Think Music & Beyond: Interdisciplinary Research in the Age of Full Text
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Coming Soon! New Additions to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
This summer, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text will add ele…
Join RILM Virtually for MLA / TLA 2021
RILM – Think Theater! This year we are offering many ways for the MLA…
New Additions to RILM Music Encyclopedia
Three works have joined the continuously expanding collection of historical…
RILM on WeChat
In early November 2020, RILM inaugurated its social-media presence on WeCha…
Support from RILM for the New Academic Year
Dear music-research community, As you are getting ready for the upcoming…
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Journal of sound and music in games
In 2020 the University of California Press launched Journal of sound and music in games (eISSN 2578-3432), a peer-reviewed journal that presents high-…
NPR’s April Fools’ Day hoaxes
On this April Fools’ Day we celebrate a resource that chronicles how National Public Radio (NPR) has annually planted a hoax in their programming ea…
Philip Ewell: Erasing colorasure in American music theory, and confronting demons from our past
Photo by Pascal Perich Introduction: Dr. Philip Ewell, Associate Professor of Music at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City Universit…
Béla Bartók, entomologist
Béla Bartók is renowned as one of the twentieth century’s greatest composers and as one of the founders of ethnomusicology. Less known is his love…
The Bristol sessions
In the summer of 1927 a group of musicians gathered for a recording session in Bristol, on the Tennessee-Virginia border, including musicians who woul…
The female harp
The harp in its winged-maiden form was the standard symbol of Ireland in the eighteenth century, and with the rise of Romantic nationalism the harp wa…
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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.