RILM at MOLA in Berlin, 2023
Editor and MGG Online Product Development Coordinator Georg Burgstaller will exhibit RILM’s resour…
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RILM at Echos: Sound Ecosystems in Travelogues, 2023
RILM will participate in the Echos: Sound Ecosystems in Travelogues conference, held in Padua, Italy…
RILM and The Brook Center Present the International Conference Global Digital Music Studies, New York, 2023
From 12 to 13 April 2023, Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) and The Barry S.
Release of How to Write About Music (Ebook)
New York. — 10 March 2023 — Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) releases t…
RILM is Hiring (Associate Editor, European Languages)
RILM seeks to fill an Associate Editor position in its International Office in New York City. The su…
RILM is Hiring (Associate Editor, Japanese)
RILM seeks to fill an Associate Editor position in its International Office in New York City. The su…
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Zilipendwa and nostalgia
Tanzanian zilipendwa is a look-over-the-shoulder metagenre whose musical subject is a moving target dependent on the current time reference. The te…
If it’s Mozart, it’s a masterpiece!
Since the mid–19th-century discovery of the sinfonia concertante for four winds sometimes labeled K.297b, the work has been considered authentic by…
The first Karnatak music conference
On 27 May 1912 the first Karnatak music conference was convened in Thanjāvūr. Hosted by the celebrated practitioner of Siddha medicine and de…
Ligeti and Africa
György Ligeti freely acknowledged the influence of African music on his work—an influence that is seldom readily obvious, though it can be teased o…
Shaker dance spaces
The Shakers built their first framed meetinghouse near New Lebanon, New York, along the Massachusetts border, in 1785; this structure assumed the cent…
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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.