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IAML Annua! Conference 1-7 July 1979 in Salzburg Réunion annuelle de l'AIBM 1-7 Juillet 1979 à Salzburg/ Jahrestagung der IVMB 1 -7 Juli 1979 in Salzburg

For the second time the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum in Salzburg kindly offered to provide the setting for a IAML conference. In 1967 when we first met there, the proceedings were attended by some 130 persons from 19 countries - and the "starke Beteiligung" was specially noted in the report in Fontes 15/1, 1968, p. 34. Twelve years later, the number of participants had grown to around 230, the countries to 26. Even though the latter figures include our colleagues from IASA (see separate report below), they clearly indicate the expansion and the opening up of the association that have taken place in the last decade - as well, no doubt, as the attractions of the meeting place. If this influx of people and the myriad of meetings (no less striking a development as one looks at the 1967 report) posed any problems for the local organizers, they hid it well. Dr. Rudolph Angermüller (chairman of the arrangements committee), Frau Geneviève Geffray (secretary), and their colleagues at the Tagungs büro earned everyone's gratitude for their way of coping with the thousand-and-one details and the unreasonable last-minute requests that conference organizers have to cope with, and making us feel at home in the bargain. Without the interest and support of the Foundation's President, Kommerzialrat Richard Spängier, and his fellow Board members, as well as of the ORF, Studio Salzburg, the confer ence could not have taken place, and thanks are due also to the Stadtbücherei Salzburg, and the

national, regional, and local authorities for their generous assistance. In addition to the regular working sessions and the two Board and two Council meetings (minutes

of the latter are given below), the opening session was marked by lectures from the former IAML and current IASA Presidents (Schallaufzeichnungen als musikgeschichtliche Quellen, by Harald Heckmann

[published below] and Eighty years of sound archivism, Ten years of IASA, by Rolf L. Schuursma), interspersed with movements of Mozart's D-major sonata for two pianos (K. 448) and Milhaud's Bra zileira (from the Scaramouche suite) expertly played by the Klavierduo Mrongovius. Later in the week Hans Martin Corrinth gave an organ recital in the Mozarteum, with a program spanning the years from F. Couperin to Corrinth (improvisation on a given theme). The week concluded with the mountain-top farewell dinner that seems to be developing into a 1AML/IASA tradition (though one wonders, per haps, about Cambridge . . .), and a pleasantly unhurried excursion to the Kremsmünster monastery.

(Although not part of the official program, it must also be recorded that the real ending for some of us came the next day when the association's nestor, Otto Albrecht, celebrated his 80th birthday in a circle of friends at Helga and Wolfgang Rehm's apartment.)

Earlier, in mid-week, IAML's future was the subject of a 3-hour open discussion (very well attended but somewhat hampered by the acoustics) which touched on administrative reforms, statutes, financial

priorities, Fontes and other publications, national branches, and ways and means of extending IAML's

sphere of activities to the Third World. Some of the concrete proposals will be incorporated in the draft revised By-Laws, others should be developed further (cf. the Council minutes). It is clear in any case that there is no dearth of ideas or lack of concern for the future of the association among IAML's conference participants. Providing an opportunity to exchange ideas and voice concerns was perhaps not the least important function of the session.

Council meetings, 31 June and 6 July, 1979, in Salzburg, Austria

1st session

1. General Secretary's report. IAML's membership figures have continued to rise: in June, 1979,

they total 1,743, an increase of 70 during the past year. The major gains have been made in the USA

(+ 35) and, above all, in Japan, where a remarkable increase from 15 to 53 members testifies to the

successful efforts of Prof. Murai and her colleagues. A Japanese Branch was founded in June, 1979

(Kazuyuki Toyama, President; Noriko Murai, Secretary). In Finland, too, a National Branch was estab

lished this year (Kauko Karjalainen, President; Hannele Rantamäki-Moilanen, Secretary-Treasurer).

A new List of Members was published at the end of 1978. A revised listing of IAML National

Branches, Professional Branches, and Working Committees appeared in Fontes 26/1, 1979: it will be

updated annually. In accordance with a Council decision in Lisbon, a Questionnaire to Professional Branches and

Working Committees was circulated early in 1979, requesting information about current projects and

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plans for the next 3-5 years. The idea was to obtain a better view of the Association's activities as a

whole, to help to improve communications between members of different commissions and avoid

duplication of effort and to provide a basis for discussing priorities (not least financial ones). A sum

mary of the replies has been prepared and will be distributed at the open session on IAML's future

during the conference. (Copies are available to all IAML members from the General Secretary.) -

When appropriate, the replies have been circulated to the Project Group on Objectives and Procedures

and the Project Group (Planning). The first group (Heinz Werner, chairman) has continued its work on

revising the By-Laws. The second (Richard Andrewes, chairman), set up last year (cf. Council minutes

1978, 1st session, item 4, Fontes 26/2, 1979, p. 82), has held preliminary discussions by letter and will meet twice in Salzburg. Both groups will report at the open session.

The following developments in our contacts with other international associations may be reported: (a) IFLA, see item 2 below.

(b) International Musicological Society: After a complaint by an IMS member, IAML was ap

proached by the IMS President, Ludwig Finscher, regarding library restrictions on the supply of micro film. The matter was referred to the Research Libraries Commission, whose draft statement on this

problem (cf. item 12 below) was approved by the IMS President. There is a possibility that it may be

adopted as a joint IAML/IMS statement.

(c) International Music Council: IAML is one of the consultative organizations in the World History of Music project. A meeting scheduled to take place in Paris in June 1979, and to be attended by IAML President Barry Brook, was postponed at the last moment. The project will be on the agenda at

the IMC General Assembly in Melbourne, Australia, 1-3 October, 1979, where IAML will be repre sented by Brook. - For the WISMI project, see item 7.

(d) The General Secretary has been in touch with the Société internationale des bibliothèques

musées des arts du spectacle (SIBMAS) about their projected computerized documentation system for

dramatic performances. Information has been promised when SIBMAS's plans have matured.

(e) The General Secretary has arranged to attend the conference of the International Folk Music

Council (IFMC) in Oslo, Norway, at the end of July 1979, to explore the possibilities of future co

operation. - In the discussion of this point, cataloguing and classification of folk materials was men

tioned as a potentially fruitful area.

At the funeral of the Association's co-founder and Président d'honneur, Vladimir Fédorov, in Paris

on 13 April 1979, the IAML Board was represented by Harald Heckmann.

2. IAML and IFLA. Maria Calderisi and Don L. Roberts reported from the 44th IFLA (Interna tional Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) Council in Strbské Pleso, Czechoslovakia, 27 August to 2 September, 1978 (cf. the former's account in Fontes 26/2, 1979, p. 132-133). Mem

bership in Standing Committees of IFLA Sections is probably the most effective way of promoting the

interests of music librarianship. Progress has been made in this direction: Calderisi was elected to the

SC of the Section on Bibliography in April, 1979; Roberts holds observer status in the SC of the Sec

tion on Library Schools and Other Training Aspects and attended its meeting in February in London.

It was stressed that members of a Standing Committee are elected as independent experts and are not

seen by IFLA as representing this or that institution or organization. It is therefore important to

ensure continuity in the IAML delegation, so that its members can make their presence felt as in

dividuals. Some doubts were voiced about the role of the provisional Music Round Table: could it serve its

intended purpose of a forum for contacts between music librarians and general librarians, or would it

be better to concentrate on making an impact in the Sections? After discussion, it was agreed to leave

it to the IAML delegation at the IFLA Congress in Copenhagen, 27 August - 1 September, 1979, to

decide whether the Round Table should be discontinued or be made permanent. 3. Treasurer's report. The accounts for 1978 and the budget for 1979 had been circulated in ad

vance. The Treasurer stressed that IAML is operating at a loss and that reserves will be depleted by 1980, when an increase in the dues must be sought. Anthony Hodges questioned the present order of

priorities in IAML's expenditures and suggested that more money needed to be set aside for other pur poses than Fontes. The President, summarizing the previous day's extensive Board discussion of the financial situation, made the following points: (a) The money retained from the membership dues by the National Branches is intended primarily for the Branch's international business. The Board will

investigate whether the percentage can be increased to a uniform 20% for all Branches from 1981, but additional money for national affairs must be sought within the country, from local or national

authorities, foundations, or by other means, (b) One such means might be for national branches to solicit advertisements for Fontes from publishing firms, record companies, and the like; part of the in

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come would be kept by the branch, part would go towards the production costs, (c) Among other mea

sures to be investigated by the Treasurer are: a cut-back in the number of pages and/or issues of Fontes;

changes in layout and/or typography and/or a new cover design; a special 10-year back-number offer

(perhaps in microform) at a reduced price. In conclusion, the President stressed that full use is not

being made of the Association's journal, and asked each commission to appoint one person to regularly send reports to Fontes concerning its activities.

On a question by Anthony Hodges, the President mentioned that money for assisting Third World

representatives to come to IAML meetings was sought from Unesco for Lisbon but without success:

new efforts will be made. François Lesure agreed to discuss the matter with Unesco in Paris. At the

IMC meeting in Australia, the President will encourage individuals to request funds in their own coun

tries. Richard Andrewes announced that the British Council might be willing to sponsor one or two

African delegates for the Cambridge Congress. Maria Calderisi pointed out that an approach to musical

organizations via the IMC should be supplemented by one to libraries through IFLA and offered a list

of national libraries that might be used. 4. Fontes. In continuation of the previous discussion, Rita Benton reported that she was receiving

more contributions than before, but not from all countries and commissions. The last volume had

gone beyond the number of pages originally agreed on, and she would accept some cutting back if

necessary. The question of a separate newsletter was raised; however, in the editor's experience, news

items and brief communications were the most difficult material to get, and the general feeling of the

Council was that the costs of preparing, producing, and distributing a newsletter would probably be

no less than for the corresponding sections of Fontes and it would be no less difficult to keep it

current. On a proposal by the General Secretary, the Council decided that National Branches should be

required to submit an annual report on their activities; these could be published in full or in part. 5. Hermann Wassner, Bundesrepublik Deutschland Branch, announced that the Deutscher Biblio

theksverband can no longer support Musikbibliothek aktuell, the newsletter of the Public Libraries

Commission's Sub-Commission on Reference and Community Services. Instead, the Branch proposes to issue a journal of its own, Forum Musikbibliothek, devoted to all kinds of music libraries in the

country. Heinz Werner reported on similar plans for a journal of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik

Branch, to be named Musikbibliothek.

6. Future meetings. The dates of the 12th Congress in Cambridge, England, at the invitation of the

UK Branch, will be 3-9 August 1980. For the 1981 Budapest conference, the first three weeks of

September are possible, the IMC General Assembly being scheduled for the last week of that month.

A preference for the 2nd week was expressed by Council members. For the Brussels conference in

1982 Bernard Huys suggested the first half of July. US representatives declared that the Library of

Congress might be willing to host a meeting in Washington D.C. in May 1983 of the Music Library

Association, IAML, IASA, and the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, provided that the

four associations were agreeable and that the practical arrangements could be worked out. No formal

invitation had been issued as yet. 7. The President reported on developments on the WISMI project (World Inventory of Sources of

Musical Information), which had been adopted by the IMC. A revised "master plan" with data sche

mata prepared by the President had been circulated to the IMC membership and was used by some

countries in compiling their own guides. It was agreed that consultations might be held with the Music

Information Centres, as the IAML commission most closely concerned.

8. Kurt Dorfmüller raised the question of Council representation of the various groups now gathered

under the umbrella of the Cataloguing Commission (cf. Council minutes 1978, 2nd session, item 3,

Fontes 26/2, 1979, p. 83). Are they to be regarded as semi-autonomous commissions, each entitled to

a representative on the Council, or are they to be represented collectively by the Cataloguing Com

mission? There was considerable reluctance to enlarge further the number of Council members - the

body was felt to be large enough as it is - but awaiting clarification of this matter in the revised By

Laws, it was agreed to allow the groups observer status.

2nd session

9. The President announced that a special program committee had been appointed by the Board to

consider topics for Cambridge and Budapest (Michael Ochs, Chairman, Richard Andrewes, ex officio

local representative, Harald Heckmann, André Jurres, Anders Lönn, ex officio). The Council approved

a request of the UK organizing committee to limit the working sessions in Cambridge to 1 1/2 hours.

10. Elections and appointments. Anna Van Steenbergen, Music Information Centres, reported that

Margaret F. Jory, American Music Center, had been elected Secretary of the MIC Professional Branch.

The Council appointed the following new officers of Working Committees:

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Cataloguing Commission: Brian Redfern, School of Librarianship, Polytechnic of North London, Chairman; Lenore Coral, Mills Music Library, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Secretary ;

Working Group on Computer Cataloguing: Patrick Mills, British Catalogue of Music, Chairman ;

Working Group on International Standard Bibliographic Description (Non-book materials): Lenore

Coral, Secretary. In addition to the Chairman (representing the Classification Sub-Commission) and Secretary, the

Cataloguing Commission will consist of the following members: Patrick Mills, Heinz Lanzke (ISBD

[Printed music]; with Yvette Fédoroff as alternate), Garrett Bowles (ISBD [NBM]; alternate, Lenore

Coral), Kurt Dorfmüller (RISM Advisory Research Committee), Anders Lönn (RILM Thesaurus Sub

Commission; alternate, Judith Kaufman). The Council approved a proposal by the Commission for Bibliographical Research to discontinue

its Sub-Commission on Terminology; this topic will now be handled by the Commission as a whole. The Research Libraries Commission announced its wish to set up a group to study the draft ISBD(A) - i.e. older monographic publications - and its implications for music: no formal decision was taken on the status and composition of such a group.

11. On a proposal of the Broadcasting Libraries Commission, the Council decided that this Pro fessional Branch should be opened to librarians of orchestral societies, opera companies, and other

performing organizations, a category that had hitherto lacked a forum in IAML.

12. The Research Libraries Commission's Report on the supply and use of microfilm, adopted by the Commission in Salzburg, was approved by the Council. It should be translated and disseminated as widely as possible. (Cf. also item 1 above.)

13. The results of the open meeting on IAML's future and their consequences for the ongoing revision of the By-Laws were considered. It was agreed that the Project Group (Planning) should con tinue its work, and that those proposals which necessitate changes in the statutes should be communi cated to the Project Group on Objectives and Procedures and included as alternatives in the draft statutes submitted to the General Assembly.

14. It was decided not to appoint a nominating committee for the elections to the IAML Board

in 1980 (as had been suggested by the Planning group), since this is not in conformity with the

present By-Laws. Council members were invited to send nominations to the General Secretary, who

will circulate them to the Council well in advance of the Cambridge meeting. The final slate shall be

drawn up by the Council at its first meeting in Cambridge. 15. With regard to IAML's finances, the President repeated some of the points made during the

previous discussion. The dues paid to belong to the international association cannot also support the

full range of activities of a national body - additional funds must be sought within the country. At

the same time, IAML does have a responsibility towards the National Branches; it recognizes the difficul ties that some of them are facing and the Treasurer will examine a number of concrete proposals for

raising money (cf. item 3). However, Fontes must not be thought of as something that robs national branches: it is the voice of the association, and as such an essential part of it. And without the inter national association, the RISM, RILM, RIdIM, and other large-scale projects could not have come about - projects that have created jobs for music librarians in many countries.

16. Brian Redfern reported that the Publications Committee had met to consider the Anthologie de la critique musicale (reprints of reviews of first performances in different countries of selected

"key" works), a project co-sponsored by the Commission for Bibliographical Research. The Council

accepted the Committee's recommendation that the series be published "with the collaboration of the Commission for Bibliographical Research of the International Association of Music Libraries".

Participants (in both sessions unless marked by I or II):

Richard Andrewes, Chairman, Project Group (Planning); Rita Benton, Editor, Fontes; Barry S.

Brook, President, IAML, President, RILM and RIdIM ; Maria Calderisi, Past-President, Canadian Branch, IAML delegate to IFLA; Maria Fernanda Cidrais Rodrigues, Portugal (II); Eric Cooper, President, Public Libraries Commission; Wim Dijk, President, Dutch Branch; Mariangela Donà, President, Italian Branch (I); Kurt Dorfmüller, Outgoing Chairman, Cataloguing Commission; William Elias, Israel (II); Rudolf Elvers, President, Research Libraries Commission; Eva-Brit Fanger, Danish Branch (I); Franz

Grasberger, Austria (II); Gertraut Haberkamp, Vice-President, Commission for Bibliographical Re search (II); Harald Heckmann, Past-President, IAML; Anthony Hodges, President, Commission of Libraries in Academies, Conservatories and Colleges of Music; Bernard Huys, Belgium; André Jurres, associate editor, Fontes, Past-President, IAML; Kauko Karjalainen, President, Finnish Branch (II); Jânos Kârpâti, President, Hungarian Branch ; Karl-Heinz Köhler, Vice-President, IAML, President, DDR Branch (I); Bengt Kyhlberg, President, Broadcasting Libraries Commission, President, Swedish Branch; François Lesure, President, Commission for Bibliographical Research (I); Anders Lönn, General Secre

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tary, IAML; José Löpez-Calo, Spain (II); Miriam Miller, President, UK Branch; Noriko Murai, Secre

tary, Japanese Branch; Prue Neidorf, President, Australia and New Zealand Branch; Michael Ochs, Chairman, Program Committee (part of II); Jitrenka Peskova, Secretary, CSSR Branch; Maria Prokopo wicz, President, Polish Branch; Brian Redfern, Vice-President, IAML, Chairman, Publications Commit

tee; Wolfgang Rehm, Treasurer, IAML; Don L. Roberts, Chairman, Commission on Education and

Training, IAML delegate to IFLA; Harold E. Samuel, President, US Branch; Tua Standahl Opsahl, President, Norwegian Branch; Anna Van Steenbergen, President, Music Information Centres; Elisabeth

Strandbygaard, Treasurer, Danish Branch (II); Hermann Wassner, President, Bundesrepublik Deutsch land Branch; Heinz Werner, Chairman, Project Group on Objectives and Procedures, Secretary, DDR

Branch; Thor E. Wood, Past-President, IAML.

Anders Lönn, General Secretary

Schallaufzeichnungen als musikgeschichtliche Quellen* Harald Heckmann (Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv, Frankfurt a/M)

Die Musik, die wir soeben gehört haben, ist im gedruckten Programm ausgewiesen als

der 2. Satz der D-dur Sonate für zwei Klaviere von Mozart. Ob sie für alle Zuhörer gleich

geklungen hat?

Ihr Komponist hat in einem Brief an seinen Vater am 16. Dezember 1780 geschrieben,

der Vater möge über die Popularität seiner jüngsten Oper nicht besorgt sein, „denn in

meiner Oper ist Musick fir aller Gattung leute; — ausgenommen fir lange ohren nicht".

„Lange Ohren" gibt es im Kreise der hier Versammelten gewiß nicht. Aber ebenso ge

wiß ist, daß hier verschiedener „Gattung Leute" anwesend sind, und es ist nicht ohne

Reiz, darüber nachzudenken, wie verschieden das, was hier gespielt wurde, in deren ver

schiedenen Ohren geklungen haben mag.

Den schlichten Musikfreund können wir dabei außer acht lassen, den findet man kaum

bei einem Kongreß von Musikbibliothekaren und Schallarchivaren.

Für den Musikologen, an den Mozart kaum gedacht haben wird, der aber hier in großer

Zahl vorkommt, erklang Mozarts Werk für zwei Klaviere, das er mutmaßlich für eine Pri

vatakademie des Jahres 1781 geschrieben hat, und zwar auf 13 Blättern mit 23 beschrie

benen Seiten im Querformat, zwölfzeilig rastriert, die unter der Signatur Autogr. V/121

Nr. 5 in der Kunstsammlung der Veste Coburg aufbewahrt werden.

Für den Musikbibliothekar — die Musikbibliothekare machen die Majorität hier im

Saale aus — erklang die Realisierung eines Stückes aus der Serie IX, Werkgruppe 24, Ab

teilung 1, der Neuen Mozart-Ausgabe, 1955 unter der Nummer BA 4501 bei Bärenreiter

erschienen.

Für den Schallarchivar schließlich - die Schallarchivare halten hier so etwas wie eine

Sperrminorität — hat sich, sehr vereinfacht ausgedrückt, etwa folgendes ereignet: Grob

geschätzt etwa 400 Klaviersaiten zweier Flügel sind durch die zweimal zehn Finger der

beiden Pianisten auf außerordentlich kunstvolle Weise in Schwingungen versetzt worden

und haben dadurch die Moleküle der Luft dieses Raumes ihrerseits in Schwingungen ver

setzt, die Moleküle, die sich ohnehin in dauernder, thermisch bedingter, ungeordneter

* Vortrag, gehalten bei der Eröffnung der Jahrestagung von IAML und 1ASA am 1. Juli 1979 im

Mozarteum in Salzburg. Der Vortrag wurde umrahmt durch den 2. und den 3. Satz der Sonate für

zwei Klaviere, D-dur, KV 448 von W.A. Mozart.

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