The World's Writings on a World of Music

Learn More
1,677,666 Records
353,629 Entries
20,000 + Articles
586,832 records

RILM News

RILM at ICTMD in Wellington, 2025
RILM will participate in the 48th world conference of the International Council for Traditions of Mu…
RILM at ADUIM in Bologna, 2024
RILM will participate in the 30th annual conference of the Associazione fra i Docenti Universitari I…
Presentation of DEUMM Online in Turin, Italy
On Tuesday, 19 November 2024, at 4:30 pm CET / 10:30 am EST an event dedicated to the release of DEU…
Presentation of DEUMM Online in Milan, Italy
On 21 November 2024, at 4:00. pm CET / 10:00 EST, in collaboration with sponsors Archivio Storico Ri…
RILM at AMS in Chicago, 2024
RILM will participate in the annual conference of the American Musicological Society (AMS), held in…
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…
More news

Bibliolore: The RILM Blog

1,687 posts 868,655 views
Featured image for post 'Dolly Parton, from country and pop to film
Dolly Parton, from country and pop to film
The country singer, songwriter, actor, and businesswoman Dolly Parton was the fourth of twelve children in a family of sharecroppers in Sevierville, T…
Featured image for post 'Anna Moffo, the versatile soprano
Anna Moffo, the versatile soprano
Born in Wayne, Pennsylvania to an Italian American couple in 1932, the opera singer Anna Moffo began her formal music studies at the Curtis Institute…
Featured image for post 'Zakir Hussain, tablā virtuoso and world music  pioneer
Zakir Hussain, tablā virtuoso and world music pioneer
The emergence of the tablā as a solo instrument in the late 20th century, along with the shift from performances for musicians to those for non-music…
Featured image for post 'Arabic language and music of the Middle East
Arabic language and music of the Middle East
Today, 18 December, marks UNESCO’s World Arabic Language Day, commemorating the date in 1973 when the United Nations General Assembly recognized Ara…
Featured image for post 'The sonic weaponization of Saydnaya prison
The sonic weaponization of Saydnaya prison
The complex intersections of carceral violence and acoustics are particularly evident in the case of Saydnaya, the infamous military prison in Syria,…
Featured image for post 'Benny Golson, jazz composer and saxophonist
Benny Golson, jazz composer and saxophonist
One of Benny Golson’s earliest memories as a child was being taken to Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem, a now-legendary site of the earliest bop jam s…
More from Bibliolore

About Us

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.