BRIEFS / FEUILLETONS

Because of his undiscovered talents and that he had to make ends meet, he developed a career as a violinist in the Athens State Orchestra. The Irving S. Gilmore Music Library is pleased to announce the completion of an eighteenth-month project, generously funded by a grant from the Grammy Museum, focused on preserving approximately 335 hours of unique non-commercial audio, predominantly from 1937 to 1956, featuring music by Charles Ives (1874-1954). The Muscat project was initiated in 2002 by the United Kingdom working group of RISM and then developed further by RISM Switzerland. Since early 2014, Muscat has been developed in collaboration with the RISM Central Office in Frankfurt, and since 2016, it is the official RISM cataloguing application. Music cataloguing was handwritten on forms which were then typed up for batch input into a mainframe computer owned by a third party, with monthly diagnostic printouts for proofreading; corrections could be made a month later, on the next cycle; catalogue records did not appear on the ensuing microfiche unless they had a shelfmark.