Nach Abschluß eines fünfjährigen Projektes steht der Zettelkatalog der Musikabteilung der französischen Nationalbibliothek nun online zur Verfügung. Er verzeichnet über eine halbe Million handschriftlicher und gedruckter Titel aus dem Zeitraum zwischen dem 16. Jahrhundert und 1991.
I am pleased to announce that after five years of an intensive work, the Music Department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France has just completed the retroconversion of its main card Catalogue : the 560.584 converted records may be searched and displayed in the online General Catalogue of the Library.
The ressources described – manuscript and printed music, treatises, methods, critical works, archives, programs, newspaper cuttings – entered the Library between the 16th century and 1991. They enable to study a definite work – from its conception to its reception – as well as researches on French musical life, edition and diffusion of sheet music, organology, performer’s work and social condition of musicians.
Readers will find, among other ressources, the rich collection of canon Sébastien de Brossard (1655-1730), rare musical editions and treatises of the 15th and 16th century, the quite complete production of 19th musical French edition as well as working libraries of composers, performers or musicologists.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Laurence Decobert, 17.01.2013/jl
