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RILM at Echos: Sound Ecosystems in Travelogues, 2023
RILM will participate in the Echos: Sound Ecosystems in Travelogues conference, held in Padua, Italy…
RILM and The Brook Center Present the International Conference Global Digital Music Studies, New York, 2023
From 12 to 13 April 2023, Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) and The Barry S.
Release of How to Write About Music (Ebook)
New York. — 10 March 2023 — Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) releases t…
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…
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Ligeti and Africa
György Ligeti freely acknowledged the influence of African music on his work—an influence that is seldom readily obvious, though it can be teased o…
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Untitled Reusable Block
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Shaker dance spaces
The Shakers built their first framed meetinghouse near New Lebanon, New York, along the Massachusetts border, in 1785; this structure assumed the cent…
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Wagner and Buddhism
Scholars have long known that Wagner had a deep and lasting interest in Buddhism; less known are the specific insights garnered from Buddhism that are…
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Women in early modern Florence
Aristocratic women exerted unprecedented political and social influence in Florence throughout the late 16th and early 17th century; during this perio…
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Benin Journal of Music and the Arts
In 2022 the Music Programme of the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Benin (Benin City, Nigeria) launched Benin Journal of Music and the…
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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.