commissions internationales de travail: research libraries commission

Commissions Internationales de Travail: Research Libraries CommissionAuthor(s): Rita Benton, Thor E. Wood, Dietrich Lotichius, John H. Davies, Kurt Dorfmüller,François Lesure and Keith C. MacMillanSource: Fontes Artis Musicae, Vol. 16, No. 1/2 (1969 JANUAR-JUNI), pp. 12-19Published by: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres(IAML)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23505073 .

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12 COMMISSIONS INTERNATIONALES DE TRAVAIL

Notre Trésorier, Wolfgang Rehm, qui regrette de ne pouvoir prendre lui-même part à cette Assem

blée générale, m'a chargé de vous faire à sa place un rapport sur la situation financière de notre

Association. Pour simplifier les choses, je ne vous donnerai ici que des sommes globales, mais il va

de soi que je suis prêt à tout moment de répondre à vos questions et à vous donner tous les détails

précis que vous pourrez souhaiter.

Le rapport financier présenté à Dijon disait qu'au 31 décembre 1964 nous avions en caisse la somme

de DM 1.900.—. Il faut ajouter à cela les DM 60.000— qui nous sont parvenues depuis et qui

représentent d'une part les cotisations de nos membres, d'autre part la vente de quelques numéros

isolés des Fontes.

Ont également été encaissées les subventions suivantes:

DM 6.700.— de la part du Conseil international de la Musique DM 3.000.— de la part du Ministère des affaires étrangères de la R.F.A.

DM 9.000.— destinées à la préparation et à la publication des comptes-rendus de notre Congrès

dijonnais

Enfin, DM 1.500.— nous ont été remises comme la part qui nous revient de la vente des premiers volumes du RISM.

Tout ceci, y compris les intérêts et les soldes créditeurs annuels, donne un total de revenues de

l'ordre de DM 81.000.—.

Les dépenses suivantes sont d'autre part à signaler:

pour les Fontes, y compris l'année 1967 DM 57.000.—

honoraires, frais de bureau et divers administratifs DM 17.000.—

publication de la Liste des membres DM 1.500.—

frais de déplacements DM 1.700.—

réclamation des cotisations et divers s'y rapportant DM 500.—

Total des dépenses au 31 décembre 1967 DM 77.700.—

Solde pour Tannée 1968 DM 5.053.14

Pour ce qui concerne Tannée en cours, nous avions en caisse au 30 août 1968 DM 16.878.43. Une

grande partie de cette somme sera néanmoins englobée par la publication des prochains cahiers des

Fontes.

Pour nous résumer, nous pouvons affirmer que grâce à la prudence et à l'habilité de notre Trésorier

nos finances sont en ordre. Nous le devons évidemment aussi à la croissance régulière du nombre de

nos membres. Si cette croissance continue normalement, elle nous permettra d'améliorer la présentation et la périodicité de notre revue, ainsi que de mieux faire face à nos multiples tâches.

Harald Heckmann

Commissions Internationales de Travail

Research Libraries Commission

Fifteen members and observers were present at the Amsterdam Gallery of Lincoln Center on Sunday

morning, 8 September, The Directory of Music Research Libraries (Part I) sponsored by the Com

mission is having a slow but steady sale, and it is hoped that this will continue at a rate sufficient to

encourage the University of Iowa to also publish the next part. Some discussion of A. H. King's kind

review of Part I (in Notes XXIV, March 1968, pp. 489—490) yielded the following conclusions: since the RISM is itself devoted to listings of libraries' holdings, the Directory's primary responsibility is not to duplicate this type of information, but rather to supply essential details about the physical conditions under which a library operates and to list published literature about the library. On the other hand, the Directory should certainly include a brief general description of the library's holdings where that information is made available to the editor (preferably by the library itself).



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Collecting of questionnaires for the next part of the Directory continues with some acceleration, so

that the following tally may be reported (including the names of persons through whose generous

help the results were archieved):

Australia — 1 (Gallusser) Holland — 9 (Annegarn) Austria — 20 Hungary — 36 (Kecskeméti)

Belgium —13 (Huys) Israel — 4 (Adler) Brazil — 4 (Pequeno) Italy — 90 (De Grada)

Bulgaria — 2 New Zealand — 6 (Seaman) Czechoslovakia — 14 (Brozovska-Pacltova) Norway — 3

Denmark — 11 (Sdiiadt) Poland — 29 (Mendyszowa) Finland — 5 Spain — 4 (Llorens) France —66 Sweden—31 (Johansson)

Germany (East) — 90 (Köhler) Switzerland — 46 (Schantzlin)

Germany (West) — 165 (Weinhold) USSR — 14 (Kondakov)

Great Britain — 94 (King) Yugoslavia — 12(Cvetko)

Mr. Annegarn suggested the inclusion in the Directory of the name of a person (or center) in each

country who could serve as a channel of information for persons from outside seeking difficult or

obscure data not covered by the directory, and offered to serve in that capacity for Holland. Such a

service would, of course, he more difficult in larger countries, and volunteers would indeed be welcome.

The next discussion centered about the question of library responsibility in serving its users —in

person as well as by mail, and within in the country as well as outside. The problem has been discussed

earlier, but was recently recalled to attention by an article to appear in the next issue of Fontes. The

group agreed that standards of service vary greatly among research libraries, often being dependent

on the degree of modernization achieved by the institution and in the country at large, but sometimes

simply depending on the personnel involved and their commitment to their work. It was agreed too,

that users (especially graduate students) often make unreasonable and even impossible demands on

libraries and that the Commission might be of service by publishing a description of what we consider

to be legitimate requests of users, as well as responsible conduct on the part of libraries. The possibility

of publishing such a report will be explored during the coming year. Rita Benton, President

The Public Libraries Commission

The Public Libraries Commission held three sessions in New York, with representatives from

Denmark, France, German Federal Republic, Hungary, Italy, South Africa, United Kingdom and USA.

The first, on September 7, was devoted to specific descriptions and general considerations of music

collections in public libraries in the United States and was attended by 20 people. The second, on

September 8, was devoted to systematic classification (with 23 people in attendance) and the third,

that afternoon, was on the situations in conservatory (Hochschule) libraries (18 people).

Dr. Alfons Ott, President of the Commission, and the undersigned as Vice-President, conducted

the meetings jointly. We were both very pleased by the excellent presentations prepared by Mrs. Violet

Lowens, Mr. Kurtz Myers, Mr. Ivan Pethes, and Miss Geraldine Ostrove, and we are hopeful that

each of these will be published in Fontes.

Mrs. Lowen's paper covered briefly the Music Division of the District of Columbia Public Library,

and also some interesting facts and observations on music collections in American public libraries in

general. She particularly stressed the large number of record collections which are growing everywhere

in American libraries, very often without music librarians or anyone with special training to plan

and guide their growth. Kurtz Myers continued with some very provocative thoughts on the forces

at work which influence and shape our music collections in public libraries, with some specific references

to his own Music and Performing Arts Department in the Detroit Public Library. George Mayer and

this writer made informal remarks on the unique situation of the music collections of The New York

Public Library. Ivan Pethes from the Hungarian National Library in Budapest then concluded the

session with an informal talk on public library music collections in Hungary.



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The Sunday morning session, devoted to classification, was concerned maily with a long but very

impressive paper by Mr. Pethes. He examined the fundamental and philosophical bases of systematic classification in a thorough and logical manner. Pethes's contribution is of interest not only to 1AML

and music librarianship, but to the entire field of librarianship. The continuation of the Classification

Subcommission will be as part of the Cataloging Commission and Dr. Kurt Dorfmüller (as Chairman) will report on the future of this work. Other members of this Subcommission are Pethes (Secretary), Brook, Cunningham, Kenton, Lindberg, Ott, Plesske, and Wood.

Miss Ostrove is librarian of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore (Maryland) and her paper defined and described conservatory libraries in general and her own library in particular, describing

acquisition, cataloging, binding, circulation, recordings, and relationships with other libraries, with

the community as a whole, and with students of the conservatory. Sinor Guglielmo Barblan of

Milano told of the special situations which pertain in the great conservatory libraries in Italy. Dr. Ruth

Watanabe described the Sibley Music Library of the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, New York).

Discussion followed, the conclusions of which were that there is a great amount of overlapping of

types of libraries, and that the one word "conservatory" is used to cover many different kinds of

institutions. It was agreed that because these libraries are neither public nor research libraries a new

commission should be formed, known as the Subcommission of Libraries for Musical Pedagogy and

Performance (Sous-commission des Bibliothèques pour la Pédagogie et l'Exécution musicale; Subkom

mission der Bibliotheken für Musikerziehung und darstellende Kunst). A committee of seven members

will give further consideration to this matter, with Dr. Ott as president, Miss Ina Albert as Vice

President, including Kletzin, Musiol, Ostrove, and Watanabe. Thor E. Wood, Vice-President

International Committee of Music Phonorecord Libraries

Subcommittee on Radio Sound Archives

Washington, September 14, 1968

List of Participants

Chairman: Dietrich Lotichius (Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hamburg) Bibi Kjaer (Danish Broadcasting Corp., Copenhagen)

Wolfgang Adler (Sender Freies Berlin) Claes M. Cnattingius (Swedish Broadcasting Corp., Stockholm) Armando Colombo (Italian Broadcasting Corp., Rome)

Timothy Fckersley (British Broadcasting Corp., London)

Shigeru Joho (Japan Broadcasting Corp., Tokio) Erhard Karkoschka (Musikhochschule, Stuttgart) Kristian Lange (Norwegian Broadcasting Corp., Oslo) Donald L. Leavitt (Library of Congress, Washington) Folke Lindberg (Swedish Broadcasting Corp., Stockholm)

Georges Manal (French Broadcasting Corp., Paris) Erik Maschat (Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich)

Helge Schlenkert (Wilhelm Hansen Musik-Forlag, Copenhagen)

The Committee of Music Phonorecord Libraries is composed of two different groups of members

formed by both representatives of the research libraries and those of Radio Sound Archives. Each group,

though devoted to the same matter, is serving different functions and therefore frequently confronted

with quite separate problems and conditions of their work. As a result of this situation it was felt

that each group should be given a forum to study their special business and to discuss on their level

any controversial points that may exist in order to reach agreement on certain issues and be in a

position to recommend further action to the full assembly of the Committee. At the same time the

Committee should be furnished with a chance to transfer certain matters for further consideration to one of the two groups. Following a proposal by its president the Committee, during the Salzburg annual conference, voted to form two appropriate subcommittees.



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Owing to the fortunate fact that the majority of its members were present for the New York/

Washington Congress the chairman invited them to attend the inaugural meeting of the Subcom

mittee on Radio Sound Archives which was held in the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

The first item of the agenda was a lecture by Folke Lindberg of the Swedish Broadcasting Corpo ration on a most topical project of recataloguing 78 rpm records by aid of EDP (Electronic data

processing). This undertaking, just about to begin in the Swedish Radio Grammophone Library will, it is hoped, produce an elaborate catalogue of recording fixed on old pressings.

A computer will be producing lists of approximately 30000 records of light music which are to be

catalogued during the first experimental stage. Experience gained from this period of development

may later on serve as a model for dealing with L. P. records in the same way and, in the long run,

even serious music and spoken word tapes may be considered for applying EDP. A system of several

stages of manipulation including strict controls was set up to ensure precise "feeding" of the com

puter which, consequently, results in correct catalogue entries. If errors should occur these can be

put on to a special list and incorporated automatically when the next machine run for printing a

new edition of the complete catalogue is due to be operated. Lists may be cut to size and bound if

desired for easier handling. There are four branches : accessions catalogue (main or basic catalogue) /

title catalogue / name catalogue (authors/composers/artists) I record label catalogue (maufacturers'

numbers)

Mr. Lindberg pointed out that to his knowledge the Swedish Radio are the first who attempt to

use the aid of a computer for the cataloguing of grammophone records. He was quite aware that

the first experimental stage they are operating now would reveal many difficulties which had to be

overcome. He therefore invited the members of the subcommittee and any other person concerned

with this field of work to make comments. Any criticism and suggestions would be welcome and

should be addressed to the Swedish Broadcasting Corp. in Stockholm / c/o Mr. Lindberg. In view of the increasing overflow of radio archives with recorded material — mainly in the form

of commercial records — any system which helps to get this under control without demanding more

staff must be regarded as highly welcome.

Therefore the Swedish experiment deserves special interest.

The meeting went on with a report given by Timothy Eckersley of the British Broadcasting Corp. on the results of a Questionnaire on Radio Sound Archives sent out by the European Broadcasting Union to all member stations. Replies were received from 20 active members of the EBU and 7

associate members, among them Australia, Japan and Canada.

The Questionnaire was prepared as a first step to promote international co-operation between

Radio Sound Archives and to intensify personal contacts between archivists of the various broad

casting stations. Talks along these lines had already begun among radio members of the Phono record Committee during IAML's annual conference at Dijon in 1965.

The first objective of the Questionnaire was to seek general information on the stations' Sound

Archives. The aim was to compile a comprehensive register giving details on the person in charge of Archive services; how the Department is operated such as content, conditions of use, methods

of selection and preservation, acquisition of recordings from sources outside radio, method of cata

loguing; and finally particulars about the availability of Archive recordings for radio exchange

purposes. A major handicap for the freer flow of recordings between members of EBU for program

purposes is the absence of printed lists or catalogues which could be circulated — apart from the

BBC's hand-lists. It was also revealed that little co-ordination is so far exercised between Sound

Radio and Television Archives although a closer collaboration was desirable in view of the resources

of a well supplied Sound Archive (voices, natural history, folk music, historical actuality etc.), while

in reverse the Sound Archives could benefit greatly from the large amount of sound recordings made

for T. V. productions. As a result of the analysis of response to the Questionnaire it should be suggested to achieve future

development of Sound Archive collaboration by

a) carrying forward the compilation of the register of Sound Archives




b) meet from time to time as occasion (such as IAML annual conferences) warrants in each others'

Archives

aa) to study the organisation on the spot

bb) to exchange ideas for progress in Archive methods and techniques

cc) to devize methods of facilitating the direct exchange of information and recordings between

Radio Sound Archives

dd) to foster liaison with organisations outside the immediate orbit of broadcasting.

Taking advantage of the chance to study the American system of commercial broadcasting members

of the subcommittee followed an invitation to visit WGMS ("Washington Good Music Station"). Much appreciated "inside information" on equipment and programm operation policy was obtained.

Dietrich Lotichius, Chairman

Radio Commission

The Commission met on September 8 1968:

]. H. Davies: (B.B.C., London) President

Mme A. Doignies: (R.T.B., Brussels) Hon Sec.

W. Adler: (R.I.A.S., Berlin) A. Aronowsky: (S.A.B.C„ Johannesburg) A.Colombo: (R.A.I., Rome) S. Joho: (N.H.K., Tokyo) H. Kallman: (C.B.C., Toronto) K. Lange: (N.R.K., Oslo) F. Lindberg: (S.R.T., Stockholm) G. Manal: (O.R.T.F., Paris)

The President welcomed new members, including Dr. Aronowsky, and regretted again that no

German music librarian was present. Situation reports were received verbally from members.

E.B.U. Radio Publishing House

Dr. Lindberg reported on progress. Two lists of works had been put on offer to radios and had

received solid response. The question of costs was debated, and the results noted for future discussion

within the European Broadcasting Union.

E.B.U. Music Documentation Centre

Mme. Doignies reported as follows:

1. Indexing: Entries received were indexed up to "L", and the remainder was expected to be finished

within the next year. 2. Basic Catalogues: B.B.C.'s entries had been incorporated. For lack of a complete orchestral

catalogue R.A.I, was submitting sets of composer entries a d h o c (e.g. Donizetti) and would continue

thus. O.R.T.F. was nearing completion of reproducing their basic orchestral catalogue, together with

subseqent additions.

3. Composer-Catalogues: Anniversaries had been anticipated by the issue of the following

catalogues: Rossini; Berlioz; Fr. Couperin "Le Grand". A select Beethoven catalogue was being

planned.

Response: Enquiries for information and help were steadily growing. About twenty specific requests had been satisfied.

American Radio Networks

Invitations to A.B.C., N.B.C. and C.B.S. to attend the Commission's meeting were not taken up, but the President and Secretary visited C.B.S. and N.B.C. libraries personally during the conference and received information on the dispersal of their former collections. Full details are being maintained at the E.B.U. Music Documentation Centre, Brussels. John H. Da vies, President



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Katalogisierungs-Kommission

1. Full Code: Der Hauptteil ist im Druck. Das als Anhang beigefügte dreisprachige Verzeichnis der

Fachausdrucke mit Definitionen, dessen Redaktion wegen der Uneinheitlichkeit des internationalen

Sprachgebrauches erhebliche Schwierigkeiten bereitete, wurde abgeschlossen. 2. Regelwerk zur Katalogisierung von Tonträgern: Eine letzte Überarbeitung wurde kurz vor Beginn

des Kongresses abgeschlossen. Die Kommission besprach in ihrer ersten Sitzung am Sonntag, dem

8. Sept. Einzelheiten des Textes. Die Regeln selbst lassen formale Details offen. Als Ausgleich dafür wurde beschlossen, einen Anhang mit Beispielen zu geben, der die Katalogisierungspraxis einiger Nationalbibliotheken bzw. -phonotheken zeigt und damit verschiedene konkrete Möglichkeiten zur

Wahl stellt.

3. Katalogisierung der Musikhandsdtriften: Die 2. Sitzung der Kommission am 13. Sept. befaßte

sich mit grundsätzlichen Fragen des Zweckes und des Aufbaues eines Regelwerkes zur Handschriften

katalogisierung. Die Regeln sollen in erster Linie der Anlage von Bibliothekskatalogen dienen,

doch müssen die Handschriften-Beschreibungen genug Informationen enthalten, um außerhalb der

besitzenden Bibliothek, z. B. für Gesamtkataloge, verwendbar zu sein. Bis zur nächsten Jahrestagung soll ein detaillierter Entwurf vorgelegt werden, der sich auf die Ergebnisse der Diskussion stützt.

4. Systematik der Musikalien und Musiksdtriften: Seit dem Kongreß in Dijon 1965 wurde dieses

Thema im Rahmen der Kommission der öffentlichen Musikbibliotheken behandelt. Im Einvernehmen

mit dieser Kommission wurde beschlossen, eine Arbeitsgruppe für Systematik der Musikalien als Linter

kommission der Katalogisierungskommission einzurichten. Sie besteht aus Mitgliedern der Kommission

der öffentlichen Musikbibliotheken und der Katalogisierungs-Kommission. Den Vorsitz führt der

Vorsitzende der Katalogisierungs-Kommission, als Sekretär wurde Herr Ivan Pethes gewählt. Die

Unterkommission will zunächst zwei von Herrn Pethes vorbereitete Studien durcharbeiten und möglichst rasch zum Druck in Fontes vorlegen.

Die erste Studie befaßt sich mit grundsätzlichen Fragen der Klassifikation, die zweite wird einen

Vergleich zahlreicher bisher existierender Systeme bringen. Auf der Grundlage dieser Arbeiten soll

ein flexibles System ausgearbeitet werden, das auf möglichst viele verschiedenartige Bibliothekstypen anwendbar ist.

Als reguläre Mitglieder der Kommission waren anwesend: Mrs. Cunningham, Dr. Dorfmüller, Mme

Fédoroff und Dr. Lindberg, als Angehörige der Untergruppe Systematik außerdem die Herren Kenton,

Ott, Pethes und Wood. Den Sitzungen wohnten außerdem zahlreiche interessierte Kollegen bei, die

sich an den Diskussionen beteiligten. Als Hauptreferentin zur Handschriftenkatalogisierung wirkte

Frau Dr. M. L. Göllner, die ein detailliertes Protokoll und in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Vorsitzenden

einen ersten Entwurf zum Regelwerk ausarbeiten wird. Kurt Dorfmüller, Vorsitzender

Commission pour la Datation de la Musique

Au cours de sa réunion, tenue au Lincoln Center, la Commission a décidé de passer à la réalisation

d'un Guide pour la datation de la musique, dont le principe avait été discuté lors d'une précédente réunion. Des échanges de vues ont eu lieu sur le caractère, l'étendue et les collaborateurs éventuels

d'un tel Guide.

Au moment où paraîtront ces lignes, un certain nombre de spécialistes auront déjà été sollicités

pour leur participation. Pour tous renseignements et suggestions on est prié de s'adresser à Mr. Donald

Krümmel, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610, U.S.A.

François Lesure, Président

Music Information Centres

Summary report

The International Working Committee of Music Information Centres (more usually known as MIC)

met in New York on two occasions, both at the premises of the American Music Center.

At the first meeting on September 7th, present were representatives from Belgium (Miss Van

Steenbergen), Canada (Mr. MacMillan), Czechoslovakia (Mrs. Galuskovâ), Finland (Miss Aro), Holland




(Mr. Jurrès), Poland (Mr. Patkowski), Sweden (Mr. Lundahl), Switzerland (Mr. Steinbeck), and the

United States (Mr. Laderman, representing Mr. Browning). Present as observers were Mr. Schlenkert

(from Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen), Mr. Manal (Paris), Mr. Joho (NHK Music Library, Tokyo) and

Mr. Aronowsky (South African Broadcasting Corporation, Johannesburg). National reports from member countries were submitted by their representatives. Highlights of

these were as follows:

Belgium: Activity heavily curtailed in recent months owing to the necessity of finding new

premises, which will probably be provided in the Albertina, Royal Library in Brussels.

Canada: Owing to the Centennial celebrations throughout 1967, that year posed an exceedingly

heavy work-load. A prime project was the commissioning and performance of 44 new works. More

recent projects have involved composers in school teaching (the John Adaskin Project) and the micro

filming of the entire unpublished portion of the Centre's library, for safety and for more convenient distribution.

Czechoslovakia: Heavy work-load as usual. The Czech centre had organized many presentations of contemporary music of Czechoslovakia and from abroad, using tapes and discs with commentary, and had organized at least two exchanges of chamber groups, with Austria and with West Germany.

Finland: 1968 marks a considerable expansion in budget and activity over other years. Four LP

recordings of Finnish music are to be released, all by Finnish orchestras which had toured England and the U.S.A. A considerable effort has been made to acquaint foreign musicians with the works of Finnish composers. The Library is being expanded as quickly as possible.

Holland: Four records-cum-scores appeared in the Donemus Audio-Visual Series among which one containing larg excerpts of Willem Pijper's opera Halewijn. Among the articles included in the four numbers of the periodical Sonorum Speculum mention should be made of an essay on the oc casion of Henk Badings' sixtieth birthday. The joint MIC/Rostrum brochure was printed and largely distributed by the Dutch centre. The twentieth anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights will be celebrated with an official concert featuring a composition by Joep Straesser especially written for the occasion and commissioned by the Dutch centre.

Poland: The new Polish Documentation and Information Centre was started towards the end of 1967, to collect data on Polish and foreign contemporary music. To date the work has necessarily had to concentrate on Polish music, but information from outside Poland is welcome.

Sweden: Recent publications include a large catalogue of some 6000 popular Swedish tunes (1915—1965), some scores of orchestral works and a Swedish Chronicle (covering January 1966— June 1968). New recordings have also been released.

Switzerland: Publication grants, orchestra grants and others were allotted to a total of some 35,000 Swiss Francs. The Centre also published several lists and catalogues and is engaged in prepa ration of the second series of the Anthology of Swiss Music on records.

U.S.A.: Mr. Browning will be resigning his position as Executive Director, effective at the end of 1968. No successor has yet been announced. The AMC has during the past few years considerably expanded its directorship (now numbering about 26) and its activities into broader fields. Not only does it maintain an extensive library, but also administers various projects (competitions etc.), in cluding a project for extensive assistance to composers in the matter of copying and music reproduction.

The second meeting of the MIC group took place on September 10, also at the AMC, at which were present the representatives of Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Holland, Poland, Switzerland and the U.S.A.

Two exchange projects (MIC exchange of music, and the Rostrum/MIC project) were discussed and it was felt that both leave much to be desired, although no definite remedial decisions were reached. The matter of exchange of travelling performing groups, specializing in new music, was again discussed, with agreement that possibilities be vigorously investigated. It was also strongly urged that those international exchanges of playing groups at present organized under the auspices of the IMC or its member organizations (e.g. Jeunesses Musicales, etc.) be urged by the IMC to include more con temporary music; in any such program development the members of the MIC group would offer their fullest co-operation. It was furthermore suggested that the IMC might be the logical agency to help



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start an extensive and systematic international exchange of live performers, which might lay particular

emphasis on contemporary music.

It seems likely that the Music Centres in Australia and Israel will soon become members of the

MIC group. For the detailed information of MIC members and for the musical profession and public in general,

an extensive brochure is to be prepared, giving in some detail the aims, modus operandi, facilities etc.,

of each member of MIC, which will better enable them to explain themselves and hence to be of

greater service to correspondents at home and abroad.

The 1969 meeting of MIC will be held in Amsterdam, in the framework of the annual meeting of

IAML's international working commissions. Keith C. MacMillan, Secretary

Fédération Internationale des Phonothèques (F.I.P.) (International Federation of Sound Archives)

On the recommendation of a Reorganisation Committee set up in June 1967 by the former

Executive Committee of FIP, a FIP Provisional Council has been formed which is for the present the

sole organ authorised to act on behalf of FIP.

The members of the Provisional Council are: Dr. Israel Adler (President) (Jewish National and

University Library, Jerusalem), Signora Barone (Discoteca di Stato, Roma), Mr. Claes M. Cnattingius

(Fonoteket, Kungl. Biblioteket, Stockholm), M. Roger Décollogne (Phonothèque nationale, Paris),

Dr. Kurt Dorfmüller (Bayerisdie Staatsbibliothek, München), Mr. Stanley Ellis (Treasurer) (Dialect Survey

of English, University of Leeds), Mr. Donald Leavitt (Recorded Sound Section, Library of Congress,

Washington), Dr. Folke Lindberg (Sveriges Radio, Stockholm), Prof. Giorgio Nataletti (Centro

Nazionale Studi Popolari, Accademia Naz. S. Cecilia, Roma), Dr. Claudie Marcel-Dubois (Département

d'ethnomusicologie, Musée national des arts et traditions populaires, Paris), Mr. Philip Miller (As

sociation for Recorded Sound Collections, New York), Dr. Herbert Rosenberg (Danish State Record

Archives, Copenhagen), Mr. Patrick Saul (Secretary) (British Institute of Recorded Sound, London),

Dr. R. L. Schuursma (Utrecht University Historical Institute), Dr. Harold Spivacke (Music Division,

Library of Congress, Washington) and M. André Veinstein (Fédération internationale des Associations

de bibliothécaires, Paris). A preliminary meeting of European members of the Provisional Council was held in Paris on

4 September 1968 and a meeting of the full Provisional Council was held in New York on 8 Septem ber 1968.

At the meetings in Paris and New York it was agreed that FIP and the AIBM had many interests

in common and that with goodwill and commonsense on both sides there would be no difficulty in

ensuring that both organisations should co-operate in spheres of common interest.*

Two committees have been formed by the Provisional Council: a Constitution Committee under

the Presidency of Mr. Donald Leavitt and a Membership Committee presided over by Mlle Marcel

Dubois.

These two Committees have been asked to furnish reports within their respective terms of refer

ence in time for submission to the Provisional Council at meetings to be held in Amsterdam during

the AIBM congress in August 1969.

All communications to the Fédération internationale des phonothèques (FIP) should be addressed

to Mr. Patrick Saul, British Institute of Recorded Sound, 29 Exhibition Road, London SW 7, England.

Tel.: 01—5 89 66 03. Patrick Saul, Secretary

* Pour mettre en exécution immédiate ce projet de collaboration étroite entre l'AlBM et la F1P (ce

qui est parfaitement raisonnable, la FIP ayant été créée sous les auspices de l'AIBM), il a été décidé

d'un commun accord entre le Bureau de l'AIBM et le Conseil provisoire de la FIP — et cette décision

a été à son tour approuvée par le Conseil de l'AIBM à New York — que les Secrétaires généraux de

l'un et de l'autre de ces deux organismes feront provisoirement et d'office partie des deux Bureaux

(Note de la rédaction).



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