The World’s Writings on a World of Music

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The World’s Writings on a World of Music

Founded in 1966, the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) is a global organization dedicated to documenting and making accessible the world’s musical knowledge across all traditions. Through digital collections and advanced tools, RILM serves research and performance communities worldwide. It is committed to preserving music scholarship in all languages, spanning cultural and disciplinary boundaries within the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Accredited by UNESCO, RILM plays a key role in safeguarding global musical heritage. Its headquarters are located at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York.

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RAPMM: Zines on Scenes Rarely Seen

RAPMM is an international, full-text digital collection of independently released, hard-to-find magazines and fanzines issued from the 1960s to the present. Released with over 125 publications, and continuously growing, RAPMM covers a wide array of popular music topics in the realm of punk and other rock genres, indie, hip hop, and country. A truly multidisciplinary resource, RAPMM preserves interviews, band profiles, album reviews, and other content that trace relationships between music and social movements, fashion, art, and subcultures.

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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

1,767,044 Records

With Full Text

RILM Index to Scores and Collected Editions

592,520 records

RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines

RILM Music Encyclopedias

354,633 Entries

DEUMM Online

35,000+ Articles

MGG Online

20,000+ Articles

Book Publications

Hofmeister XIX

330,000 Records

RILM News

Forthcoming Additions to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text

This summer, RILM Abstracts with Full Text will add eleven more titles to its full-text journal collection. The new titles...

RILM at IASPM-US in Washington, D.C., 2026

RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM) Product Coordinator Lindsey Eckenroth will be in attendance at the conference of the...

RILM at MLA in Salt Lake City, 2026

RILM will participate in the 95th annual meeting of the Music Library Association (MLA), held in Salt Lake City, 25-28...

RILM Music Encyclopedias: New Additions for 2026

Three titles have just been added to RILM Music Encyclopedias, further enriching its collection of reference works from around the...

RILM at FAMI in New York, 2026

RILM will be in attendance at the Forging an American Musical Identity (FAMI) conference in New York, NY, 28–30 January...

RILM Acquires and Relaunches the Hofmeister XIX Database

New York, NY / London, UK – RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale), a global organization dedicated to documenting and...

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Bibliolore: The RILM Blog

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MGG Online: RILM as a service provider

MGG Online is a leading digital encyclopedia for music scholarship, widely used by researchers worldwide. The platform provides advanced search functi…

RILMiniscences

This post inaugurates “RILMiniscences,” a series in which long-time RILM staff members share their recollections. The first installment features r…

Covering the Cultural Heritage of Finland in RILM

International Peace Gardens in Jordan Park, Salt Lake City, Utah Situated about three miles away from the Hilton Salt Lake City Center, site of the…

An early RILM abstract card

In the early 1960s, Barry S. Brook created a standardized form that RILM’s New York offices used to collect abstracts. Printed on thin, color-coded…

Classification in RILM Abstracts

One of the initial challenges RILM faced in 1967 was developing a numbered classification system that would allow for a logical and effective organiza…

From the archives: RILM’s use of the IBM Selectric

While the production of RILM Abstracts has consistently depended on computing technology, the systems available in the 1960s and 1970s were unable to…

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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.

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