New Additions to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
This summer, RILM Abstracts with Full Text will add eight more titles to its full-text journal colle…
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RILM at MLA, 2025
RILM will participate in the 94th Annual Meeting of the Music Library Association (MLA) held online…
RILM at Musicology and Music Librarianship in Cultural Context in Honour of Stephanie Merakos in Athens, 2025
RILM will participate in the conference Musicology and Music Librarianship in Cultural Context in Ho…
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…
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Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) set to introduce its latest product at the special event Sites + Sounds + Scenes
Mark your calendars! On May 27, 2025, at 4:30 pm, at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RI…
Extreme metal and authoritarianism in Indonesia
In the mid-1990s, Indonesia’s authoritarian regime viewed extreme metal as a direct challenge to its enforced ideals of harmony and social stability…
New titles for RILM Abstracts with Full Text in 2025
RILM Abstracts with Full Text will add eight more titles to its full-text journal collection this summer. The new titles are: Българско …
Solfeggio’s rebirth
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Freddie King, the Texas blues guitar icon
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Ecoacoustics and birdsong recording
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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.