The World’s Writings on a World of Music

The World’s Writings on a World of Music2

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

1,800,220 Records

With Full Text

RILM Index to Scores and Collected Editions

594,283 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

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RILM at IAML in Thessaloniki, 2026

RILM will participate at the annual Congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML) in...

Call for Papers: Music Studies, Africa, and the African Diaspora: Past, Present, Future—A Pan-African Conference

Call For Papers Tunis Leg: 31 March–2 April 2027 (no registration fee) Convened by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale International...

Forthcoming Additions to RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines

This summer, RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM) will add 12 publications to its collection. The new titles are:...

RILM at ARLIS/NA in Montréal, 2026

RILM will participate, for the first time, in the 54th annual meeting of the Art Libraries Society of North America...

Forthcoming Additions to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text

This summer, RILM Abstracts with Full Text will add eleven more titles to its full-text journal collection. The new titles...

RILM at IASPM-US in Washington, D.C., 2026

RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM) Product Coordinator Lindsey Eckenroth will be in attendance at the conference of the...

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Bibliolore: The RILM Blog

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From the EBSCOpost backlist. IV: Mastering the mix: Choosing authentic popular music material for libraries (2018)

RILM staff periodically contribute writings to EBSCOpost, a lively blog run by our partners that publishes pieces pertinent to librarianship, higher e…

RILM's first digital platform

From its inception in the mid-1960s, it was clear that a sophisticated set of computer programs would be essential to achieve the goals of the newly e…

Asha Bhosle: Legendary voice of Bollywood films

Asha Bhosle and her sister Lata Mangeshkar stand as the undisputed leading voices of Bollywood film music. Across decades of cinema, both singers buil…

RILM Index to Scores and Collected Editions

RILM Index to Scores and Collected Editions (RISE) is a comprehensive digital finding aid that helps users locate musical works published within colle…

From the EBSCOpost backlist. III: What is music pedagogy? Universality of education in sound and sound in education (2019)

RILM staff periodically contribute writings to EBSCOpost, a lively blog run by our partners that publishes pieces pertinent to librarianship, higher e…

The Iraqi maqām: An Intangible Cultural Heritage at risk

The instrumental ensemble of the Iraqi Maqam, al-chālghī, as depicted on a 2002 national stamp. This post inaugurates a series that will feat…

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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