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RILM Music Encyclopedias

The ever-expanding full-text compilation of reference works that facilitates unprecedented federated searches

69
encyclopedias
1775-2024
Publication Dates
353,629
Entries

What is RILM Music Encyclopedias?

RILM Music Encyclopedias is an ever-expanding full-text collection of reference works that provides comprehensive encyclopedic coverage of the most important fields and subject areas of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and theory. An extensive resource, it is designed to meet the teaching, learning, and research needs of the international music communities.

Languages and Countries

In line with RILM’s global mission, the content of RILM Music Encyclopedias spans multiple countries and languages—currently English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Albanian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Greek, Portuguese, and Slovak.

Topics

Topics covered by the reference works in RILM Music Encyclopedias are wide ranging from popular music and rock, opera, instruments, blues and gospel, to performers and women composers.

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Encyclopedia Titles

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