RILM at ADUIM in Bologna, 2024
RILM will participate in the 30th annual conference of the Associazione fra i Docenti Universitari I…
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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…
RILM Launches DEUMM Online
RILM will officially release DEUMM Online on Wednesday, 30 October 2024, at 7:30 pm CET / 2:30 pm ES…
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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…
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…
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,…
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…
North Korean pop, dictator celebrity, and the "big family"
After more than a decade of silence, the South Korean Ministry of Defense resumed its propaganda broadcasts into North Korea in August 2015. Although…
Adaptive digital instruments and disability
The creation, distribution, and deployment of the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI) software represents a project that redefines our understandin…
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.