New Issue of Musikbiblioteksnytt, the Swedish IAML Magazine (2015, no.2)

The following has reached us from Lena Nettelbladt, editor of Musikbiblioteksnytt:

If you want to look at the latest issue from the Swedish IAML magazine Musikbiblioteksnytt you cand find it here:

http://www.smbf.nu/dok/mbn/mbn_2015_02.pdf

Summary in English:

The Swedish IAML annual meeting gathered around 35 members. The day continued with a course about music and the Middle Ages. First we listened to a lecture about archives in the City Archives of Stockholm and especially about their collection of medieval book fragments. Jan Brunius demonstrated the database of medieval book fragments in The National Archives (Riksarkivet). Karin Strinnholm Lagergren told us about Gregorian chant and she also taught us to sing from neumes. We visited The Medieval Museum in Stockholm and went for a guided tour in the Old town and had dinner at a restaurant serving medieval food. Further reading in this issue:

 • Anders Cato tells us about his new work at the Culture Board in Denmark. He is responsible for bibliographic work and for the implementation of RDA.

• The association KVAST, which means female accumulation of Swedish composers, and FST Association of Swedish composers, features repertoire statistics on how many minutes music composed by female composers have been played in publicly funded concert halls in Sweden during 2014/15.

• The conductor Herbert Blomstedt has donated his collection, filling around 500 meters of shelf space, to Gothenburg University Library. The opening ceremony took place in May. Herbert Blomstedt talked about his lifelong commitment, collecting books, entitled Lying head to toe with Shakespeare.

• The librarian Olle Johansson is also a music lover and a record collector and he has written down his memories with travels and music listening.

• Mats Holmquist, has made a bibliography of books on Swedish jazz together with the jazz department at the Svenskt visarkiv. bit.ly/1QUJybV 

• Stefan Wistrand has started lending out old vinyl in his public library. He made a selection of 650 LP in the genres pop, rock, jazz, folk, blues, country and folk.

• In UNESCO’s program Memory of the world, Musikverket (Swedish Performing Arts Agency) has suggested two collections to be nominated: recordings made by Karl Tirén (1869–1955) with songs so called jojks from the sami people in the north of Sweden and a collection of handwritten and printed music from the Swedish composer Johan Helmich Roman (1694–1758).