jump to navigation search r pertoire international de litt rature musicale industry indexing and abstracting service founded 1966 headquarters new york city new york united states key people barbara mackenzie editor in chief zdravko blazekovic executive editor website www.rilm.org r pertoire international de litt rature 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 . 1 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 . contents 1 history 2 organization 3 publications 3.1 online publications 3.2 print publications 3.3 pending products 4 see also 5 bibliography 6 references 7 external links history edit 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 r pertoire international de litt rature d art founded upon rilm s model which started publishing abstracts in 1975 . organization edit each of the three sponsoring societies nominates four members to the commission mixte international rilm s international governing board . the graduate center of the city university of new york provides an institutional context for rilm s international center . rilm s global network provides bibliographic citations and abstracts for items published in their respective countries to the international center where they are translated edited and indexed ; they are then added to the online database which is updated monthly . bibliographic information and abstracts as well as journals that have not yet been covered by rilm can also be submitted directly to the international center in new york . publications edit online publications edit the bibliography exists in a single database distributed as two products rilm abstracts of music literature and rilm abstracts of music literature 1967 present only . the full database presently contains over 860 409 entries for publications in 171 languages and from 174 countries . the earliest entry is of a festschrift from 1594 . rilm was issued in print from 1967 through 1999 and is currently available in a cumulative online database by subscription . print publications edit the printed version of rilm current was issued in print through 1999 . besides the printed rilm current volumes other printed publications include the rilm retrospectives series initiated in 1972 which includes printed thematic bibliographies of pre 1967 music literature ; the rilm perspectives series initiated in 2009 which includes papers presented at conferences sponsored by rilm ; and a style manual for writing about music is in its second edition . pending products edit this past year musik in geschichte und gegenwart and r pertoire international de litt rature musicale announced a joint project to bring the superlative german language music encyclopedia online . separate from mgg rilm will soon launch the encyclopedia full text collection with 40 seminal titles comprising over 66 000 pages and featuring entries in english german french italian dutch and greek . the titles span the years 1836 to 2014 and offer the comprehensive coverage of topics across the disciplines of historical musicology and ethnomusicology . the collection will continuously expand with additional titles that fit the needs of the musicological research community . see also edit state institute for music research bibliography edit brook barry s. some new paths for music bibliography computers in humanistic research readings and perspectives englewood cliffs prentice hall 1967 204 211 spivacke harold a new journal of abstracts for musicologists computers and the humanities 2 3 1968 120 needs page numbers brook barry s. music literature and modern communication some revolutionary potentials of the rilm project acta musicologica 42 3 4 1970 205 17 ; also published in journal of the indian musicological society ii 1 1971 9 19 . brook barry s. musikliteratur und moderne kommunikation zum projekt rilm beitr ge zur musikwissenschaft 13 1 1971 18 20 schi dt nanna rilm r pertoire international de litt rature musicale dansk musiktidsskrift 45 4 1970 168 173 brook barry s. the road to rilm modern music librarianship in honor of ruth watanabe ed . by alfred mann stuyvesant pendragon press ; kassel b renreiter verlag 1989 85 94 schuursma ann may briegleb summary report of activities iaml project group on classification and indexing fontes artis musicae 37 1 jan mar 1990 46 48 brook barry s. music literature and modern communication revolutionary potentials of the acls cuny rilm project college music symposium 40 2000 31 41 green alan the rilm project charting the seas of modern musicological literature college music symposium 40 2000 42 54 jenkins martin d. a descriptive study of subject indexing and abstracting in international index to music periodicals rilm abstracts of music literature and the music index online notes quarterly journal of the music library association 57 4 2001 834 863 blazekovic zdravko rilm abstracts of music literature in its global environment the past and vision for the future . references edit seaton douglass . on the importance of rilm to the discipline . cms forums . retrieved 28 february 2007 . external links edit rilm s website bibliolore the rilm blog retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title r pertoire international de litt rature musicale & oldid 741928000 categories music publications navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran aisitaliano edit links this page was last modified on 30 september 2016 at 15 17 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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