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About GemeinKat

About MMF's catalog of archival holdings, named GEMEINKAT

Online Searchable Catalog of Archival Holdings

Barbara Strauss and David Blum to retire.

Barbara Strauss and David Blum will be retiring the end of March and early April, 2023.
Their work on the GemeinKat Project has been exemplary and stellar, and they leave a refined, informative, and accessible catalog that shares information about thousands of Moravian music titles.

Letter from RISM regarding the work of MMF.

Letter by Jennifer Ward, RISM – Répertoire International des Sources Musicales

“I am writing from the RISM Editorial Center in Frankfurt, Germany. My office is responsible for coordinating the RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales, the International Inventory of Musical Sources) project worldwide. The Moravian Music Foundation is one of dozens of libraries and archives around the world that contribute to our project to catalog historical music manuscripts and printed editions. The results of this work are published in a database that is available free online (see https://rism.info/).

The Moravian Music Foundation has been involved with RISM since our earliest cataloging projects in the 1960s. However, it is thanks to Barbara Strauss as the Cataloging Project Manager, David Blum as Research Librarian, and their team of catalogers that the valuable and unparalleled holdings of historical music materials under the care of the Foundation have been brought to the attention of a new generation of music researchers. I have had the pleasure of working with our colleagues in Winston-Salem and Bethlehem since 2015 when Barbara got in touch with the U.S. RISM Office at Harvard University, and then with me, in order to ensure that the results of the MMF’s newest cataloging projects were included in RISM. Given the international nature of the RISM database, Barbara’s initiative ensured that the MMF’s collections can be placed in the context of historical music production and transmission and explored by researchers all over the world.

Barbara and the MMF cataloging team have contributed over 5,400 new records to RISM, making the United States among the most active RISM participants. In addition, they have enhanced over 800 records for printed music by adding music incipits and detailed content descriptions. These records are the results of both data transfers and working directly with the RISM cataloging program, Muscat.

But the accomplishments of Barbara’s team cannot be reduced to mere numbers. With their cataloging expertise and initiative, the MMF team has spearheaded the development of new RISM cataloging practices, contributed to the technical development of Muscat, and increased RISM’s profile in the professional community. The MMF catalogers accompanied Muscat as it developed from a manuscripts-only cataloging program to one that could expertly manage the complexity of printed editions. Real-life examples from MMF collections helped ensure that the nuances of printed editions could be accurately captured for both catalogers and users. A new field (Related sources, MARC21 787) was implemented in Muscat at the encouragement of Barbara in order to expose relationships between print culture and the tradition of manuscript transmission (such as a manuscript copied from a printed hymnbook)—a rich symbiosis prevalent throughout the MMF holdings that can now be explored and understood in RISM through structured data. Religious festivals specific to the Moravian church were first introduced to RISM thanks to MMF records. David Blum authored an article in an international journal to instruct librarians how to reuse RISM records (David Blum, “The Moravian Music Foundation Experience Using Bibliographic Records Downloaded from RISM,” Fontes Artis Musicae 64, no. 4 (October-December 2017): 355-366). And the 2020 Beethoven Year boosted RISM’s profile for 19th-century music when the MMF team cataloged their rare Beethoven printed editions for RISM—copies that were not included in the recent Ludwig van Beethoven. Thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis (Henle, 2014), but they are now in RISM.

Barbara Strauss has informed me that her cataloging project is coming to a close at the end of this month and the Moravian Music Foundation will continue their participation in RISM in only a starkly reduced form. I hope that this letter makes it clear what a valuable partner the Moravian Music Foundation has been to RISM during the past 8 years. A project such as RISM can only succeed with international cooperation. This principle has been true ever since RISM was founded in the 1950s under the auspices of UNESCO, the International Association of Music Libraries, and the International Musicological Association, but it is arguably truer now than it has ever been before in the age of linked open data, digital humanities, and constantly changing technological landscapes. Indeed, despite the prevalence and availability of information about music on the internet, it is easy to forget that it takes real people to ensure that it is put online in the first place. RISM needs people “on the ground” in libraries and archives to accurately describe their historical holdings, which is by far the most effective way to contribute to RISM, rather than sending my office spreadsheets for us to decipher from afar.

The end of this phase of RISM contributions from the Moravian Music Foundation will have a noticeable impact on both the quantity and quality of future RISM data. I am grateful for the work of Barbara Strauss, David Blum, and their team. I am glad that cooperation will continue between the Moravian Music Foundation and RISM, but at the same time I hope that a way can be found for the team to continue in full numbers in the future.

Sincerely, Jennifer Ward

Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM)


GemeinKat is on Worldcat.org


This online searchable database contains the catalog of most of MMF’s archival, reference, and in-print holdings and offerings.

The entire catalog resides online as a subset of WorldCat.org but may also appear in a general Google and other search engine results.

Further Definition of “GemeinKat”


catalog

The Moravian Music Foundation provides free online access to the GemeinKat catalog of collections, which allows scholars and musicians to locate items within the extensive holdings of the Moravian Music Foundation and other libraries.

Search for an item in GemeinKat:
WorldCat.org >>

About the GemeinKat Cataloging Project:



Since the catalog includes the collections of the Moravian communities from the 18th through the 21st centuries, the name GemeinKat is reflective of that purpose (Gemein- from the German word for community or fellowship, and Kat for catalog).


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GemeinKat: the Voyage Home
a video about the cataloging project and the collections


GemeinKat is the project to upload a new and enhanced digital records to the OCLC and RISM databases. GemeinKat is available to the public, on the internet, at moravianmusic.on.worldcat.org and is a WorldCat Discovery catalog, developed by OCLC, a nonprofit organization that provides services to thousands of libraries worldwide. Through WorldCat, users have the potential to access more than 1.8 billion items in libraries around the world.


Please visit our Researching at MMF page for more information about doing scholarly research within these unique collections at the Moravian Music Foundation.

Video about Researching Moravian Music
Online Search of GEMEINKAT on WorldCat.org


Update on GemeinKat (10/28/2021)

Those of you who’ve been following the Moravian Music Foundation for some time will be aware of the ongoing GemeinKat project – converting the more-than-50,000 cards in our card catalog to electronic, online records accessible world-wide! We actually started planning this project and doing some work “in the background” almost 15 years ago, but it was only 7 years ago that we were able to move “full-speed-ahead” with the project.

It was fall of 2014 when Barbara Strauss and Dave Blum joined our staff to tackle this project, and they are in the throes of completing some large collections, updating and enhancing the information through research as they go. Dave and Barbara have been able to identify a great many pieces that were previously listed as “anonymous” or “unidentified”; they’ve moved a few things around to get all the parts to a piece together; and all in all the project has greatly enhanced the body of knowledge about Moravian music! – (3/1/2021)

Below, are the full reports in PDF for 10/28/2021:


Current Project Status

Project Timeline

Remaining Steps to Completion

GemeinKat is Integral to MMF’s Mission & Vision

MMF’s Catalog is Important to Music History


MMF’s GemeinKat Project
Cataloging the MMF Collections

A lecture by Barbara Strauss:
GemeinKat Catalog Project

GemeinKat Catalog Project

BLOG – GemeinKat: Keeping Track of the Details, by Barbara Strauss, Project Manager

https://catalogmoravianmusic.wordpress.com/

Keeping Track of Details
A BLOG about cataloging the collection
by Barbara Strauss,
Cataloging Project Manager


WorldCat Online Search

https://moravianmusic.on.worldcat.org/discovery


EXAMPLE – Opening Search Page of Gemeinkat

Note, in the left-hand bar, under “Library”, you may choose to view only MMF holdings
Finding Aids for Collections in Gemeinkat

Searching Tool Kit

Searching, Researching, Finding Moravian Music

About GEMEINKAT

About RISM

About FINDING AIDS

About ARCHIVEGRID

Type a keyword, composer, title, etc.
to begin your search…

Search for an item in libraries around the world:
WorldCat.org >>

Collection Catalogs in Print

  • Salem Congregation Collection – Available for sale on our Books page
  • Lititz Congregation Collection – Available for sale on our Books page
  • Johannes Herbst Collection – Available for sale on our Books page

Peter Memorial Moravian Reference Library

The Moravian Music Foundation and Moravian Archives Research Library (the books in the reference stacks) have been physically combined, integrated, and classified according to Library of Congress. These and other physical items (monographs, journals, and scores) have been cataloged in the OCLC WorldCat bibliographic database (a resource of nearly 1.8 billion records from over 10,000 libraries).

Please visit our Researching at MMF page for more information about doing scholarly research within these unique collections at the Moravian Music Foundation.

Card Catalogers
Cataloging the Collection – 1960’s and 1970″s

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THE MMF OFFICE IS NO LONGER IN THE ARCHIVES BUILDING ON LOCUST ST.!
OUR OFFICE IS ON CENTER ST., THEREFORE, PLEASE SCHEDULE VISITS SO WE CAN COORDINATE.
THANK YOU.

It is required that you make an appointment with MMF staff for consulting or to do research, so that we may access and prepare materials for you.

www.moravianmusic.org

For shopping, you may visit MMF in Bethlehem any day of the week. The Archives staff will accept payment and complete your purchase.
When convenient, you may consider ordering items on the MMF website. We can save you shipping charge if you want to pick-up the items. Please email  sales@moravianmusic.org

For anthem and lending library requests, research inquiries about any of out collections, and other inquiries,
you are welcome to send an email to jan@moravianmusic.org, info@moravianmusic.org or
directly to any of the staff, using this pattern: [first name]@moravianmusic.org

We Are Open for Business!

…however, we prefer you make an appointment to visit the WINSTON-SALEM office for research projects or when trying to locate an item.  336-725-0651  For anthem and lending library requests, research inquiries, and other inquiries,
you are welcome to send an email to info@moravianmusic.org or sales@moravianmusic.org
or directly to any of the staff, using this pattern: [first name]@moravianmusic.org

You may purchase books, CDs, anthems at this location AND you may always order items 24/7 on the MMF website. You may pick-up or we will ship.

We have recently upscaled our gift shop to include local Moravian vendors, like ArtC Designs and Handmade Stars.

 

Trinkschokolade

“Kakao” in German means cocoa, either bean, powder or hot cocoa. It can be drunken cold or hot. When it is made from powder mixes it is often called “Trinkschokolade”

Glühwein

“Glühwein” is a German mulled wine (ours is non-alcoholic), a cheery warming agent in many cultures during the dark and chilly winter months. The German word itself directly translates to mean ‘glow wine’ in English. This name was derived from the red hot irons used to heat the wine in the early days. Recipes may include red wine or juice and other juices combined with the popular spices of the season, including citrus, cinnamon, star anise, cloves, and vanilla, all sweetened with sugar.

Internships at MMF

The Moravian Music Foundation welcomes students for internships.
Both college (or higher) and high school levels may be accommodated.
Some projects require no musical experience; others require ability to read music and understand orchestral scores/parts.

Food & Drink Vendors at ChristmasFest 2022

Friday:
WutYaSay    Southern Cookin’     www.facebook.com/wutyasay
Snickety Snacks   food/desserts  www.facebook.com/snicketysnackslocal
The Southern Noodle      www.facebook.com/TheSouthernNoodle/

Saturday:
Baked Just So    bakery    www.facebook.com/BakedJustSO/
Donut NV            donut truck   www.facebook.com/DonutNvAdvanceNC
Struggle Bus       coffee truck  www.facebook.com/thestrugglebus21

Both Days:
Patriot Pretzel Co.   pretzels  www.facebook.com/patriotpretzelcompany

 

        

Salem Saturdays at Christmas

Throughout the holidays and during ChristmasFest, Old Salem will welcome visitors to enjoy the shops and displays around Salem. Make it even more special by touring the historic buildings, homes and shops. Tickets at the Visitor Center: Holiday All-In-One Ticket

Old Salem Inc. museum, shops and historic buildings will be open 10:00a to 4:00p on the Saturday of ChristmasFest. (admission fee)

More about events >>

Salem Saturdays at Christmas

Visiting Old Salem Museum and Gardens - This Is My South

Musicians Performing at ChristmasFest 2022 Schedule
Friday, December 16
5:00–5:45 Stratford Brass
6:00–6:30 The Moravian Band
6:30–7:00 Trinity Moravian Church and Logos
7:00–8:00 New Philadelphia Worship Team
8:00–8:30 Salem Band Tuba Quartet
8:30–9:00 Advent Brass Ensemble
Saturday, December 17
10:00–10:30 South Stokes High School Band
10:30–11:00 Whitaker Elementary School Chorus
11:00–11:30 Salem Congregation Band Classes
11:30–12:00 West Stokes High School Choir
12:00–12:45 Salem Trombone Choir

and

Spencer Bullins on guitar will be playing inside the reading room for most of the festival.

Artists & Craftspersons at ChristmasFest 2022

Moravian Music Foundation    Christmas CDs, both choral and instrumental, and featuring the Moravian Lower Brass

Veronica Vale    Paintings

Golden Magnolia              Soaps and candles

________    woodworking, handmade items

LaDonna Crist    Art C     Moravian gift items

Hot Sauces

Handmade Stars               Susan Moore

Katherine Loafman          Framed Moravian artwork

Lauren Hatfield Christmas gift items (Moravian)

Moravian Archives      resources

Commission for Congregational Development        books and worship resources

Unity Women’s Desk /Lynn Waggoner      worldwide Crafts

RISM

RISM: Répertoire International des Sources Musicales

RISM, or International Inventory of Musical Sources, is an international, non-profit organization that aims to comprehensively document extant musical sources worldwide: manuscripts, printed music editions, writings on music theory, and libretti that are found in libraries, archives, churches, schools, and private collections.

Search RISM ONLINE (more searching options and granularity for scholars)    or   Search RISM CATALOG (more general searching)

The RISM Catalog of Musical Sources contains over 1.2 million records and can be searched at no cost. Early western music from 1600 through to the early 19th century is included.

RISM was founded in Paris in 1952 and is the largest and only global organization that documents written musical sources. RISM records what exists and where it can be found. RISM is where scholars go when they are looking for music manuscripts or early prints around the world. RISM entries include the musical incipits – the first phrase or so of music – to enable identification of a specific piece of music (which setting of “Sing to the Lord a New Song” is this?).

Other resources at MMF:

  • Reference library: the Peter Memorial Library in Winston-Salem
  • Irving Lowens Collection of early American tunebooks and songbooks, in Winston-Salem
  • An extensive international collection of hymnals (mostly Moravian) in many languages, dating to the 16th century, in Winston-Salem

Video about Moravian Music Research
 
Books about Moravian Music
 
Blog Posts about Moravian Music

Books for Sale: Musicology

Video about Moravian Music Research
 
Books about Moravian Music
 
Blog Posts about Moravian Music

Books for Sale: Musicology

Heritage Award

presented by the Moravian Historical Society, Aug. 28, 2022, to

GWYNETH MICHEL
Asst. Director of the Moravian Music Foundation

in sincere appreciation of her contributions in support of the MHS.

Christopher Ogburn

Growing up in the Moravian Church, I learned the value of the church and the importance of its long and remarkable history, both locally, but also internationally. My own family lineage can be traced back to the Bethabara settlement, so there is a strong personal connection that draws me to the work of the Moravian Music Foundation and the preservation of its remarkable archival collection. While an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I had the privilege of interning one summer at the Foundation under Nola Reed Knouse. This opportunity solidified my passion for musicology and is what ultimately inspired my pursuit of a doctorate in that area. In many ways, I owe my career to the Foundation and consider this opportunity to be both a literal and spiritual homecoming.

Looking to the future, I am excited by all the possibilities, including expanding the lecture series, building a more robust online presence, providing live music performances, creating workshops for local students, and working to tell the global story of the Moravian Church more completely and accurately.

My family has deep ties to the area that go back several generations. My wife, Erin, and I are excited to be moving back to Winston-Salem and to raise our daughter, June, in this community that played such a vital role in shaping who I am today. We are looking forward to exploring all the new restaurants, hiking around Pilot Mountain, and enjoying the vibrant cultural community that has grown over the years. After having lived in New York City for the bulk of our adult lives, we are delighted to be back in the land of BBQ, Cheerwine, and the Heels.  -Chris Ogburn

Bruce Earnest

What an honor it is for me to join the Moravian Music Foundation. I look forward to working with the board, staff, and community as we  plan for the next 66 years. The mission and vision of the Moravian Music Foundation is as important now and for the future as it was at inception 66 years ago. I am grateful to be leading an organization that is respected throughout the globe for its collection and significance, due to Dr. Knouse and the team. As my wife and family transition to the beautiful city of Winston-Salem, we ask for your prayers and look forward to meeting each of you very soon!    -Bruce Earnest

Psalm 99:5

ArchivGrid

ArchiveGrid                         LINK

This is a collection of over 7,000,000 archival descriptions, including documents, personal papers, family histories, and other archival materials held in about 1,500 archival institutions. ArchiveGrid helps researchers looking for primary source materials, but who may not know exactly where to go to find them. MMF’s finding aids can be discovered through ArchiveGrid. For an example, go to https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/help/; type in the search box (upper right) “Bethlehem congregation” and the first thing you will find is MMF’s finding aid for the Bethlehem Congregation Collection, and also related collections and suggested search terms (Lancaster, Dover, Lititz, etc.), linked to those finding aids on the MMF website.

Finding Aids

Individual Finding Aids       LINK

Guide: Arranged by Collection          LINK

The archival holdings of MMF are divided into collections. (some in Bethlehem, some in Winston-Salem)

The finding aid for each collection is a “30,000-foot view” of the collection in its context. Each finding aid contains information about the size of the collection, how it was created, history of the community or key individuals involved in the collection, and a description of the contents.

A guide to the MMF collections is available at MoravianMusic.org:

For the individual finding aids, see https://moravianmusic.org/category/finding-aids/
Then, click on any of the titles and read about that collection. When this work is completed, there will be a finding aid for every collection we hold.

GemeinKat

GemeinKat is the MMF digital catalog on WorldCat.org    LINK

“GemeinKat” is the name given to MMF’s project to upload new and enhanced digital records to the OCLC and RISM databases. We have used the name “GemeinKat” as our umbrella term for the entire project, involving Backstage Library Works, OCLC, WorldCat, and RISM and the work of cataloging; also, the creation of the digital records and the creation of finding aids.

GemeinKat is available to the public, on the internet, at moravianmusic.on.worldcat.org and is a WorldCat Discovery catalog, developed by OCLC, a nonprofit organization that provides services to thousands of libraries worldwide. Through WorldCat, users have the potential to access more than 1.8 billion items in libraries around the world.

GemeinKat itself is: the bibliographic records for each manuscript, book, or printed music item found in MMF holdings.
These archival holdings are grouped by collections and physically reside in either the Bethlehem or Winston-Salem archive (sometimes in both).
For a description, see the MMF website: https://moravianmusic.org/gemeinkat-catalog/.

WorldCat.org: to search the catalog, go to https://moravianmusic.on.worldcat.org/discovery. You can search by composer, title, collection, or any number of other keywords; just go try!

OCLC (Online Computer Library Center): the collective of organization(s) that built the online database called WorldCat. It is now owned by Backstage Library Works.

A recent inquiry to MMF - Subject: Copyright/Streaming

 

Dear MMF,

I have a question about copyright and streaming. We have CCLI license and streaming license at my church, but it does not cover many pieces for organ. Would the ASCAP license provide that protection for us to stream and include copyrighted organ music? I’ve read their website, and it seems like it would.  https://www.ascap.com/music-users/types/church-or-ministry

Thanks!

____________________________________________________

Dear Worship Leader,

We have been instructing folks to follow CCLI and OneLicense guidelines, which, as you discovered, unfortunately, rarely cover instrumental/keyboard music.

Yes, it appears as though ASCAP offers a “WorshipCast” streaming license, which is set up in much the same manner as CCLI and OneLicense licenses – i.e., the fee structure is based on worship attendance:

https://apps.christiancopyrightsolutions.com/purchase-license.aspx?svc=wc

A quick click brought up this fee structure:
1 – 199 (in attendance): $284.00
200 – 499 (in attendance): $424.00 (obviously it goes up from here)

Some further good news – the WorshipCast license offered above is controlled by Christian Copyright Solutions (a division of CCLI, and it appears as though purchase of this license would allow you to broadcast both ASCAP and BMI titles, opening up even more possibilities.

I don’t think, however, that this license includes SESAC titles; thus, if you wished to perform anything under the SESAC umbrella (Dan Gawthrop, for instance), you would need to approach that entity directly for a license:

https://www.sesac.com/#!/

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

Blessings to you in your music ministry!

Gwyneth Michel, Assistant Director, Moravian Music Foundation      – – (with edits by Erik S.)

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Archie K Davis Center

Construction began on the building in the fall of 1999, and the facility was completed and occupied in July 2001. In September 2001, the building was dedicated as the Archie K. Davis Center. More about the man, the building, and a quick, visual tour of our beautiful home.

The Archie K. Davis Center