RILM at AMS in Chicago, 2024
RILM will participate in the annual conference of the American Musicological Society (AMS), held in…
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RILM at CMS in Washington, DC, 2024
RILM will participate at the 67th national conference of the College Music Society, held from 7 to 9…
RILM Launches DEUMM Online
RILM will officially release DEUMM Online on Wednesday, 30 October 2024, at 7:30 pm CET / 2:30 pm ES…
RILM at SEM, 2024
RILM will participate at the 69th annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, a fully virtual…
RILM Music Encyclopedias: New Additions for 2025
In January 2025, RILM Music Encyclopedias will welcome three new titles into its continuously expand…
RILM at IAML Deutschland, 2024
RILM will participate at this year’s meeting of the German group of the International Association…
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As a child prodigy, Quincy Jones was awarded a scholarship to what would later become the prestigious Berklee College of Music, where he began his stu…
Myanmar's hsaìng waìng ensemble
The hsaìng waìng ensemble of Myanmar (Burma) derives its name from its primary instrument, a circular drum set consisting of 21 drums suspended in a…
Vocality and the Frankenstein complex
A monster's vocality and capacity for communication have been complicated themes since the earliest adaptations of the novel. The evolution of the mon…
RILM Launches DEUMM Online
RILM cordially invites you to join us for the release of DEUMM Online on Wednesday, 30 October 2024, at 7:30 pm CET / 1:30 pm EST. Co-sponsored by the…
Utopian desire and ukulele music in Japan
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The Ronettes' proto-rock magic
As classic exponents of producer Phil Spector’s “wall of sound”, The Ronettes combined their striking beehive hairstyles and heavy mascara to ad…
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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.