RILM at the 2023 AMS–SMT Joint Annual Meeting
RILM will participate in the joint conference of the American Musicological Society (AMS) and Societ…
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RILM at CMS, 2023
RILM will host pre- and post-conference virtual information sessions, as well as an in-person happy…
RILM at SEM, 2023
RILM will participate at the 68th meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology held in Ottawa, Canada,…
RILM Music Encyclopedias: New Additions for 2024
In January 2024, four new works will join the continuously expanding collection of historical and cu…
RILM in Medellín, 2023
RILM Editor Beatriz Goubert will be a featured speaker at the Seminario de Músicas Regionales, host…
RILM at IAML in Cambridge, 2023
RILM will participate at this year’s meeting of the International Association of Music Libraries,…
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Scott Walker, Sunn O))), and the apocalyptic tone
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Ellis Marsalis, jazz pianist, educator, and Marsalis family patriarch
Ellis Marsalis first learned to play the clarinet and saxophone but the piano later became his main instrument. From 1951 to 1955, he completed a bach…
Cultural politics of the Warlpiri purlapa
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Comic farce and the operatic satire of Borodin
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Live film music at the Hollywood Bowl
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"Asadoya yunta": An Okinawan song's history
マタハリヌ チンダラカヌシャマヨ Mataharinu chindara kanushamayo (See you again, for you are beautiful) Asadoya yunta (安里屋…
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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.