Archives of Music, Errenteria)
14.00-15.30

Room 076,
Level -1

Fontes artis musicae
Working meeting (closed)
Chair: Jim Cassaro (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA)
15.30-16.00

Level -1

Tea and coffee
16.00-17.30

Room 081 (B), Level -1

Music information literacy and mentoring
Presented by the Service and Training Section
Chair: Jane Gottlieb (IAML Vice President, The Julliard School, New York)
Elections
Erin Conor (Reed College, Portland, OR)
Music information literacy in the digital age: resolving student challenges
Janneka Guise and Katherine Penner (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg)
Counterpoint: an 8-year mentoring relationship
Discussion
16.00-17.30

Room 081 (D), Level -1

Traditional music
Presented by the Forum of Sections
Chair: Zdravko Blažeković (RILM International Center, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York)
Lynnsey Weissenberger (Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida)
Music information objects described by music practitioners: implications for organization and access of traditional musics
Janne Suits (Estonian Traditional Music Center, Viljandi)
The Estonian Traditional Music Library in Viljandi
16.00-17.30

Room 081 (C), Level -1

Documenting and promoting music
Presented by the Forum of Sections
Chair: Carolyn Dow (Lincoln City Libraries, Nebraska)
Paweł Nodzak (Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music, Gdańsk)
In the service for blind musicians – activities of Edwin Kowalik Music Society and Publishing House Toccata in Warsaw and their collections
Juan José Pastor (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real)
The Center for Music Research and Documentation, Associated Unit of Spanish National Research Council (CIDoM, Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC): objectives and digital projects
Christine-Ani Tokatlian (DEREE-The American College of Greece, Athens)
Armenian post-independence piano music: research in a dead-end (?). Limitations in publications or limited musical activity?
16.00-17.30

Room 076,
Level -1

Publications Committee
Working meeting (closed)
Chair: Joseph Hafner (IAML Vice President, McGill University, Montréal)
16.00-17.30

Room 078,
Level -1

Working Group on Access to Performance Ephemera
Working meeting (open)
Chair: Paul Banks (London, UK)
17.30-18.30 National Library of Latvia Tour
19.00 Ziedonis Hall, Level 1 Concert
State Choir LATVIJA