Abstracts for the conference

Bringing Museum Collections to the Internet to Present the Original Sound: A Digital Database Project at Beijing & Taipei

Dr CHAO, Nancy Hao-Ming (China)

The sound project of bringing Museum Collections to the Internet is intent to making music available to the public using parts of the collections of audio-visual research archives in different regions of the world.

This paper addresses and discusses two cases from Beijing & Taipei.

Museum of the Music Research Institute of Beijing was established in the early 1950s. Its missions, among others, are the creation, maintenance, and development of an extensive archive that includes musical instruments, manuscript, musical scores, audio and visual materials. In order to facilitate access to this vast quantity of material with the ultimate aim of promoting better communication and interaction both nationally and internationally, the institute has created a musical instruments digital database (MIDD) of its collection, a virtual archive "without walls" if you will. The MIDD aims to be comprehensive, including data that fall under the general categories of aural, musicological, historical, and sociological.

In Taiwan, the preparation and planning of Research Institute of musical heritage (RIMH) and the National Music Archive (NMA) start in 1990, after few years of efforts, it was established as a governmental institution in Minister in 2003. Furthermore, the Institute aims to expand its research scope into partnership with the university museums that collect music instrument. The main services of the RIMH are on collecting and investigating the materials of instrument music, folk songs and dance music of Taiwan. In the need of conservation and promotion, the NMA has been set up in alignment with RIMH. Combined with the latest technical innovations and Internet technology, the NMA provides digital and automatic services. The project explores the value of intangible cultural heritage, along with the significant challenges associated with documenting, preserving, and interpreting these resources.

Daoist (Taoist) Music in the Internet

Ms Koh Eunkang University of Oxford

Daoist (Taoist) Music in the Internet Koh Eunkang (University of Oxford) Museums in the internet have become world-wide. In Daoism (Taoism), a Chinese religion, The Taoist Culture and Information Centre website (http://www.taoism.org.hk ) plays the role of museum in the internet. It offers all kinds of information related to Daoism including information about Daoist philosophy, deities, temples, rituals and music. The music of the Hong Kong Daoist Orchestra is played in this website, which is run by the members of Fung Ying Seen Koon, a Daoist temple in Hong Kong. The visitors to the website can listen to Daoist music and read an explanation about Daoist music. The explanation about Daoist music on the website is based on the equation that Daoist music is ritual music. In other words, Daoist music is ritual music, which are the tunes played by the Hong Kong Daoist Orchestra. The ritual music actually used in Fung Ying Seen Koon is not shown on the website. The website suggests that Daoist music is orchestral music; the music of Hong Kong Daoist Orchestra is given as the model of Daoist music. Therefore, the people who visit the web site experience the orchestra's instrumental music as Daoist music whereas people who go to the temple have the opportunity to listen to Daoist priests' chanting accompanied by simple rhythmic instruments (faqi). In terms of Daoist music, The Taoist Culture and Information Centre website is not only the performance venue, in which Daoist music is played but also the place, in which the identity of Daoist music is constructed. In this sense, the Taoist

Culture and Information Centre website functions as Daoist music museum in virtual reality.

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An electing committee was formed during the business meeting in 2003, the list of suggested members was discussed and circulated in the last Bulletin. The suggestions are the following:

President: J. Kenneth Moore*, New York, USA

Ordinary Members:

*Incumbent, may serve for one further term of office

The Ballots will be sent out by mail and we kindly ask our voting members to send them back to the secretary Corinna Weinheimer as soon as possible.

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Rostock, Germany

In the first two weeks of July this year Richard Seraphinoff, Bob Barclay and Michael Münkwitz gave two trumpet-making work-shops at the Handwerskammer in Rostock, Germany. The trumpet used in this course is based upon Hanns Hainlein, Nurnbeg, 1632. 21 people from Germany, Switzerland, France and the United Kingdom attended, and all finished their instruments to a very high standard. Closing concerts on the Friday of each course featured music by Daniel Speer and Johann Petzel played on the completed trumpets. Workshops in Rostock and Kremsmünster, Austria are planned for the summer of next year. The contact person for these workshops is Michael Münkwitz: muenkwitz-rostock@t-online.de Also check the website: http://www.trompetenmacher.de The hand-book for the course, produced by the University of Edinburgh Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, is described in:

http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/uettp.html

R.L. Barclay

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Kloster Michaelstein, Germany

8-10 October 2004

The Horn – History and Musical Use

25th Musical Instrument Symposium, Michaelstein, Germany,

For more information see Bulletin no. 55.

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Michaelstein, Halle, Leipzig, and Freiberg, Germany, May 2005

Pre-conference programme on individual basis: Bach Festival Leipzig 29 April to 8 May 2005 (in connection with the 80th Bach Festival of the Neue Bachgesellschaft: Bach and the future

Tickets for the Leipzig Bach Festival 2005 can be ordered from 15th November 2004 by telephone, fax machine, email or mail under the following address: Bach-Archiv Leipzig, P.O. Box 101349; D-04013 Leipzig; Germany; bachfest@bach-leipzig.de; ticket@bach-leipzig.de ; Phone: +49-3 41-91 37-3 33 ; Fax: +49-3 41-91 37-3 35

The programme will be available from October 2004

From 6 - 8 May CIMCIM members are kindly invited to join the 26th Musical Instrument Making Symposium at Michaelstein, Germany. The theme of the symposium is the performance practise of vocal and instrumental music from 1500 to 1650.

Aufführungspraxis von Vokal- und Instrumentalmusik von 1500 bis 1650

XXXIII. Wissenschaftliche Arbeitstagung

Das niederländische und deutsche weltliche Lied

26. Musikinstrumentenbau-Symposium: "Instrumentenbauschulen um 1600"

For more information see

http://www.kloster-michaelstein.de/

Preliminary programme of the CIMCIM Meeting, Michaelstein:

May 8 Arrival and registration

20.00: "Musica Freybergensis":

Concert on the copies of the musical instruments of the Freiberg chapel (1694)

May 9 Excursion to Freiberg to visit the city, the cathedral and the original musical instruments from the Freiberg Chapel (see also Bulletin No. 52).

May 10-11 Paper sessions on the topic Musical Instrument Making as a Trade Factor

May 12 Halle, Händel-Haus: Visit to the new exhibition of musical instruments

May 13 Travel to Leipzig

10:00-12:00: Visits to the Mendelssohn-Haus and Schumann-Haus

12:00-15:00: Reception in the new concert hall of the Musical Instruments-Museum of the University Leipzig

15:00-17:00: Visits to the Bach Archive & Interim Exhibition of the MML

17:00-17 30: Coffee break in the museum

18.00: Thomas-Kirche: Motette performed by the Thomanerchor and Capella fidicinia (within the 15th festival of the music from the middleages and the renaissance)

May 14 10:00-13:00: Free

14.30 Bad Lauchstädt.: a performance of the opera Titus by W.A. Mozart in the historical Goethe-Theater

Evening : CIMCIM Farewell-Party

May 15 Departure

Possibilities for a post-conference program on individual basis: Visits to musical Instruments Collections in Nürnberg, Berlin, Markneukirchen, Prag, etc. The organisers of the conference will be happy to provide information for those interested.

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CD: Ruckers, Gormans, Broman. Improvisations by Mikko Korhonen on three harpsichord instruments.

This CD documents three harpsichord instruments from the collection of The Stockholm Music Museum: a virginal by Johannes Ruckers (1642), a small harpsichord by Johannes Gormans (1738), and a very large (3.58 metres) two manual harpsichord by the Swedish maker Johannes Broman (1756). Choosing improvisation as opposed to familiar repertoire has advantages for the performer wishing to illuminate the character of the instruments, rather than his interpretation of the works.

Illustrated booklet in Swedish and English, 24 pp. Total playing time: 76 minutes.

Price SEK 150.00 + postage. Order through: The Stockholm Music Museum, Box 16326, SE-103 26 Stockholm, Sweden. E-mail .

ARNOLD MYERS, RAYMOND PARKS: Large Mouthpieces for Brass Instruments 2nd edition. Historic Musical Instruments in the Edinburgh University Collection, Part H Fascicle v: Published July 2004. 71 pages. ISBN 0-907635-50-4. Price: Lstg 6.00.

BRENDA NEECE: Bows for Stringed Instruments. Historic Musical Instruments in the Edinburgh University Collection, Part C Fascicle ii: Published June 2004. 64 pages. ISBN 0-907635-49-0. Price: Lstg 6.00.

These prices (Lstg = pounds sterling) include postage to any country. Orders must be accompanied by remittance. Please remit by cheque payable to the University of Edinburgh, made out in pounds sterling, drawn on a U.K. bank. A form for VISA or MASTERCARD payment can be requested or printed from the Web at www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/

Despatch orders and remittance to:

The Collection Secretary, Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, U.K.

MICHAELSTEINER KONFERENZBERICHT: Geschichte, Bauweise und Spieltechnik der tiefen Streichinstrumente

Volume 64, post prints of the 21st Musical Instrument Making Symposium in Michaelstein, 17. - 19 November 2000; Editor: Monika Lustig, 228 pages, many illustrations and drawings in black and white. ISBN: 3-89512-123-1; Price: 29.80 Euro

The book can be ordered at: Kloster Michaelstein, Postfach 24, D-38881 Blankenburg, www.kloster-michaelstein.de

This volume is mainly concerned with the bass instruments of the bowed string instruments. The articles cover topics like the origin of the double bass in Spain, bass bows in the baroque, the acoustics of the double bass and others. Contributions are written by: Anders Askenfelt, Thomas Drescher, Josef Focht, Jobst P. Fricke, Xosé Crisnato Gándara, Dietrich Holz †, Oskar Kapplemeyer, Johannes Loescher, Karel Moens, Annette Otterstedt, Igor Pecevski, Hans Reiners, Thomas Schiegnitz, and Gunter Ziegenhals.

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René de Maeyer, Platenstrasse 2, D-97072 Würzburg, Fax/Tel +49 931 880 56 11

E-mail: rdemaeyer@t-online.de or rdemaeyer@gmx.de
E-mail addresses:
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Corinna Weinheimer: corinna.weinheimer@ringve.no

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Please send your contributions, preferably by e-mail, by 31st October to the editor:

Corinna Weinheimer
Ringve Museum
Pb 3064 Lade
N-7441 Trondheim, Norway
Fax: +47 73 87 02 81
e-mail corinna.weinheimer@ringve.no

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