Saskia Willaert

Saskia Willaert (Ph.D. Musicology King's College, University of London) is in charge of non-western collections at the MIM. Her publications include research on the history of the MIM. Being in charge of the MIM’s digitisation projects, she brought the collection of the MIM to the MIMO platform and digitised partner museums in Africa. As head of department a.i., she represents MIM in the executive board and scienitific board of the Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH). She is member of the department board and of the scienitific board of the Koninklijk Consevatorium Brussel (Erasmus...

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Bibliography

  • 2021 - With Ignace De Keyser. “Celebrating the Art of Musical Instrument Making : the Musée d'organographie musicale of the Brussels Mahillon Company.” In Through the Eyes and Ears of Collectors: Musical Instrument Collectors (1860-1940), ed. Christina Linsenmeyer (forthcoming).
  • 2021 – With Maarten Couttenier, Ignace De Keyser, and Rémy Jadinon. “Collecting African Musical Instruments during the Colonization Era: The Case of the Congo.” In Through the Eyes and Ears of Collectors: Musical Instrument Collectors (1860-1940), ed. Christina Linsenmeyer (forthcoming).
  • 2018 – “’Finding’ the Haitian Banza.” In Banjo Roots and Branches. Ed. Robert Winans, Music in American Life. Urbana: University of Illionois Press, 134-8.
  • 2018 – “Instrument in detail. Mangbetu hoorn. Uele, ca. 1915-1930.” Klankbord. Vlamo 87. p. 24-8.
  • 2017 – “Musical Instruments Museums online (MIMO).” Kunsttijdschrift Vlaanderen 366. p. 28-9.
  • 2017 – “Digitizing collections of musical instruments in Africa. The PRIMA Project.” In Danielle Abbazia, Judith Opoku-Boateng, Agnieszka Slomska, Aparna Tandon (ed.) Year SOIMA/Unlocking Sound and Image Heritage, Selected Readings from the 2015 SOIMA Conference Brussels. p. 29-37.
  • https://prestocentre.org/resources/unlocking-sound-and-image-heritage-selected-readings-2015-soima-conference
  • 2016 – “Muziekinstrumenten digitaliseren in Afrika: het PRIMA project.” Science Connection, 52. p. 20-4.
  • 2014 – “Crosa, Giovanni Francesco.” In The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/51571.
  • 2014 – De Amicis, Anna Lucia.” In The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/07330.
  • 2014 – “Paganini, Maria Angiola.” In The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/O006686.
  • 2014 – “Bottarelli, Giovanni Gualberto.” In The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/47878.
  • 2013 – “De collectie van het mim.” Brusselse Cahiers Bruxellois. Revue d’histoire urbaine. Tijdschrift voor stadsgeschiedenis. Archives de la Ville de Bruxelles. Archief van de Stad Brussel, vol. 45. p. 31-47.
  • 2012 - “The growth of an ‘exotic’ collection. African instruments in the Musical Instruments Museum, Brussels (1877-1913).” In Annual Meeting of the International Committee of Musical Instrument Museum and Collections. CIMCIM 2011 – Tervuren. Reports. Tervuren. p. 61-73.
  • http://www.africamuseum.be/museum/research/publications/rmca/online/cimcim2011-reports.pdf.
  • 2010 – “De Afrikaanse voorlopers van de banjo.” Klankbord 43. p. 26-7.
  • 2009 – “Le opera comiche del Goldoni nella Londra del 1760: il apporto tra un genere italiano e un pubblico inglese.” Atti del Convegno “Goldoni, la musica, la scena, l’Europa, Problemi di critica goldoniana. vol. XIV. Venice. p. 267-88.
  • 2009 – (with Joris De Valck.) “Conservering van muzieknstrumenten in het mim. Een praktijkvoorbeeld.” In Handboek Muzikaal Erfgoed.
  • 2005 – “Tuned Raindrops. African lamellofonen.” Klankbord 18. p. 42-6.
  • 2003 – “Précurseurs africains du banjo.” In Banjo! Exhibition catalogue. Ed. Mia Awouters. Brussels.
  • 2001 – “Crosa, Giovanni Francesco.” In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Ed. Stanley Sadie. London: MacMillan. vi. p. 721.
  • 2001 – (with Ignace Bossuyt et Katrien Derde.) ” Castro, Jean De.” In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Ed. Stanley Sadie. Londen: MacMillan. v. p. 270-2.
  • 2001 – (with Dennis Libby et James L. Jackman.) “Ciampi, Vicenzo.” In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Ed. Stanley Sadie. London: MacMillan. v. p. 830-2.
  • 2000 – “Italian Comic Opera at the London King’s Theatre in the 1760s: The Role of the Buffi.” Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Ed. David Wyn Jones. Ashgate, Aldershot: Routledge. p. 17-71.
  • 1999 – “Italian Comic Opera in London in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century. Its Singers, Repertory and Reception.” PhD. King’s College, University of London.
  • 1997 – “William Damon (1540-1591.)” in Manuscrits de Musique de la Collection de G. Huybens / Music Manuscripts from the Collection of G. Huybens (Leuven/Belgium). Yearbook of the Alamire Foundation 2. Leuven – Peer. p. 80-94.
  • 1997 – (with Ignace Bossuyt.) “Jean De Castro’s Il Primo Libro di Madrigali, Canzoni e Motetti. An Antwerp Debut.” Yearbook of the Alamire Foundation 2. Leuven – Peer. p. 333-52.
  • 1994 – (with Katrien Derde). “Het mecenaat van de Genuese natie in Antwerpen in de tweede helft van de 16de eeuw.” In Orlandus Lassus Antwerpen. Exhibition cat. Antwerp. p. 47-56.
  • 1993-98 – (with Ignace Bossuyt and Katrien Derde). Jean De Castro. Opera Omnia. 5 vols. Louvain: University Press.
  • 1993 – (with Richard King). “The First Italian Comic Operas in London, Brussels and Amsterdam.” Journal of the Royal Musicological Association. p. 246-75.
  • 1992 – (with Richard King and Franco Piperno). “Pertici, Pietro.” In The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Ed. Stanley Sadie. London. iii. p.  974.
  • 1992 – (with Richard King and Francesco Piperno). “Laschi, Filippo.” In The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Ed. Stanley Sadie. London. ii. p. 1103-4.
  • 1992 – (with Dennis Lebby and James Jackman). “Ciampi, Vincenzo.” In The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Ed. Stanley Sadie. London. i. p. 850-9.