The National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM), through its Documentation Center of Music and Dance (CDMyD), has introduced its new electronic publication: the Map of Musical Heritage in Spain.
The project aims to provide a directory with about 360 institutions throughout the Spanish territory that protect this important aspect of our culture. Thus the map responds to various information needs introduced by scholars and citizens interested in the musical heritage: where o find it, what forms do they have, how to access them and what specialized literaturehas been generated by catalogues and studies .
The directory has been elaborate on the bases of two of the databases of CDMyD -Resources of Music in Spain and Bibliography of Spanish Musical. The directory helps to locate funds and documents that the user might need. For this task the directory counts with the contirbution of work undertaken by the International Directory of Musical Sources (RISM-Spain), and other more recent such as the project Access to Music Archives (AMA-Grupo español) of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (AIBM / IALM), dedicated to promoting access to documents of composers, musicians, choirs, opera companies, music conservatories, music publishers.
How it works
The map shows the location of archives, libraries, documentation centers and research and museum collections throughout the Spanish territory; navigation is done through the Google Maps application. One research application facilitates access to specific content, providing results in both map and list of institutions. From either of these access points users can display records that contain location data of the institution, a description of their backgrounds, links to the catalog or inventory w(hen they exist), as well as the international code RISM, plus a specific bibliography.
Close to a thousand bibliographic entries
The directory has close to a thousand bibliographic entries, 867 sheets linked to institutions and nearly a hundred in the section on general literature; the latter is classified by province and it offers information on various aspects of musical heritage.
The project is intended to continue expanding its content and scope in several directions: collecting expressions of intangible heritage, including the institutions that guard Spanish equity funds outside our territory or to serve as census-inventory of over 2,500 historic organs preserved in our country.
Source localization
From now on, thanks to th work of the Documentation Center of Music and Dance INAEM, it will be easy and accessible from any electronic platform to locate the sources that make up our musical heritage and to study and disseminate it, either in concerts, publications and recordings.
The presentation of this new publication took place on Friday 21 November in the context of the symposium "The management of musical heritage", organized by the Documentation Centre for Music and Dance, and whose closure was chaired by Montserrat Iglesias, Director General of INAEM.
http://www.mecd.gob.es/prensa-mecd/actualidad/2014/11/20141128-mapa.html