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RILM at NISO Plus in Baltimore, 2025
RILM will participate in this year’s NISO Plus conference held in Baltimore, Maryland, 10–13 Feb…
New Additions to RILM Music Encyclopedias
RILM Music Encyclopedias has just added three new titles into its continuously expanding collection…
RILM at ICTMD in Wellington, 2025
RILM will participate in the 48th world conference of the International Council for Traditions of Mu…
RILM at ADUIM in Bologna, 2024
RILM will participate in the 30th annual conference of the Associazione fra i Docenti Universitari I…
Presentation of DEUMM Online in Turin, Italy
On Tuesday, 19 November 2024, at 4:30 pm CET / 10:30 am EST an event dedicated to the release of DEU…
Presentation of DEUMM Online in Milan, Italy
On 21 November 2024, at 4:00. pm CET / 10:00 EST, in collaboration with sponsors Archivio Storico Ri…
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Featured image for post 'Jose Maceda reimagines time
Jose Maceda reimagines time
The Filipino ethnomusicologist and composer Jose Maceda created unique works that blended his fieldwork on Filipino and other music with his expertise…
Featured image for post 'Tin Pan Alley and early film music
Tin Pan Alley and early film music
From 1918 to 1928, Tin Pan Alley solidified its connection with the film industry. Although early films lacked sound, music played a crucial role in e…
Featured image for post 'Throbbing Gristle, industrial music, and civilization wrecking
Throbbing Gristle, industrial music, and civilization wrecking
In 1976, four artists from England—Genesis P-Orridge, Chris Carter, Peter Christopherson, and performance artist Cosey Fanni Tutti—formed Throbbin…
Featured image for post 'The rubāb's cultural heritage in Afghanistan
The rubāb's cultural heritage in Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s national instrument, the rubāb, a short-necked lute, is also popular in northwest India and Pakistan and may be the ancestor of the s…
Featured image for post 'The many lives of the ʿūd
The many lives of the ʿūd
The library of the Institut du Monde Arabe (Arab World Institute) in Paris is home to an extensive collection of writings on music from the Arab world…
Featured image for post 'Synchromism's optics and acoustics
Synchromism's optics and acoustics
The avant-garde artistic movement known as synchromism was founded in Paris in 1913 by the American modernist painters Morgan Russell and Stanton Macd…
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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.