The World’s Writings on a World of Music

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The World’s Writings on a World of Music

Founded in 1966, the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) is a global organization dedicated to documenting and making accessible the world’s musical knowledge across all traditions. Through digital collections and advanced tools, RILM serves research and performance communities worldwide. It is committed to preserving music scholarship in all languages, spanning cultural and disciplinary boundaries within the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Accredited by UNESCO, RILM plays a key role in safeguarding global musical heritage. Its headquarters are located at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York.

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RAPMM: Zines on Scenes Rarely Seen

RAPMM is an international, full-text digital collection of independently released, hard-to-find magazines and fanzines issued from the 1960s to the present. Released with over 125 publications, and continuously growing, RAPMM covers a wide array of popular music topics in the realm of punk and other rock genres, indie, hip hop, and country. A truly multidisciplinary resource, RAPMM preserves interviews, band profiles, album reviews, and other content that trace relationships between music and social movements, fashion, art, and subcultures.

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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

1,767,044 Records

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RILM Index to Scores and Collected Editions

592,520 records

RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines

RILM Music Encyclopedias

354,633 Entries

DEUMM Online

35,000+ Articles

MGG Online

20,000+ Articles

Book Publications

Hofmeister XIX

330,000 Records

RILM News

RILM Music Encyclopedias: New Additions for 2026

Two titles have just been added to RILM Music Encyclopedias, further enriching its collection of historical and current reference works:...

RILM at FAMI in New York, 2026

RILM will be in attendance at the Forging an American Musical Identity (FAMI) conference in New York, NY, 28–30 January...

RILM Acquires and Relaunches the Hofmeister XIX Database

New York, NY / London, UK – RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale), a global organization dedicated to documenting and...

RILM at AMS–SMT in Minneapolis, 2025

RILM will participate in the joint meeting of the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, 6–9...

RILM at SEM in Atlanta, 2025

RILM will participate in the 70th annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology in Atlanta, Georgia, 23–26 October 2025. On...

RILM at EBSCO Open Day in Turin, 2025

Executive Editor Zdravko Blažeković will be present at the EBSCO Open Day Torino on 22 October 2025. Held at the...

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Bibliolore: The RILM Blog

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RILM and the computer

In July 1965, RILM’s founder, Barry S. Brook, was conducting research in Europe when he attended the International Association of Music Libraries (I…

How RILM began

The idea for RILM, as its founder Barry S. Brook later reflected, originated in 1964 from the belief that "the alternative to automation was inundatio…

Happy 2026! RILM’s 60th anniversary begins

In 2026, Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) proudly marks its 60th anniversary! Established in 1966 by Barry S. Brook, RILM has…

Video dance: New spaces for creativity and engagement

The origins of video dance trace back to the late 19th century, when advancements in technology and science inspired intellectuals and artists to find…

Jamaica’s first superstar

James Chambers, better known as Jimmy Cliff, one of Jamaica’s most prolific and celebrated performers, and an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall o…

RILM acquires and relaunches the Hofmeister XIX database

01 December 2025 New York, NY / London, UK – RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale), a global organization dedicated to docume…

About Us

Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) documents and disseminates music research worldwide. Known for its flagship publication, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, a comprehensive international bibliography of writings on music covering publications from the early 19th century to the present (also available with a full-text enhancement of over 200 journals), RILM produces the annually expanding full-text repository RILM Music Encyclopedias and the Index to Printed Music. RILM maintains its own user platform, Egret, with advanced search and browse capabilities on which it hosts the comprehensive encyclopedia MGG Online, and RILM Music Encyclopedias.

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