This summer, RILM Abstracts with Full Text will add eight more titles to its full-text journal collection. The new titles are:

• Българско музикознание [B”lgarsko muzikoznanie/Bulgarian musicology]. Sofiâ: B”lgarskata Akademiâ na Naukite, Institut za Izkustvoznanie, 1977–. ISSN 0204-823X
• Canadian winds/Vents canadiens: Journal of the Canadian Band Association/Revue de l’Association canadienne des harmonies. Toronto: Canadian Band Association/Association Canadienne de l’Harmonie, 2002–. ISSN 1703-5295
• Fontes artis musicae. Madison: A-R Editions, 1954–. ISSN 0015-6191
• 関渡音樂學刊 [Guandu yinyue xuekan]/Kuandu music journal. Taibei: Guoli Taibei Yishu Daxue/Taipei National University of the Arts, 2004–. ISSN 1814-1889
• Journal of Christian musicology. Ilé-Ifẹ̀: Obafemi Awolowo University, 2020–. ISSN 2782-8433
• Liuteria, musica e cultura: Organo ufficiale dell’Associazione liutaria italiana. Cremona: Associazione Liuteria Italiana, 2006–. ISSN 1825-7054
• Studi musicali. Firenze: Leo S. Oschki, 1972–2009. ISSN 0391-7789 and eISSN 2037-6413
• Studien zur Musikwissenschaft: Beihefte der Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich. Wien: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, 2017–. ISSN 0930-9578

These additions exemplify RILM’s commitment to providing full-text content that is truly international in scope, with coverage that embraces a diversity of languages, nations, subject matter, and approaches to music research.  

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text is a comprehensive bibliography of writings on music, featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. It covers over one million publications from the early 19th century to the present on traditional music, popular music, jazz, classical music, and related subjects, enhanced with full text.

If you do not already subscribe to RILM Abstracts with Full Text, get in touch with your EBSCO sales representative, or email information@ebsco.com.

RILM will participate in the 94th Annual Meeting of the Music Library Association (MLA) held online 17–21 March, 2025. 

On Monday, 17 March, 4:30-4:55 pm EDT, Executive Editor Zdravko Blažeković and Editor Beatriz Goubert will host RILM’s Exhibitor Spotlight. Zdravko will speak about RILM’s newest product, DEUMM Online, and Beatriz will discuss the RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM), set to be launched on 27 May at The CUNY Graduate Center. The spotlight will conclude with a brief Q&A session.

To learn more about RILM products or to share feedback, please visit Liz Martin-Ruiz, Ian McGorray, and Jackie Santos, who will be available live through the Exhibit section of the Cvent app. Through this platform, attendees can also view videos and materials related to all of RILM’s products, as well download information about updates. 

Feel free to drop by the RILM virtual exhibitor booth or make an appointment by contacting subscriptions@rilm.org. And for details on the event, head to the conference website, or peruse the program. 

We look forward to seeing you soon!

RILM will participate in the conference Musicology and Music Librarianship in Cultural Context in Honor of Stephanie Merakos, organized by the IMS Study Group Music and Cultural Studies and The Friends of Music Society Athens. The event will be held in Athens, Greece, 20–21 February 2025.

On Thursday, 20 February, at 11:00am local time, Executive Editor Zdravko Blažeković will give his paper “Francesco Bianchini’s designs of angels: Musicians for the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano”. Later that day, at 5:30pm local time, Zdravko will chair Stephanie Merakos’s keynote address. RILM is profoundly grateful for all the work that Merakos has done as chair of the Greek committee for the past 25 years.

Please feel free to stop Zdravko and ask questions, provide feedback, or just say hello. And for details, including the conference schedule and program, please visit the “L.Voudouri” Music Library of Greece website.

RILM will participate in this year’s NISO Plus conference held in Baltimore, Maryland, 10–13 February 2025.

On Wednesday, 12 January, 10:45am–12:00pm EST, Executive Director Tina Frühauf will chair the panel Metadata, Preservation, and Digital Futures Across Cultural Heritage in Room Laurel AB. Tina will be joined by fellow discussants Kimberly Graham, Michael Stewart, and Benjamin Kynsak to address topics surrounding how metadata can better serve as an important layer for digital safeguarding and the preservation of cultural heritage.

Please feel free to stop Tina and ask questions, provide feedback, or just say hello. Head to the event details page on the conference schedule to learn more.

RILM Music Encyclopedias has just added three new titles into its continuously expanding collection of historical and current reference texts:

• Sokol Shupol, ed. Biographical dictionary of Balkan composers (Tirana: Asmus, 2005) 704 p. In English.
• Ilan Stavans, ed. Latin music: Musicians, genres, and themes (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2014) 2 vols., xix, xiv, 923 p. In English.
• David Damschroder and David Russell Williams. Music theory from Zarlino to Schenker: A bibliography and guide (Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1990) xliii, 522 p. In English.

The 2025 additions showcase the broad, international scope that is a hallmark of RILM Music Encyclopedias’ subject-specific, full-text coverage. The Biographical dictionary of Balkan composers shines a much needed light on often underrepresented musicians from the region, while Latin music offers insight into the histories, movements, and transformations of the music of Latin America. Both reveal important elements of their respective subjects’ cultural heritage. Music theory from Zarlino to Schenker explores the changing assumptions and musical practices that have guided Western art music theories across over 500 years.  

RILM Music Encyclopedias can be accessed via EBSCOhost and on RILM’s platform Egret at rme.rilm.org.

For further information, please email encyclopedias@rilm.org

RILM will participate in the 48th world conference of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD) held in Wellington, New Zealand, 9–15 January 2025.

On Saturday, 11 January, 5:00–6:30pm NZST, Executive Director Tina Frühauf and Executive Editor Zdravko Blažeković will lead a workshop on research techniques and bibliography in Room T1. The workshop will consider how ethnographers and practitioners in ethnomusicology and dance studies–especially graduate students and other junior scholars–can navigate databases, reference works, and other research tools. The topic of abstract writing may be covered as well. 

Please feel free to stop Tina or Zdravko and ask questions, provide feedback, or just say hello. Learn more about this event on the conference website.

RILM will participate in the 30th annual conference of the Associazione fra i Docenti Universitari Italiani di Musica (ADUIM), held in Bologna, Italy, 12–14 December 2024.

On 12 December, 5:30pm CET, Executive Editor Zdravko Blažeković will appear on the roundtable La Ricerca Oggi nel Contesto Internazionale (Contemporary Research in an International Context), where he will discuss RILM’s dissemination of scholarship from Italy, as well as the recently launched DEUMM Online.

Please feel free to stop Zdravko and ask questions, provide feedback, or just say hello. Learn more about this event on the conference website.

On Tuesday, 19 November 2024, at 4:30 pm CET / 10:30 am EST an event dedicated to the release of DEUMM Online, sponsored by the Istituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte, will take place at the Teatro Regio, Sala del caminetto, in Turin, Italy.

DEUMM Online digitizes, enhances, and extends the Dizionario enciclopedico universale della musica e dei musicisti (DEUMM), the most important modern music dictionary in the Italian language. Comprising a broad range of entries (persons, topics, dances, genres, geographical locations, institutions, instruments, and works), DEUMM Online uses advanced and intuitive search and translation functionalities. This venerable music encyclopedia, which has set the standards in modern Italian music lexicography, is, in its new online format, once again an indispensable node in a comprehensive, international, networked research experience.

The program will include Daniele Trucco’s DEUMM-inspired music, greetings from Simone Solinas (Director of Communications and Press, Fondazione Teatro Regio di Torino), Cristina Santarelli (President, Istituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte), and Tina Fruehauf (Executive Director, RILM), as well as presentations by Zdravko Blazekovic (Executive Editor, RILM) and DEUMM Online’s general editors Antonio Baldassarre and Daniela Castaldo.

The evening will also feature a conversation between DEUMM’s founding editor Alberto Basso and musicologist Giorgio Pestelli, as well as a discussion among Gianfranco Vinay, Loris Maria Marchetti, and Cristina Santarelli, who were among the print volume’s original editors.

Hear more about DEUMM Online: https://www.rilm.org/deumm-online/deumm-release/

Download the DEUMM Online brochure and logo: https://www.rilm.org/librarians/

Watch the DEUMM Online trailer (Italian): https://youtu.be/0zaQL8N2yAU?si=rD_RUmUc-SNxwU4T

On 21 November 2024, at 4:00. pm CET / 10:00 EST, in collaboration with sponsors Archivio Storico Ricordi, DEUMM Online will be featured at an event at the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense in Milan.

DEUMM Online digitizes, enhances, and extends the Dizionario enciclopedico universale della musica e dei musicisti (DEUMM), the most important modern music dictionary in the Italian language. Comprising a broad range of entries (persons, topics, dances, genres, geographical locations, institutions, instruments, and works), DEUMM Online uses advanced and intuitive search and translation functionalities. This venerable music encyclopedia, which has set the standards in modern Italian music lexicography, is, in its new online format, once again an indispensable node in a comprehensive, international, networked research experience.

The program includes Daniele Trucco’s DEUMM-inspired music, greetings from Pierluigi Ledda (Director of the Archivio Storico Ricordi) and Tina Fruehauf (Executive Director, RILM), as well as presentations by Zdravko Blazekovic (Executive Editor, RILM), Claudio Toscani (Università di Milano), Carlo Lanfossi (Università di Milano), and DEUMM Online’s general editors Antonio Baldassarre and Daniela Castaldo.

Hear more about DEUMM Online: https://www.rilm.org/deumm-online/deumm-release/

Download the DEUMM Online brochure and logo: https://www.rilm.org/librarians/

Watch the DEUMM Online trailer (Italian): https://youtu.be/0zaQL8N2yAU?si=rD_RUmUc-SNxwU4T

RILM will participate in the annual conference of the American Musicological Society (AMS), held in Chicago, 14–17 November 2023.

On Thursday, 14 November, 2:15–3:45pm CDT, Executive Director Tina Frühauf will chair the panel Jewish Voices in Salon 12. She will also chair the panel Religious Conversion and Music among Christians and Jews: A Transhistorical View on Friday, November 15, 12:30–2:00pm CDT in the Crystal Room. 

On Friday, 15 November, 2:15–3:45pm CDT, Editor Ralph Whyte will lead a workshop on research techniques and bibliography in the Crystal Room. The workshop will consider how music scholars–especially graduate students and other junior scholars–can navigate databases, reference works, and other research tools.

On Friday, 15 November, 5:45–7:45pm CDT, RILM and RIPM will host a joint reception for all conference attendees in the Hancock Parlor. 

Throughout the conference, RILM staff can also be found at the RILM booth in the exhibition hall. Stop by to learn more about all of RILM’s resources.