RILM will participate at the eighth biennial conference of the International Musicological Society Regional Association for East Asia (IMSEA) in Nanning, China, 19–21 September 2025.

The aim of IMSEA is to provide a forum for exchanges among music researchers in the region, regardless of their areas of specializations and subjects of studies.

On Saturday, 20 September, 2:00–2:30 pm local time, Executive Editor Zdravko Blažeković will present his paper “Michael Alphonsius Shen Fu-Tsung 沈福宗 and his sheng” on the panel Transmission and Adaptation of Instruments.  

Please feel free to find Zdravko and ask questions, provide feedback, or say hello. For more details on this event, please visit the conference website on which you’ll find the conference schedule.

RILM will participate at this year’s meeting of the German group of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML) in Dresden, Germany, 16–19 September 2025.

This event represents the group’s annual working and training conference for professionals from all areas of the German music library system.

On Wednesday, 17 September, at 1:00 pm local time, Editor Georg Burgstaller will give a presentation on RILM’s newest product, the RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines. 

In addition, Georg will be present at the RILM exhibitor’s booth throughout the conference. Please feel free to come by to ask questions, provide feedback, or just say hello. You can find more details on this event on the conference website, which includes the conference schedule.

In January 2026, RILM Music Encyclopedias will welcome significant additions to its expanding collection of historical and current reference works:

• Igor de Gandarias, Diccionario de la música en Guatemala (rev. ed.; Ciudad de Guatemala: Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, 2024) xv, 193 p. — In Spanish.
• Frank Daykin, Encyclopedia of French art song: Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc (Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2013) vi, 739 p. — In English.
• Hugo Riemann, ed., Musik-Lexikon (5th edition; Leipzig: Max Hesse’s Verlag, 1900) xxiii, 1284 p. — In German.

These titles underline RILM Music Encyclopedias’s hallmark of offering comprehensive, international, subject-specific coverage through full-text content. 

The Diccionario de la música en Guatemala is the first reference work dedicated to the nation’s diverse musical traditions, encompassing Indigenous, colonial, and contemporary influences. The Encyclopedia of French art song provides an in-depth exploration of individual mélodies by Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc, bridging performance practice with scholarly research. Complementing these region- and genre-specific volumes is the fifth edition of Hugo Riemann’s Musik-Lexikon; this edition joins the eleventh (edited by Alfred Einstein). Together, these additions highlight RILM Music Encyclopedias’ critical role in preserving, contextualizing, and deepening global understandings of musical traditions and its historiography. 

RILM Music Encyclopedias is available via EBSCOhost and on RILM’s platform, Egret, at rme.rilm.org.

For further information, please contact encyclopedias@rilm.org.

RILM will participate in the international workshop Digitize. Transform. Inspire: Shaping the archives of tomorrow in Vienna, Austria, 1–2 September 2025.

Executive Director Tina Frühauf will be in attendance to collaborate with attendees from all continents looking to explore how digital archives can be unlocked through digitization, innovative technologies, and cross-sector partnerships.