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.

RILM will participate at the 67th national conference of the College Music Society, held from 7 to 9 November 2024 in Washington, D.C.

On Thursday, 7 November, at 5:30pm EST in Room Columbia D, Assistant Editor / Marketing & Media Coordinator Michael Lupo will give a short presentation at the RILM-sponsored reception Celebrating CMS Scholarship, which showcases recent publications by CMS authors. Michael’s talk will introduce RILM; highlight the value of its products for teachers, students, performers, and researchers; and reveal the top-reviewed pedagogy publications in RILM Abstracts of Music Literature from 2020 to 2021.

Additionally, on Friday, 15 November, from 3:30 to 4:30 EST, Michael will host “Teaching the art of the program note”, a post-conference virtual information session centered on best practices for writing a program note.

Michael will also 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 also includes a link to the conference schedule.

RILM will officially release DEUMM Online on Wednesday, 30 October 2024, at 7:30 pm CET / 2:30 pm EST. Co-sponsored by the Associazione fra i Docenti Universitari Italiani di Musica (ADUIM) and IAML-Italia, the event will take place in the Teatro Palladium auditorium in Rome, 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 Luca Aversano (President, ADUIM), Marcoemilio Camera (President, IAML Italia), and Tina Frühauf (Executive Director, RILM), as well as presentations by Zdravko Blažeković (Executive Editor, RILM), Stefano Campagnolo (Director, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma), Alex Braga (composer), and DEUMM Online’s general editors Antonio Baldassarre and Daniela Castaldo. Pianist Giuseppe Magagnino will also perform works by Ellington, Beethoven, The Beatles, and more.

For those unable to join the Rome event in person, the event will be live streamed on the Fondazione Roma Tre Teatro Palladium’s YouTube channel.

DEUMM Online will also be featured again at the following events:  

• 19 November 2024: Turin, hosted by Istituto per i Beni Musicali di Piemonte at the Teatro Regio
• 21 November 2024: Milan, hosted by the Archivio Storico Ricordi in the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense

Hear more about DEUMM Online, and download the DEUMM Online brochure and logo.

Watch the DEUMM Online trailer (Italian)

RILM will participate at the 69th annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, a fully virtual event held from 17 to 26 October 2024.

On Thursday, 17 October, at 12:30pm EDT, Editor Russell Skelchy will host the virtual session Workshop on Research Tools for Ethnomusicology: Navigating Bibliography, Historiography, and Ethnography. The workshop will be dedicated to developing research techniques with a focus on bibliography, historiography, online databases, and other research tools relevant to ethnographers and practitioners in the field of ethnomusicology, especially graduate students and junior scholars.

On Sunday, 20 October, at 7:00pm Editor Mu Qian will participate in the roundtable discussion Decolonization as Praxis in Chinese Music Research.  

In addition, Russ, along with RILM Assistant Editor/Marketing & Media Coordinator Michael Lupo, 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. For more details on this event, please visit the conference website.

In January 2025, RILM Music Encyclopedias will welcome 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 at this year’s meeting of the German group of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from 17 to 20 September 2024.

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

On Wednesday, 18 September, at 1:00 pm local time, Editor and MGG Online Product Development Coordinator Georg Burgstaller will give a company presentation updating delegates on new developments at RILM. 

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 also includes a link to the conference schedule.

RILM will participate at this year’s 6th meeting of the IMS Regional Association for Latin America and the Caribbean (ARLAC) at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City, Mexico, from 7 to 10 August 2024.

On Thursday, 8 August, at 9:00 am local time, RILM’s Executive Editor and DEUMM Online product coordinator Zdravko Blažeković will moderate the panel “DEUMM Online: Reconceptualizing Dizionario enciclopedico universale della musica e dei musicisti for 21st-Century Music Research”, which presents plans for the coverage of music and musical life in South American music. He will be joined by discussants Antonio Baldassarre, Egberto Bermúdez, and Daniela Castaldo.

Please feel free to find Zdravko and ask questions, provide feedback, or just say hello. You can find more information on the conference website, which includes the complete schedule of events.

RILM Abstracts with Full Text just added ten more titles to its full-text journal collection. The new titles are:

• A handbook for studies in 18th-century English music. London: Gerald Coke Handel Foundation, 1987–. ISSN 0000-0000
• Context: A journal of the postgraduate students of the University of Melbourne School of Music. Melbourne: Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, 1991–. ISSN 1038-4006
• Contrapulso: Revista latinoamericana de estudios en música popular. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado, 2019–. ISSN 2452-5545
• Hoquet: Revista del Conservatorio Superior de Música de Málaga. Málaga: Conservatorio Superior de Música de Málaga, 2001–. eISSN 2340-454X
• The Haydn yearbook/Das Haydn Jahrbuch. Bryn Mawr: Theodore Presser Company, 1962–1978. ISSN 0073-1390
• Lien: Revue d’esthétique musicale. Ohain: Musiques et Recherches, 1988–. ISSN 0776-4650
• Muzikologické fórum: Časopis České společnosti pro hudební vědu/Journal of the Czech Musicological Society. Praha: Česká Společnost pro Hudební Vědu, 2012–. ISSN 1805-3866
• Muzikos komponavimo principai/Principles of music composing. Vilnius: Lietuvos Muzikos ir Teatro Akademija, 2001–. ISSN 2351-5155
• Музыкальная академия [Muzykal’naâ akademiâ/Music academy]. Moskva: Kompozitor, 1933–. ISSN 0869-4516 and eISSN 2686-9284
• Southern music education journal. Jackson: University of Mississippi, 2004–2010. ISSN 1557-0835

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 at this year’s meeting of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML) in Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 23 to 28 June 2024.

On Thursday, 27 June, at 2:00 pm local time, RILM’s Executive Director Tina Frühauf will chair the RILM general information session titled “Africa in Focus”. Tina will be joined by Patricia Achieng Opondo (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa) and Suzanne Strauss (University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa) as speakers on the panel.   

RILM’s Commission Mixte will convene on Tuesday, 25 June, at 2:00 pm local time. 

On Wednesday, 26 June, at 11:00 am, Tina will chair the RILM Business Meeting for National Committees. That evening, RILM will host a reception for IAML attendees (open to all conference attendees, RSVP required).

Please feel free to find Tina and ask questions, provide feedback, or just say hello. You can find more details on this exciting event on the conference website, which also includes a link to a PDF with the preliminary conference schedule.

RILM will participate in this year’s meeting of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD) Performing Arts of Southeast Asia Study Group (Study Group-PASEA). The meeting will take place from 20 to 26 June 2024 in the city of Iloilo in the Philippines.

On Tuesday, 25 June at 2pm local time, RILM Editor for Southeast Asia Russ Skelchy will present a paper entitled “Locating the Ethnomusicological Field through Digital National Research Repository Systems” as part of the panel Archive and Modernities.

On the following day, 26 June 2024, Russ will address the PASEA business meeting to introduce RILM and its resources for Southeast Asian researchers and performers.

Please feel free to find Russ after his presentations to chat, ask questions, or give feedback. Also, be sure to stop by the RILM booth at the symposium to learn more about all of RILM’s resources. You can find out more on the conference website, which includes a preliminary schedule.

Looking forward to seeing you in Iloilo!