The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 51,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 12 Film Festivals
Analysis of compositions has long been one of the mainstays of Western musicology. What, in turn, are the mainstays of analysis? We recently checked RILM’s database to see which works have inspired the largest numbers of analytical studies.
The hands-down winner is Bach’s Das wohltemperierte Klavier, BWV 846–93, with 112 analyses—perhaps not terribly surprising since the work comprises 48 preludes and fugues, some of which are fiendishly complex. The rest of the top ten are:
2. Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (75 analytical studies)
3. Debussy’s Préludes (45)
4. Bach’s Die Kunst der Fugue, BWV 1080 (31)
5. Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (29)
6. Beethoven’s symphony no. 9, op. 125 (29)
7. Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire, op. 21 (27)
8. Mozart’s symphony no. 40, K.550 (26)
9. Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps (23)
10. Schubert’s Die Winterreise, D. 911 (22)
Above, part of the manuscript for Das wohltemperierte Klavier; below, Woody Allen discusses aspects of analysis.
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 26,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 10 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
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Related article: 2010 in review
Below is an automatically generated report from our buddies at WordPress; we enjoyed it, and decided to share it with you.
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 17,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 4 fully loaded ships.
In 2010, there were 134 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 164 posts. There were 210 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 47mb. That’s about 4 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was May 4th with 689 views. The most popular post that day was Mozart’s flyswatter.
The top referring sites in 2010 were facebook.com, mail.yahoo.com, twitter.com, google.com, and mail.live.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for petrucci music library, petrucci library, curt sachs, liszt caricature, and magrepha.
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Mozart’s flyswatter March 2010
4 comments
Not a universal language August 2010
2 comments and 2 Likes on WordPress.com
Petrucci Music Library May 2010
Defining the folk June 2010
Ethnomusicological bananas May 2010
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In an effort to provide more complete and nuanced bibliographic resources to researchers, RILM is inviting authors to review their publications in the database, create new records, and revise existing records. Through this link, and following the link for “submissions by individuals,” authors can interact directly with the database. An author search lists all entries by the searched author in reverse chronological order, providing a synoptic view of publication history. By opening each record, authors can view the contents and add or revise as they see fit. It is also possible to attach new reviews to records, and to add second abstracts in other languages. Authors can also create new records, and they are especially encouraged to do so. Questions can be directed to questions@rilm.org.
Filed under RILM
Thanks to funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Magazine Fund, the SOCAN Foundation Publications Assistance Program, and the Canada Periodical Fund, Musicworks has been issuing articles, reviews, and scores focusing on Canadian music since 1978; since 1983, issues have included sound recordings as well. While Canadian composers and performers are most often featured, the magazine also covers Canadian traditional music in both native and non-native cultures.
Recently Musicworks sent us a full run of their back issues; now we are confident that all of their articles are fully covered by RILM.
Filed under 20th- and 21st-century music, Music magazines, RILM news
Beethoven-Haus in Bonn is one of RILM’s newest subscribers. Besides maintaining a museum in the house where the composer was born and keeping up with writings about him and his works, the organization offers an online digital archive where visitors can listen to Beethoven’s music and view manuscripts, correspondence, and images—over 5,000 documents on 26,000 scans and about 7,600 text files and 1,600 audio files.
Filed under Architecture, Classic era, Resources, RILM news
In 2004 the diversity among the staff at RILM’s International Center inspired the idea of compiling a cookbook, and the following year we quietly published Dining with RILM in a limited edition.
In her preface, Tina Frühauf,the book’s Editor-in-Chief, gives mouth-watering examples of RILM entries involving food—from David Tudor’s spice cabinet to Japanese rice planting ceremonies to the roles of eating and drinking in Verdi’s operas. Many of the recipes are music-related, if sometimes rather fancifully so (e.g., “A Faustian margarita”). Copies of this rare compendium are available from the International Center, though this information is not on our website—it’s a blog exclusive!
The cover photograph, reproduced above, was taken by our former Managing Editor, Murat Eyuboğlu. You are invited to post your own favorite music-related recipes below.
Filed under Food, From the archives, RILM
Before RILM set up online forms for sending us citations and abstracts, all submissions were made by writing or typing on forms like the one pictured above. We had forms in all necessary languages, color-coded for sorting. As was the case with most manual typewriters, corrections and diacritics all had to be added by hand. After we received completed forms, everything had to be retyped into the database (and, for non-English titles and abstracts, translated into English) at the International Center.
Over the years, countless volunteers have made such contributions to RILM, including some very distinguished figures in musicology and ethnomusicology. The example above was submitted by the preeminent Spanish musicologist José López-Calo (b.1922) for the retrospective project undertaken by RILM’s founder Barry S. Brook in the 1970s—a project that finally reached fruition with the publication of Speaking of Music: Music conferences, 1835–1966 in 2004. (Click on the image, or here, to see a larger reproduction.)
Filed under From the archives, RILM
RILM has just inaugurated its series RILM perspectives with Music’s intellectual history: 66 essays offering insights into the history of music scholarship from the Renaissance to the twentieth century and demonstrating the natural partnership of RILM and historiographic investigation. The contributions address an array of subjects and perspectives that indicate the directions music scholarship has taken in the past, reveal the precedents of current scholarly habits, and suggest future paths. The articles began life as papers presented at RILM’s first conference. A full table of contents is here.
Filed under New series, RILM, RILM news
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