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Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale

April 15, 2024

Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (International Repertory of Music Literature; Internationales Repertorium der Musikliteratur), commonly known by its acronym RILM, is a nonprofit organization that offers digital collections and advanced tools for locating research on all topics related to music.[1] Its mission is "to make this knowledge accessible to research and performance communities worldwide….to include the music scholarship of all countries, in all languages, and across all disciplinary and cultural boundaries, thereby fostering research in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences."[2] Central to RILM's work and mission is the international bibliography of scholarship relating to all facets of music research.

Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale
Company typeNonprofit organization
IndustryMusic Research Resources
Founded1966
FounderBarry S. Brook
HeadquartersThe City University of New York
New York City, United States
Key people
Tina Frühauf (Executive Director)
Zdravko Blažeković (Executive Editor)
ProductsRILM Abstracts of Music Literature, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text, RILM Music Encyclopedias, RILM Index to Printed Music, [MGG Online]
Number of employees
40+
Websitewww.rilm.org

History edit

RILM was founded in 1966 by the American musicologist Barry S. Brook (1918–1997) under the joint sponsorship of the International Musicological Society (IMS) and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML).[3] In 2007 the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) joined as a third sponsoring organization.[4]

During 1967 and 1968, RILM developed its first set of computer programs for the automated processing and sorting of bibliographic records and author/subject indexes. They ran first on the mainframe IBM computer IBM System/360 at the computing center of The City University of New York. The S/360 was delivered by IBM in 1964 and it was at that time the most advanced computing machine. The original IBM S/360 software was later migrated to IBM System/370 and used in the production of RILM Abstracts for twenty years, from 1969 to 1988.[5] RILM's development of procedures for computerized data processing was immediately adopted by Répertoire International de Littérature d’Art (RILA), founded upon RILM's model, which started publishing abstracts in 1975.

In 1979 RILM entered an agreement with Lockheed Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, a division of Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Inc., for the distribution of its data through the telephone lines. Later on, this agreement was transferred to DIALOG Information Retrieval Services. Although available online already before the advent of the Internet, until the end of the twentieth century the primary medium for distribution for its bibliographic records were printed volumes.[6]

From 1993 onward RILM was no longer available on DIALOG Information Retrieval Service, but in 1989 the National Information Service Corporation (NISC) in Baltimore released RILM Abstracts of Music Literature on CD-ROM. During the 1990s RILM Abstracts became available online through NISC Muse (1993–2010), OCLC First Search (1994–2010), Ovid/SilverPlatter (2002–2010), and Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/ProQuest (2002–2010) platforms. RILM databases are available through EBSCO Information Services; RILM's platform, Egret, offers RILM Music Encyclopedias and MGG Online.

RILM's first editorial office was located at the Queens College, City University of New York (1967–68). The Graduate Center, CUNY has provided an institutional context for RILM's International Center since 1968.

Organization edit

RILM has a staff of over 40 employees: editors, technology experts, and administrators. It is governed and guided by a board of directors and an advisory committee, the Commission Mixte International, which consists of appointed members of the International Musicological Society (IMS), the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML), and the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM). Barry Brook's second report, published in the March 1968 issue of Notes, details the deliberations of the Commission Mixte as it worked to establish the procedures and functioning of RILM.[7]

Online publications edit

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature covers significant international scholarship in both printed and digital media, and in any language.[8][9] Published since August 1967, it consists of citations of articles, single-author books and collections of essays,[10] bibliographies, catalogues, master's theses and doctoral dissertations,[11][12] Festschriften, films, videos, technical drawings of instruments, facsimile editions, iconographies, commentaries included with critical editions of music, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, reviews, web resources as well as over 3500 periodicals that dovetail with the coverage of Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale.[13] It differs from other music periodical indexes through its coverage of books, abstracts, indexing, and broad international yet selective coverage.[14] Each entry provides the title in the original language, an English translation of the title, full bibliographic data, and an abstract with a detailed index, all of which help to convey the "aboutness" of the record (amplified online by the relevance-based order of display in the individual record.[15] Many of the non-English entries also include an abstract in the language of the publication.

Following the UNESCO model, RILM Abstracts was conceived as a cooperative of national committees responsible for contributing bibliographic citations and abstracts for the publications issued in their respective countries to the International Office in New York. Today committees contribute about 15,000 records annually, which are edited, indexed, and added to the online database. Another 35,000 records per year are produced by editors at the International Office. Bibliographic information and abstracts—as well as journals that have not yet been covered by RILM—can also be submitted directly to the International Center in New York.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature was the first abstracted bibliography in the humanities and designated by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) as the pilot project for the development of a computerized, bibliographical system in the humanities to serve as a model for the more than 30 constituent scholarly societies of the ACLS.[16] At the time when RILM Abstracts was published only in print, its subject thesaurus and name equivalencies, which led users to the preferred terms, were translated into seventeen languages and alphabetically integrated with the subject index.[17] This practice allowed users to find the desired English-language term or the spelling of a personal name by initiating the search from the language most familiar to them. Gradually RILM Abstracts expanded its multilingual environment and the database now includes, besides standard English-language abstracts, also abstracts in the language of publication and in other languages whenever available. In the mid-2000s RILM Abstracts began to expand its coverage of Asian publications, with music scholarship published in Chinese periodicals.[18] Concurrently, all elements of bibliographic records for publications issued in non-roman writing systems were offered bilingual.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature appeared from 1967 to 1983 in triannual printed volumes with indexes corresponding to annual volumes as well as cumulative indexes corresponding to five-year periods; from 1984 to 1999 in annual volumes with corresponding indexes; and since 2000 it is available exclusively online through EBSCOhost.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text

In July 2016 RILM Abstracts of Music Literature expanded with the addition of music periodicals in full-text.[19] RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text (RAFT) offers access to 250 music periodicals from many countries.[20] Coverage also includes reviews as well as obituaries, editorials, correspondence, advertisements, and news, published from the early twentieth century to the present.[21] In addition to metadata, abstracts, and indexing, RAFT offers searching and browsing tools for each full-text issue, cover to cover. The database is updated monthly.[22] Details of each title's current coverage can be found in the title list at rilm.org/fulltext. New titles are added over time.

RILM Music Encyclopedias

In December 2015, RILM launched RILM Music Encyclopedias (RME) with 41 titles.[23][24] Librarian Laurie Sampsel asserts that "cross searching the full text of so many titles yields results impossible (or highly unlikely) to find using the print versions of these encyclopaedias."[25] Stephen Henry mentions RME's "ability to provide access to some excellent European resources that might not otherwise be available to libraries with less than comprehensive collections."[26]

RME’s titles stem from different periods and countries: The earliest, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Dictionnaire de musique, was published in 1775. There is also the first edition of "The Grove," in an edition published by Theodore Presser in 1895.[27] The largest amount of titles date from 2000 onward.[28] Among them are Ken Bloom's Broadway, Lol Henderson and Lee Stacey's Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century, Peter Matzke et al., Das Gothic- und Dark Wave-Lexikon, and Richard Kostelanetz's Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes.[29] The comprehensive Handwörterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie, conceived between 1972 bis 2006, is also included.[30] RME holds important titles for ethnomusicologists, among them The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music and Eileen Southern's Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians, which is the first single comprehensive volume of its kind.[31] The collection expands annually with additions of four titles in average.[32] One of the titles, Komponisten der Gegenwart (KDG), is being regularly updated with new articles or additions to existing articles.[33][34]

Index to Printed Music

On 1 July 2018, RILM assumed ownership of IPM. Previously, it was owned by the James Adrian Music Company, which was founded in 2000 by George R. Hill.

The Index to Printed Music (IPM) is the only digital finding aid for searching specific musical works contained in printed collections, sets, and series. It indexes individual pieces of music printed in the complete works of composers, in anthologies containing pieces from disparate historical periods, and in other scholarly editions.[35] It provides a granular level of detail about each piece, including performing forces, language, multiple clefs or figured bass, and more. IPM includes the complete contents of Collected Editions, Historical Series & Sets & Monuments of Music: A Bibliography, by George R. Hill and Norris L. Stephens (Berkeley: Fallen Leaf Press, 1997),[36] which, in turn, was based upon Anna H. Heyer's Historical Sets, Collected Editions, and Monuments of Music: A Guide to Their Contents (American Library Association, 1957–1980).

Since 2019 IPM offers new features, among them biographical facts identifying composers, editors, and lyricists; hyperlinks to open-access editions; music incipits for works that are otherwise difficult to distinguish from each other; easy toggling between collections and the individual works contained therein; and expanded search filters to enable refined searching by place and date of publication, document type, genre, and language of text.

Bibliolore

RILM hosts the blog Bibliolore whose posts have direct relationships to content found in RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and its enhancement, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text, as well as RILM Music Encyclopedias, MGG Online, and Index to Printed Music. New posts appear every week, many of which celebrate round birthdays of musical figures and anniversaries. Since its inception in 2009, Bibliolore has published over 1500 posts and has been viewed over 600,000 times.[37]

Print publications edit

Between 1967 and 1999, RILM published RILM Abstracts of Music Literature in print, first quarterly and later annually. The 1999 volume, the last print volume, is the largest, with 19,619 records.

Since 1972, RILM has also published print volumes in the RILM Retrospectives series. These topical bibliographies commenced with the first edition of Barry S. Brook's Thematic Catalogues in Music: An Annotated Bibliography (Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1972). Recent volumes published in the series include Speaking of Music: Music Conferences 1835–1966 (2004), an annotated bibliography of 5948 papers on musical topics presented at 447 conferences.[38] While building on the previous efforts, the volume stays true to Brook's original vision while expanding upon it as well: it covers more than 130 years of conference proceedings and has a worldwide scope, though Western Europe remains in focus.[39] The subsequent volume, Liber Amicorum: Festschriften for Music Scholars and Nonmusicians, 1840–1966, is an annotated bibliography catalogue of 574 Festschriften, totaling 118 pages and 715 entries. The next part of the volume (totaling 355 pages and 3881 entries) documents all of the articles pertaining to music found in the listed Festschriften, preceded by an introductory history of Festschriften.[40] All volumes are principally devoted to research materials published before RILM issued its first volume in 1967.

The RILM Perspectives series of conference proceedings explores topics related to the organization's global mission. The inaugural volume, Music’s Intellectual History: Founders, Followers & Fads of 2009, edited by Zdravko Blažeković and Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie, is based on papers presented at the conference on music historiography, held at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 16–19 March 2005.

RILM has issued two editions of its comprehensive style guide, How to Write About Music: The RILM Manual of Style.[41] The second edition introduces material not included in the 2005 publication as well as revisions based on suggestions from readers.[42] The manual differs significantly from the generalized style guides such as MLA or APA by explicating the matters of gender-neutral language, dead language, and punctuation (from the serial comma to the em dash) through the lens of music.[43] The manual is specifically suited for students.[44]

 

RILM's platform Egret edit

RILM has developed a stand-alone platform with the most advanced search and browse capabilities to host and distribute music reference works, beginning with the authoritative German-language music encyclopedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG). Egret facilitates automatic translation of content to over 100 languages via Google Translate integration, user accounts where annotations and notes can be created, saved, and shared, cross references linking related content throughout MGG Online, links to related content in RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and others, as well as an interface compatible with mobile and tablet devices.[45] The search function is hailed as a powerful but easy-to-use tool, with different options available for limiting search results.[46] Specific search results can be easily located in a preview section.[47] MGG Online is based on the second edition of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, but it includes continuous updates, revisions, and additions.[48] Egret allows the user to access earlier versions of revised articles.[49] In February 2020 RILM Music Encyclopedias was launched on Egret.

References edit

  1. ^ Seaton, Douglass. "On the Importance of RILM to the Discipline". CMS Forums. Retrieved 28 February 2007.
  2. ^ "RILM About Us". RILM Website. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  3. ^ Barry S. Brook, "RILM, Inaugural Report, January 1967," Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 23, no. 3 (March 1967): 462–467.
  4. ^ Since RILM’s foundation, the editors-in-chief have written summaries of yearly activities, which offer a concise overview of the history and development of the organization.
  5. ^ The program was developed in Fortran and BAL by Solomon D. Gongola, James E. Korenthal, and Jonathan L. Marz, under the supervision of Laurence H. Heimrath. Its documentation was later worked out by Philip J. Drummond and published as Reference Manual for the RILM Automated Bibliographic System, including a User Guide, Reference Information and Program Listings (New York: Répertoire International de Littérature International, 1976), 4 vols.
  6. ^ RILM Abstracts of Music Literature appeared from 1967 to 1983 in triannual printed volumes with indexes corresponding to annual volumes as well as cumulative indexes corresponding to five-year periods; from 1984 to 1999 in annual volumes with corresponding indexes; and since 2000 it is distributed exclusively online.
  7. ^ Barry S. Brook, "Report No. 2: September 1967," Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 24, no. 3 (1968): 457–466.
  8. ^ Raymond Ericson, "Who’s Writing about Music and Where," The New York Times, 5 November 1967.
  9. ^ Alan Green, "Keeping up with the Times: Evaluating Currency of Indexing, Language Coverage and Subject Area Coverage in the Three Music Periodical Index Databases," Music Reference Services Quarterly 8, no. 1 (January 2001): 66.
  10. ^ Jane Gottlieb, Music Library and Research Skills, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 47.
  11. ^ For a detailed survey of dissertations covered in RILM Abstracts, see Jane Gottlieb, Music Library and Research Skills, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 49–50.
  12. ^ Kristin Dougan, "Dissertations in the Electronic Age: Tapping into Emerging Musicology Research," Music Reference Services Quarterly 14, no. 3 (July 2011): 109–130.
  13. ^ On RILM Abstracts's journal coverage, see Leslie Anne Troutman, "Comprehensiveness of Indexing in Three Music Periodical Databases." Music Reference Services Quarterly 8, no. 1 (January 2001): 39–51; and Alan Green, "The RILM Project: Charting the Seas of Modern Musicological Literature," College Music Symposium 40 (January 2000): 51.
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  17. ^ The languages were Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, and Swedish. Published as RILM Abstracts of Music Literature: International Thesaurus, ed. by Marilyn Bliss (New York: Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, 1990). The integral thesaurus was also published in the Russian language: Jerzy Gołos, Russian Guide to the RILM International Thesaurus and Cumulative Index/Русский путеводитель по международному тезаурусу РИЛМ и по кумулятивному индексу (New York: Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, 1976). [verification needed]
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  19. ^ See http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Digest/EBSCO-Expands-Music-Research-Resources-112296.asp . For a detailed description of RILM Music Encyclopedias, see Jane Gottlieb, Music Library and Research Skills, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 68–70.
  20. ^ See https://librarytechnology.org/news/pr.pl?id=21749 .
  21. ^ See http://www.prweb.com/releases/EBSCO/RILM/prweb13545489.htm .
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  31. ^ Tina Frühauf, "Reports," Bulletin of the ICTM 130 (January 2016): 34–35.
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Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale International Repertory of Music Literature Internationales Repertorium der Musikliteratur commonly known by its acronym RILM is a nonprofit organization that offers digital collections and advanced tools for locating research on all topics related to music 1 Its mission is to make this knowledge accessible to research and performance communities worldwide to include the music scholarship of all countries in all languages and across all disciplinary and cultural boundaries thereby fostering research in the arts humanities sciences and social sciences 2 Central to RILM s work and mission is the international bibliography of scholarship relating to all facets of music research Repertoire International de Litterature MusicaleCompany typeNonprofit organizationIndustryMusic Research ResourcesFounded1966FounderBarry S BrookHeadquartersThe City University of New YorkNew York City United StatesKey peopleTina Fruhauf Executive Director Zdravko Blazekovic Executive Editor ProductsRILM Abstracts of Music Literature RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text RILM Music Encyclopedias RILM Index to Printed Music MGG Online Number of employees40 Websitewww wbr rilm wbr org Contents 1 History 2 Organization 3 Online publications 4 Print publications 5 RILM s platform Egret 6 References 7 Bibliography 8 External linksHistory editRILM was founded in 1966 by the American musicologist Barry S Brook 1918 1997 under the joint sponsorship of the International Musicological Society IMS and the International Association of Music Libraries Archives and Documentation Centres IAML 3 In 2007 the International Council for Traditional Music ICTM joined as a third sponsoring organization 4 During 1967 and 1968 RILM developed its first set of computer programs for the automated processing and sorting of bibliographic records and author subject indexes They ran first on the mainframe IBM computer IBM System 360 at the computing center of The City University of New York The S 360 was delivered by IBM in 1964 and it was at that time the most advanced computing machine The original IBM S 360 software was later migrated to IBM System 370 and used in the production of RILM Abstracts for twenty years from 1969 to 1988 5 RILM s development of procedures for computerized data processing was immediately adopted by Repertoire International de Litterature d Art RILA founded upon RILM s model which started publishing abstracts in 1975 In 1979 RILM entered an agreement with Lockheed Research Laboratory in Palo Alto a division of Lockheed Missiles and Space Company Inc for the distribution of its data through the telephone lines Later on this agreement was transferred to DIALOG Information Retrieval Services Although available online already before the advent of the Internet until the end of the twentieth century the primary medium for distribution for its bibliographic records were printed volumes 6 From 1993 onward RILM was no longer available on DIALOG Information Retrieval Service but in 1989 the National Information Service Corporation NISC in Baltimore released RILM Abstracts of Music Literature on CD ROM During the 1990s RILM Abstracts became available online through NISC Muse 1993 2010 OCLC First Search 1994 2010 Ovid SilverPlatter 2002 2010 and Cambridge Scientific Abstracts ProQuest 2002 2010 platforms RILM databases are available through EBSCO Information Services RILM s platform Egret offers RILM Music Encyclopedias and MGG Online RILM s first editorial office was located at the Queens College City University of New York 1967 68 The Graduate Center CUNY has provided an institutional context for RILM s International Center since 1968 Organization editRILM has a staff of over 40 employees editors technology experts and administrators It is governed and guided by a board of directors and an advisory committee the Commission Mixte International which consists of appointed members of the International Musicological Society IMS the International Association of Music Libraries Archives and Documentation Centres IAML and the International Council for Traditional Music ICTM Barry Brook s second report published in the March 1968 issue of Notes details the deliberations of the Commission Mixte as it worked to establish the procedures and functioning of RILM 7 Online publications editRILM Abstracts of Music LiteratureRILM Abstracts of Music Literature covers significant international scholarship in both printed and digital media and in any language 8 9 Published since August 1967 it consists of citations of articles single author books and collections of essays 10 bibliographies catalogues master s theses and doctoral dissertations 11 12 Festschriften films videos technical drawings of instruments facsimile editions iconographies commentaries included with critical editions of music ethnographic recordings conference proceedings reviews web resources as well as over 3500 periodicals that dovetail with the coverage of Repertoire International de la Presse Musicale 13 It differs from other music periodical indexes through its coverage of books abstracts indexing and broad international yet selective coverage 14 Each entry provides the title in the original language an English translation of the title full bibliographic data and an abstract with a detailed index all of which help to convey the aboutness of the record amplified online by the relevance based order of display in the individual record 15 Many of the non English entries also include an abstract in the language of the publication Following the UNESCO model RILM Abstracts was conceived as a cooperative of national committees responsible for contributing bibliographic citations and abstracts for the publications issued in their respective countries to the International Office in New York Today committees contribute about 15 000 records annually which are edited indexed and added to the online database Another 35 000 records per year are produced by editors at the International Office Bibliographic information and abstracts as well as journals that have not yet been covered by RILM can also be submitted directly to the International Center in New York RILM Abstracts of Music Literature was the first abstracted bibliography in the humanities and designated by the American Council of Learned Societies ACLS as the pilot project for the development of a computerized bibliographical system in the humanities to serve as a model for the more than 30 constituent scholarly societies of the ACLS 16 At the time when RILM Abstracts was published only in print its subject thesaurus and name equivalencies which led users to the preferred terms were translated into seventeen languages and alphabetically integrated with the subject index 17 This practice allowed users to find the desired English language term or the spelling of a personal name by initiating the search from the language most familiar to them Gradually RILM Abstracts expanded its multilingual environment and the database now includes besides standard English language abstracts also abstracts in the language of publication and in other languages whenever available In the mid 2000s RILM Abstracts began to expand its coverage of Asian publications with music scholarship published in Chinese periodicals 18 Concurrently all elements of bibliographic records for publications issued in non roman writing systems were offered bilingual RILM Abstracts of Music Literature appeared from 1967 to 1983 in triannual printed volumes with indexes corresponding to annual volumes as well as cumulative indexes corresponding to five year periods from 1984 to 1999 in annual volumes with corresponding indexes and since 2000 it is available exclusively online through EBSCOhost RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full TextIn July 2016 RILM Abstracts of Music Literature expanded with the addition of music periodicals in full text 19 RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text RAFT offers access to 250 music periodicals from many countries 20 Coverage also includes reviews as well as obituaries editorials correspondence advertisements and news published from the early twentieth century to the present 21 In addition to metadata abstracts and indexing RAFT offers searching and browsing tools for each full text issue cover to cover The database is updated monthly 22 Details of each title s current coverage can be found in the title list at rilm org fulltext New titles are added over time RILM Music EncyclopediasIn December 2015 RILM launched RILM Music Encyclopedias RME with 41 titles 23 24 Librarian Laurie Sampsel asserts that cross searching the full text of so many titles yields results impossible or highly unlikely to find using the print versions of these encyclopaedias 25 Stephen Henry mentions RME s ability to provide access to some excellent European resources that might not otherwise be available to libraries with less than comprehensive collections 26 RME s titles stem from different periods and countries The earliest Jean Jacques Rousseau s Dictionnaire de musique was published in 1775 There is also the first edition of The Grove in an edition published by Theodore Presser in 1895 27 The largest amount of titles date from 2000 onward 28 Among them are Ken Bloom s Broadway Lol Henderson and Lee Stacey s Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century Peter Matzke et al Das Gothic und Dark Wave Lexikon and Richard Kostelanetz s Dictionary of the Avant Gardes 29 The comprehensive Handworterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie conceived between 1972 bis 2006 is also included 30 RME holds important titles for ethnomusicologists among them The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music and Eileen Southern s Biographical Dictionary of Afro American and African Musicians which is the first single comprehensive volume of its kind 31 The collection expands annually with additions of four titles in average 32 One of the titles Komponisten der Gegenwart KDG is being regularly updated with new articles or additions to existing articles 33 34 Index to Printed MusicOn 1 July 2018 RILM assumed ownership of IPM Previously it was owned by the James Adrian Music Company which was founded in 2000 by George R Hill The Index to Printed Music IPM is the only digital finding aid for searching specific musical works contained in printed collections sets and series It indexes individual pieces of music printed in the complete works of composers in anthologies containing pieces from disparate historical periods and in other scholarly editions 35 It provides a granular level of detail about each piece including performing forces language multiple clefs or figured bass and more IPM includes the complete contents of Collected Editions Historical Series amp Sets amp Monuments of Music A Bibliography by George R Hill and Norris L Stephens Berkeley Fallen Leaf Press 1997 36 which in turn was based upon Anna H Heyer s Historical Sets Collected Editions and Monuments of Music A Guide to Their Contents American Library Association 1957 1980 Since 2019 IPM offers new features among them biographical facts identifying composers editors and lyricists hyperlinks to open access editions music incipits for works that are otherwise difficult to distinguish from each other easy toggling between collections and the individual works contained therein and expanded search filters to enable refined searching by place and date of publication document type genre and language of text BiblioloreRILM hosts the blog Bibliolore whose posts have direct relationships to content found in RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and its enhancement RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text as well as RILM Music Encyclopedias MGG Online and Index to Printed Music New posts appear every week many of which celebrate round birthdays of musical figures and anniversaries Since its inception in 2009 Bibliolore has published over 1500 posts and has been viewed over 600 000 times 37 Print publications editBetween 1967 and 1999 RILM published RILM Abstracts of Music Literature in print first quarterly and later annually The 1999 volume the last print volume is the largest with 19 619 records Since 1972 RILM has also published print volumes in the RILM Retrospectives series These topical bibliographies commenced with the first edition of Barry S Brook s Thematic Catalogues in Music An Annotated Bibliography Stuyvesant NY Pendragon Press 1972 Recent volumes published in the series include Speaking of Music Music Conferences 1835 1966 2004 an annotated bibliography of 5948 papers on musical topics presented at 447 conferences 38 While building on the previous efforts the volume stays true to Brook s original vision while expanding upon it as well it covers more than 130 years of conference proceedings and has a worldwide scope though Western Europe remains in focus 39 The subsequent volume Liber Amicorum Festschriften for Music Scholars and Nonmusicians 1840 1966 is an annotated bibliography catalogue of 574 Festschriften totaling 118 pages and 715 entries The next part of the volume totaling 355 pages and 3881 entries documents all of the articles pertaining to music found in the listed Festschriften preceded by an introductory history of Festschriften 40 All volumes are principally devoted to research materials published before RILM issued its first volume in 1967 The RILM Perspectives series of conference proceedings explores topics related to the organization s global mission The inaugural volume Music s Intellectual History Founders Followers amp Fads of 2009 edited by Zdravko Blazekovic and Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie is based on papers presented at the conference on music historiography held at The Graduate Center CUNY 16 19 March 2005 RILM has issued two editions of its comprehensive style guide How to Write About Music The RILM Manual of Style 41 The second edition introduces material not included in the 2005 publication as well as revisions based on suggestions from readers 42 The manual differs significantly from the generalized style guides such as MLA or APA by explicating the matters of gender neutral language dead language and punctuation from the serial comma to the em dash through the lens of music 43 The manual is specifically suited for students 44 nbsp RILM s platform Egret editRILM has developed a stand alone platform with the most advanced search and browse capabilities to host and distribute music reference works beginning with the authoritative German language music encyclopedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart MGG Egret facilitates automatic translation of content to over 100 languages via Google Translate integration user accounts where annotations and notes can be created saved and shared cross references linking related content throughout MGG Online links to related content in RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and others as well as an interface compatible with mobile and tablet devices 45 The search function is hailed as a powerful but easy to use tool with different options available for limiting search results 46 Specific search results can be easily located in a preview section 47 MGG Online is based on the second edition of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart but it includes continuous updates revisions and additions 48 Egret allows the user to access earlier versions of revised articles 49 In February 2020 RILM Music Encyclopedias was launched on Egret References edit Seaton Douglass On the Importance of RILM to the Discipline CMS Forums Retrieved 28 February 2007 RILM About Us RILM Website Retrieved 1 July 2019 Barry S Brook RILM Inaugural Report January 1967 Notes Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 23 no 3 March 1967 462 467 Since RILM s foundation the editors in chief have written summaries of yearly activities which offer a concise overview of the history and development of the organization The program was developed in Fortran and BAL by Solomon D Gongola James E Korenthal and Jonathan L Marz under the supervision of Laurence H Heimrath Its documentation was later worked out by Philip J Drummond and published as Reference Manual for the RILM Automated Bibliographic System including a User Guide Reference Information and Program Listings New York Repertoire International de Litterature International 1976 4 vols RILM Abstracts of Music Literature appeared from 1967 to 1983 in triannual printed volumes with indexes corresponding to annual volumes as well as cumulative indexes corresponding to five year periods from 1984 to 1999 in annual volumes with corresponding indexes and since 2000 it is distributed exclusively online Barry S Brook Report No 2 September 1967 Notes Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 24 no 3 1968 457 466 Raymond Ericson Who s Writing about Music and Where The New York Times 5 November 1967 Alan Green Keeping up with the Times Evaluating Currency of Indexing Language Coverage and Subject Area Coverage in the Three Music Periodical Index Databases Music Reference Services Quarterly 8 no 1 January 2001 66 Jane Gottlieb Music Library and Research Skills 2nd ed New York Oxford University Press 2017 47 For a detailed survey of dissertations covered in RILM Abstracts see Jane Gottlieb Music Library and Research Skills 2nd ed New York Oxford University Press 2017 49 50 Kristin Dougan Dissertations in the Electronic Age Tapping into Emerging Musicology Research Music Reference Services Quarterly 14 no 3 July 2011 109 130 On RILM Abstracts s journal coverage see Leslie Anne Troutman Comprehensiveness of Indexing in Three Music Periodical Databases Music Reference Services Quarterly 8 no 1 January 2001 39 51 and Alan Green The RILM Project Charting the Seas of Modern Musicological Literature College Music Symposium 40 January 2000 51 Jane Gottlieb Music Library and Research Skills 2nd ed New York Oxford University Press 2017 157 Martin D Jenkins A Descriptive Study of Subject Indexing and Abstracting in International Index to Music Periodicals RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and The Music Index Online Notes Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 57 no 4 June 2001 859 Barry S Brook Music Literature and Modern Communication Revolutionary Potentials of the ACLS CUNY RILM Project College Music Symposium 40 January 2000 31 41 A reprint of the visionary article of 1969 The languages were Croatian Czech Danish Dutch French German Hungarian Italian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovene Spanish and Swedish Published as RILM Abstracts of Music Literature International Thesaurus ed by Marilyn Bliss New York Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale 1990 The integral thesaurus was also published in the Russian language Jerzy Golos Russian Guide to the RILM International Thesaurus and Cumulative Index Russkij putevoditel po mezhdunarodnomu tezaurusu RILM i po kumulyativnomu indeksu New York Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale 1976 verification needed Michelle Hahn As Advertised A Preliminary Look at Compiling and Comparing Title Lists from Music Article Indexes Music Reference Services Quarterly 11 no 1 January 2008 36 See http newsbreaks infotoday com Digest EBSCO Expands Music Research Resources 112296 asp For a detailed description of RILM Music Encyclopedias see Jane Gottlieb Music Library and Research Skills 2nd ed New York Oxford University Press 2017 68 70 See https librarytechnology org news pr pl id 21749 See http www prweb com releases EBSCO RILM prweb13545489 htm EBSCO Information Services released RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text Online Searcher September October 2016 7 Bradford Lee Eden RILM Music Encyclopedias The Definitive Global Repository of Music Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Reference Reviews 30 no 7 2016 40 Jane Gottlieb Music Library and Research Skills 2nd ed New York Oxford University Press 2017 Laurie J Sampsel Digital Resource Review RILM Music Encyclopedias Nineteenth Century Music Review 15 no 1 April 2018 153 Stephen Henry New Media Reviews Notes Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 72 no 1 September 2016 149 Anna Lise P Santella The Ideal Dictionary Impossible Tasks Frank Adjustments and Lexicographical Innovations in the Creation of Grove Music Online Fontes Artis Musicae 63 no 3 2016 215 Laurie J Sampsel Digital Resource Review RILM Music Encyclopedias Nineteenth Century Music Review 15 no 1 April 2018 149 Laurie J Sampsel Digital Resource Review RILM Music Encyclopedias Nineteenth Century Music Review 15 no 1 April 2018 149 Markus Bandur Musikalisches Wissen und seine Geschichte als lexicographische Herausforderung Das Handworterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie Fontes Artis Musicae 63 no 3 2016 180 Tina Fruhauf Reports Bulletin of the ICTM 130 January 2016 34 35 Laurie J Sampsel Digital Resource Review RILM Music Encyclopedias Nineteenth Century Music Review 15 no 1 April 2018 149 Laurie J Sampsel Digital Resource Review RILM Music Encyclopedias Nineteenth Century Music Review 15 no 1 April 2018 149 Hanns Werner Heister Paper is Patient The Loose Leaf Lexicon Komponisten der Gegenwart and the Digital Future Fontes Artis Musicae 63 no 3 2016 209 Jean Harden Index to Printed Music IPM Collections amp Series by James Adrian Music Company Notes 67 no 4 June 2011 793 798 Pamela E Pagels Index to Printed Music IPM Music Reference Services Quarterly 16 no 4 2013 243 248 Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie Bibliolore IMS Newsletter 6 no 1 2019 14 Jane Gottlieb Music Library and Research Skills 2nd ed New York Oxford University Press 2017 48 Mark McKnight Review of Speaking of Music Music Conferences 1835 1966 Fontes Artis Musicae 52 no 1 January March 2005 65 Allen Scott Review of Liber Amicorum Festschriften for Music Scholars and Nonmusicians 1840 1966 Notes 67 no 1 September 2010 136 138 Pauline Shaw Bayne A Guide to Library Research in Music Lanham MD Scarecrow Press 2008 58 Laurel Tarulli Review of How to Write About Music The RILM Manual of Style Fontes Artis Musicae 55 no 2 April 2008 393 394 Rebecca Lentjes Review of How to Write About Music The RILM Manual of Style Opera Today 11 March 2015 http www operatoday com content 2015 03 how to write ab php Leonard Kendra Preston Review of How to Write About Music The RILM Manual of Style Journal of Music History Pedagogy 2 no 1 2011 116 Christiane Tewinkel Mozart und Madonna Die grosse Enzyklopadie Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart ist online Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 2 January 2019 Andreas Janke Review of MGG Online Journal of the American Musicological Society 71 2 Summer 2018 551 560 Nina Eichholz Review of MGG Online Forum Musikbibliothek 38 2 July 2017 63 64 MGG Online CMU Libraries Allan Badley Review of MGG Online Fontes Artis Musicae 64 3 July September 2017 312 314 Bibliography editBayne Pauline Shaw A Guide to Library Research in Music Lanham MD Scarecrow Press 2008 Blazekovic Zdravko RILM Abstracts of Music Literature in its Global Environment The Past and Vision for the Future Lecture 2014 Brook Barry S Music Literature and Modern Communication Revolutionary Potentials of the ACLS CUNY RILM project College Music Symposium 40 2000 31 41 Brook Barry S Music Literature and Modern Communication Some Revolutionary Potentials of the RILM Project Acta Musicologica 42 nos 3 4 1970 205 17 also published in Journal of the Indian Musicological Society 2 no 1 1971 9 19 Brook Barry S Musikliteratur und moderne Kommunikation Zum Projekt RILM Beitrage zur Musikwissenschaft 13 no 1 1971 18 20 Brook Barry S Some New Paths for Music Bibliography Computers in Humanistic Research Readings and Perspectives Englewood Cliffs Prentice Hall 1967 204 211 Brook Barry S The Road to RILM in Modern Music Librarianship In Honor of Ruth Watanabe ed Alfred Mann Stuyvesant Pendragon Press Kassel Barenreiter Verlag 1989 85 94 Cleveland Susannah and Joe C Clark eds Careers in Music Librarianship III Reality and Reinvention Milwaukee A R Editions 2014 Gottlieb Jane Music Library and Research Skills 2nd ed New York Oxford University Press 2017 Green Alan Keeping up with the Times Evaluating Currency of Indexing Language Coverage and Subject Area Coverage in the Three Music Periodical Index Databases Music Reference Services Quarterly 8 no 1 January 2001 53 68 Green Alan The RILM Project Charting the Seas of Modern Musicological Literature College Music Symposium 40 January 2000 42 54 Jenkins Martin D A Descriptive Study of Subject Indexing and Abstracting in International Index to Music Periodicals RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and The Music Index Online Notes Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 57 no 4 2001 834 863 Mackenzie Barbara Dobbs RILM at 40 A View from the Bridge Fontes Artis Musicae 54 no 4 2007 421 439 Mackenzie Barbara Dobbs RILM as a Starting Point for Research Ictus Periodico Do Programa de Pos Graduacao Em Musica Da UFBA 9 no 2 2008 48 58 Mackenzie Barbara Dobbs Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale RILM Immutable Mission amidst Continual Change in Music Libraries and the Academy Essays in Honor of Lenore Coral Middleton WI A R Editions 2007 129 142 Schiodt Nanna RILM Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale Dansk musiktidsskrift 45 no 4 1970 168 173 Schuursma Ann May Briegleb Summary Report of activities IAML Project Group on Classification and Indexing Fontes Artis Musicae 37 no 1 Jan Mar 1990 46 48 Spivacke Harold A New Journal of Abstracts for Musicologists Computers and the Humanities 2 no 3 1968 120 124 External links editOfficial website RILM Music Encyclopedias list of included sources Bibliolore The RILM Blog State Institute for Music Research Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale amp oldid 1178989176, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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