Release of How to Write About Music (Ebook)
New York. — March 10, 2023 — Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) releases…
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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…
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 coll…
RILM at MLA/TLA Conference in St. Louis, 2023
RILM would like to invite you to a luncheon in honor of Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie’s 30 years of dedi…
Metadata Internship at Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale
General description: Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) offers internships…
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Forging Aztecness
Today a growing number of Mexican-American musicians in the United States perform on Indigenous Mesoamerican instruments and archaeological replicas i…
Max Reger’s Würstiade
The Bavarian composer Max Reger was famous for his appetite. According to his biographer Fritz Stein, he was capable of consuming up to 30 little Bava…
RILM releases 3rd edition of How to Write About Music
On 10 March 2023 Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) released the third edition of How to Write About Music: The RILM Manual of…
Casey Jones at the crossroads
On 29 April 1900 the engineer John Luther “Casey” Jones died in the wreck of the Illinois Central's Cannonball, the fast passenger express from Ch…
Five illustrated bagpipes in “Musical instruments and their homes”: An insight into the 19th-century instrument collector’s world
Cassandre Balosso-Bardin Associate Professor, University of Lincoln Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Museum of Art In 1888 Mary Elizabeth Brown sent out…
Kulning and cows
In some Scandinavian regions, cows, sheep, and goats are taken up to mountain and forest pastures for summer grazing. Since the Middle Ages, such seas…
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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.