Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale
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| Industry | Indexing and abstracting service |
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| Founded | 1966 |
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City University of New York New York City, New York, United States |
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Key people
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Barbara Mackenzie, Editor-in-Chief Zdravko Blazekovic, Executive Editor |
| Owner | IAML, ICTM, and IMS |
| Website | www |
Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (International Repertory of Music Literature; Internationales Repertorium der Musikliteratur), commonly known by its acronym RILM, seeks to provide a comprehensive and accurate representation of music scholarship in all countries and languages, and across all disciplinary and cultural boundaries. For anyone with an interest in learning about any type of, or any aspect of, music, RILM offers powerful tools for locating research on all topics related to the discipline.
Central to RILM’s work and mission is the international bibliography of scholarship relating to all facets of music. RILM covers significant scholarship in both printed and digital media, and in any language. It consists of citations of articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, master’s theses and doctoral dissertations, Festschriften, films, videos, technical drawings of instruments, facsimile editions, iconographies, commentaries included with critical editions of music, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, and reviews. Each entry provides the title in the original language, an English translation of the title, full bibliographic data, and an abstract with a keyword index. Many of the non-English entries also include an abstract in the language of the publication. RILM is currently growing at the rate of over 50,000 listings each year.
RILM was founded in 1966 by the American musicologist Barry S. Brook (1918–1997) under the joint sponsorship of the International Musicological Society (IMS) and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML). These organizations have since been joined by the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM). At the time of its founding, RILM was the first abstracted bibliography in the humanities and designated by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) as the pilot project for the development of a computerized, bibliographical system in the humanities to serve as a model for the more than 30 constituent scholarly societies of the ACLS. RILM’s development of procedures for computerized data processing was immediately adopted by RILA (Répertoire International de Littérature d’Art), founded upon RILM’s model, which started publishing abstracts in 1975.
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