Fact Sheet RILM Abstracts of Music Literature  

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Full-Text links to Music Periodicals
Available Formats: BiblioLine Number of Records: 440,251
Dates of Coverage: 1967 to present Update Frequency: Monthly
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 The premier index to music literature!
Over 35 years of coverage.
Over 423,100 citations & abstracts.

Compiled by the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1967-present) is the world's largest, continuously updated bibliography of music literature providing broad international coverage including records in over 100 languages from thousands of journals, books, dissertations, conference proceedings, Festschriften, and more. There is no better single source for exploring the world of music, from Western and Eastern classical to pop, folk, and jazz.
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  • Flexible searching through powerful indexing -- search authors or just authors of reviews.  Search any one or combination of 18 different search indexes to refine search results.
  • Efficient searching with the convenience of all related data compiled into one record.

52,000+ Reviews are appended directly to the records for the publications reviewed.
45,000+ Citations to papers presented at conferences are appended to the main records of proceedings.
174,900+ Similar compilations have been made with other publication types

  • Automatic searching of international variant spellings, compound words and singular-plural word forms.
  • Detailed cross-references are displayed with search results to guide users to related terms.
  • Automated searching using the RILM Thesaurus, a complete list of over 2,500 terms.
  • Clickable URL addresses for internet browsing.
Database Content
Nearly 440,251 abstracts and citations, written and edited by an international staff of music professionals,  are drawn from articles, books, conference proceedings, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, festchriften, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings and videos, reviews and more. Sponsored by the International Musicological Society and the International Association of Music Libraries, RILM Abstracts documents the music scholarship of more than 100 countries with submissions from over 50 international RILM Committees.

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RILM also indexes interdisciplinary studies on music and
  • literature
  • dramatic arts
  • visual & plastic arts
  • acoustics & physics
  • sociology & anthropology
  • linguistic & semiotics
  • mathematics
  • philosophy
  • physiology
  • psychology
Subject Coverage
  • musicology & ethnomusicology
  • theory, analysis & composition
  • instruments & voice
  • performance practice & notation
  • librarianship
  • pedagogy
  • liturgy
  • dance
  • aesthetics
  • criticism
  • music therapy
  • iconography
  • historical musicology
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Full-Text links to Music Periodicals

Publications

ISSN

TYPE

Links

Muzsika

0027-5336

Journal

127

Music Theory Online

1067-3040

Journal

109

TRANS: Transcultural Music Review/Revista Transcultural de Musica

   

52

GEMA News

   

41

MikroPolyphonie

1327-256X

Journal

40

Music & Anthropology: Journal of Musical Anthropology of the Mediterranean

 

Journal

31

GEMA Nachrichten

   

31

Finnish Music Quarterly

0782-1069

Journal

28

De Musica: Annuario in Divenire

   

23

Polish Music Journal

1521-6039

Journal

22

Népszabadság

0133-1752

Newspaper

21

Essays in Sound

 

Academic / Scholarly Publication

18

Kurt Weill Newsletter

0899-6407

Newsletter

18

Institute for Studies in American Music. Newsletter

0145-8396

Newsletter

18

Frankfurter Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft

1438-857X

Journal

17

Revista Eletrônica de Musicologia

1415-9538

Journal

16

Strings

0888-3106

Consumer Publication

16

OPUS: Revista da Associaçao Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduaçao em Música (ANPPOM)

1517-7017

Journal

15

EOL: Ethnomusicology Online--Peer-reviewed Multimedia Web Journal

 

Journal

15

Analitica: Online Journal of Musical Studies

   

14

Circuit: Musiques contemporaines

   

14

Electronic Musicological Review

 

Magazine

13

Journal of Seventeenth - Century Music

1089-747X

Academic / Scholarly Publication

12

Narodna Umjetnost

0547-2504

Academic / Scholarly Publication

11

Echo: A Music-Centered Journal

1535-1807

Journal

11

WAM: Webzin o Audiju i Muzici

1332-0181

Magazine

11

Urucungo

   

11




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