he National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded RILM a major grant that will allow us to expand our scope to include one of the most valuable repositories of music resarch, one that has been virtually inaccessible to researchers: articles published in Festschriften before 1967. (For the press release, click here.) While we have some excellent sources for identifying pre-1967 Festschriften, they are no doubt less than exhaustive, particularly (but not only) for those publications in languages other than German, French, Italian, Spanish, or English; those that honor organizations or institutions rather than individuals; and those that are mainly devoted to topics other than music but that include at least one music-related article. We would be very grateful for help in identifying Festschriften that we might otherwise miss. Click here to continue
Rilm is pleased to announce that the annotated bibliography Speaking of music: Music conferences, 1835-1966 has just won the Music Library Association’s prestigious Vincent H. Duckles Award for the best music research tool published in 2004. The award was presented at the Music Library Association’s 75th annual conference in Memphis, Tennessee, on 25 March 2006. At the presentation of the award, Speaking of music was described as “a bibliography that bares new paths for the history of musical scholarship as a field of study.” Press release.
RILM is pleased to announce the publication of the revised and expanded second edition of
First published in November 2005, How to write about music adresses a multitude of special problems faced by writers on music—problems rarely treated in conventional writing guides. The second edition includes a new chapter on indexing and many revisions and additions throughout. For more information and to buy now, click here.
Additional titles
Published February 2005, RILM’s newest venture expands into a new territory: It is a compilation of recipes from the staff at the RILM International Center in New York. Buy now
Published May 2004, this volume, the 4th in the RILM Retrospective Series, covers some 500 music conferences from the year before RILM was founded back to the early 19th century. For more information and to buy now, click here
Recent events
The first conference of the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale was held at The City University of New York Graduate Center, 16-19 March 2005. Click here for more details.
RILM Abstracts is now available online (updated monthly) through CSA, EBSCO, NISC, Ovid SilverPlatter, and OCLC, and on CD-ROM (updated quarterly) through NISC. All five online vendors offer free trials. For details on links to full-text and the many other features offered by each vendor, click here.
NISC is now offering individual subscriptions for a LOW price of $250 per year. So now is a great time to give yourself a gift—the convenience of your own subscription and the ability to use RILM when and where you like.
ATTENTION SMALL INSTITUTIONS! For all colleges with FTE less than 1000 that do not specialize in the performing arts or music, RILM, in cooperation with all our vendors, will give 50% off the regular subscription rate. To learn more, contact the vendor of your choice.
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RILM can now be searched with two other R's: RIPM and
RISM. RISM has newly been added to the music databases available through
NISC, and that addition makes this wide three-R searching possible.
The electronic versions of RILM include thousands of current citations covering periodicals and books published as recently as last month. These searchable citations are replaced with RILM's fully abstracted and thoroughly indexed records as soon as they become available. Every month new current citations and new complete records are added to our online databases.
A staff and some 60 committees of professional musicologists, music librarians, ethnomusicologists, and theorists who abstract, edit, and index our publications. Many of our abstracts are written by the authors themselves, further assuring accuracy and quality.
Listings of articles in collections of essays, conference proceedings, and festschrifts. The other music literature bibliographies do not cover these crucial sources of music scholarship.
Listings of books, dissertations, and theses published in some 60 countries around the world in addition to US publications. No other bibliographies cover this range of material.
Listings of music articles in non-music journals. The number of important articles found in non-music journals is growing significantly as music scholarship, along with other disciplines, becomes increasingly interdisciplinary.