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Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) documents and disseminates music research

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🏺The Iraqi maqām: A musical tradition worth preserving. UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage...
05/14/2026

🏺The Iraqi maqām: A musical tradition worth preserving.

UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity includes performing arts that have contributed to a nation's cultural identity and history. Bibliolore's most recent post--the first in a series that features musical practices inscribed in UNESCO's list--provides an annotated bibliography on the Iraqi maqām. May its content serve to document and build awareness of this important element of Iraqi cultural heritage currently at risk of fading away.

Read about it in Bibliolore: https://bibliolore.org/2026/05/14/the-iraqi-maqam-an-intangible-cultural-heritage-at-risk/

Take Note(s): Eleven new journals are headed your way! 🎵📝This summer, RILM Abstracts with Full Text will welcome the fol...
05/07/2026

Take Note(s): Eleven new journals are headed your way! 🎵📝

This summer, RILM Abstracts with Full Text will welcome the following new titles, putting the digital collection to over 300:
▫️ Eisenstädter Haydn-Berichte. Wien: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, 2002–. ISSN 2616-8979
▫️ Jahrbuch für Liturgik und Hymnologie. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1955–. ISSN 0075-2681
▫️ Journal of music theory and transcultural music studies. Isparta: Genç Bilge Yayıncılık, 2023–. ISSN 3023-7335
▫️ Liszt journal: Jahrbuch der Liszt Akademie Raiding. Wien: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, 2024–. ISSN 3061-0451
▫️ Lucrări de muzicologie/Musicology papers. Cluj-Napoca: Conservatorul de Muzică G. Dima, 2009–. ISSN 1222-894X/2068-8601 and eISSN 1222-894X/2285-0031
▫️ Meshk journal of religious music. Istanbul: Istanbul University Press/İstanbul Üniversitesi Yayinlari, 2024–. eISSN 3062-0430
▫️ Music cognition. Cluj-Napoca: MediaMusica, 2017–. ISSN 2601-3193 and eISSN 2601-3207
▫️ Newsletter of the Dvořák Society for Czech and Slovak Music. Newcastle-under-Lyme: Dvořák Society for Czech and Slovak Music, 1988–. ISSN 0000-0000
▫️ Notes: Quarterly journal of the Music Library Association. Middleton: Music Library Association, 1934–. ISSN 0027-4380 and eISSN 1534-150X
▫️ 音楽教育学 [Ongaku kyōikugaku]. Koganei: Nihon Ongaku Kyōiku Gakkai/The Japan Music Education Society, 1971–. ISSN 0289-6907
▫️ Senfl-Studien. Wien: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, 2012–18. ISSN 2716-2534

And take further note of Eisenstädter Haydn-Berichte; Liszt journal: Jahrbuch der Liszt Akademie Raiding; Senfl-Studien; and 音楽教育学 [Ongaku kyōikugaku]--available in a digital format only in RAFT.

👉 To learn more about all the international, multilingual, multidisciplinary content you'll find in RILM Abstracts with Full Text, head to:
🔗 https://www.rilm.org/abstracts/

Liz and Jackie are ready to go at ARLIS/NA! 👋Stop by our exhibition table to learn more about what we do and all the ben...
05/04/2026

Liz and Jackie are ready to go at ARLIS/NA! 👋

Stop by our exhibition table to learn more about what we do and all the benefits we bring to research on music and related arts, the humanities, and beyond. And mark your calendars for tomorrow's panel (3:15pm local time) A Culture of Resistance: Libraries, Archives, and the Impact of Culture on Collecting (and Collecting on Culture), during which Liz and Jackie will discuss aspects of the content and creation of RILM's newest product, RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM). See you there!

And for more details, head to our news section on rilm.org:
https://www.rilm.org/news/2026/04/10783/

We're packing our bags for Canada! 🇨🇦RILM's Liz Martin-Ruiz and Jackie Santos are headed to this year's meeting of the A...
05/01/2026

We're packing our bags for Canada! 🇨🇦

RILM's Liz Martin-Ruiz and Jackie Santos are headed to this year's meeting of the Art Libraries Society of North America in Montréal.

On Tuesday, May 5, catch them back-to-back on the panel: A Culture of Resistance: Libraries, Archives, and the Impact of Culture on Collecting (and Collecting on Culture).

📌 3:15pm local time--Liz presents “Building a global digital archive for popular music and culture zines”, which dissects the creation process of RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM).
📌 3:30pm local time--Jackie presents “Punk rock & resistance: Documenting decades of defiance in an international zine archive”, which examines themes within RAPMM.

See you soon!

For more details, head to our news page:
👉 https://www.rilm.org/news/2026/04/10783/

For more information on the RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM), the subject of the two talks, head to rilm.org:
🎸 https://www.rilm.org/rapmm/

MGG Online celebrates International Jazz Day 2026 🎺Fifteen years ago, in 2011, UNESCO officially designated 30 April as ...
04/29/2026

MGG Online celebrates International Jazz Day 2026 🎺

Fifteen years ago, in 2011, UNESCO officially designated 30 April as International Jazz Day. This global initiative brings together communities, schools, artists, historians, academics, and jazz enthusiasts to celebrate the art form while promoting intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding.

MGG Online offers a rich and expansive resource for learning about this international genre. At the core is its landmark 2021 entry on jazz, which explores key terminology, traces its precursors, and surveys early styles—from New Orleans style to swing—as well as modern developments from bebop onward. MGG Online also covers the history of jazz reception and the academic discipline of jazz studies—alongside offering a wide range of geographical and biographical entries.

Click here to get started: https://www.mgg-online.com/mgg/stable/400971



American jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player, and composer Roy Hargrove (1969–2018) at Queens Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2009. Photo: © Heritage Images / Alan John Ainsworth / akg-images

Over 60 titles in RILM Music Encyclopedias for RILM's 60 years. 6️⃣🥳 It might be a coincidence. But what's undeniably in...
04/29/2026

Over 60 titles in RILM Music Encyclopedias for RILM's 60 years. 6️⃣🥳

It might be a coincidence. But what's undeniably intentional is RILM's dedication to providing premium, international, full-text content tailored specifically to the needs of researchers, teachers, and anyone interested in musical and cultural knowledge.

Bibliolore's latest shines a light on the one and only constantly growing, multilingual, fully searchable collections of national, subject-specific, and historical reference texts. Happy reading!

👉 https://bibliolore.org/2026/04/28/rilm-music-encyclopedias-service-and-preservation/

Because some posts were too fun to write to let drift away forever...🔂We've decided to revive some of our older posts or...
04/24/2026

Because some posts were too fun to write to let drift away forever...🔂

We've decided to revive some of our older posts originally published by our partners EBSCO on their blog, EBSCOpost. First up is one about helicopters by Jim Cowdery, the subject of our first RILMinisences Bibliolore series and the one responsible for so many great posts during his time at RILM.

Many thanks to Jim and EBSCO, and happy reading!

🔗 See if you can find all nine music-related articles with references to helicopters in RILM Music Encyclopedias:
👉 https://www.rilm.org/encyclopedias/

Knowing which information is trustworthy isn't always easy. But knowing where to find trustworthy information is.As a fu...
04/22/2026

Knowing which information is trustworthy isn't always easy. But knowing where to find trustworthy information is.

As a fully-networked, continuously updated Italian knowledge base with a distinctly global perspective on music, DEUMM Online is not your everyday digital encyclopedia.

Continuing to celebrate 60 years of RILM, Biblilore takes a moment to focus on one of RILM's newest products, and the one that made RILM a content provider. DEUMM Online expands and updates Alberto Basso’s Dizionario enciclopedico universale della musica e dei musicisti, providing a research experience that draws from the knowledge of specialists worldwide.

🔗 Head over to Bibliolore for more:
👉 https://bibliolore.org/2026/04/21/deumm-online-rilm-as-a-content-provider/

2026: a year we can celebrate two anniversaries at once. 🎉Of course, RILM has just turned 60, but this year we also cele...
04/15/2026

2026: a year we can celebrate two anniversaries at once. 🎉

Of course, RILM has just turned 60, but this year we also celebrate ten years of providing a digital platform for the world's most trusted digital encyclopedia for music and music-related scholarship. Hosting MGG Online on Egret for the last decade has been an incredible experience, one made better by having such tenacious and knowledgeable partners in Bärenreiter-Verlag and J.B. Metzler.

Here's to all we've accomplished together to make such important content accessible to a global audience. We can't wait to see what's in store for the decades to come as we raise the authoritative standards for a digital encyclopedia.

🔗 Read all about it in Bibliolore's latest:
👉 https://bibliolore.org/2026/04/14/mgg-online-rilm-as-a-service-provider/

MGG Online celebrates World Art Day 2026: Music and visual arts 🎨MGG Online’s classic article on music and the visual ar...
04/10/2026

MGG Online celebrates World Art Day 2026: Music and visual arts 🎨

MGG Online’s classic article on music and the visual arts explores a wide range of themes, from music inspired by images and the visual dimensions of musical notation to musicians as visual artists, the impact of music on visual art, and even the composer as an artistic subject.

Click here for more details: https://www.mgg-online.com/mgg/stable/533521

World Art Day—celebrating the development, sharing, and enjoyment of art—is observed annually on 15 April.



Paul Klee: Fuge in Rot (1921), watercolor on paper, mounted on board; private collection, Switzerland

Revisiting old friends, colleagues, and times reminds us of how far we've come over the last 60 years. Bibliolore open...
04/08/2026

Revisiting old friends, colleagues, and times reminds us of how far we've come over the last 60 years.

Bibliolore opens its series sharing the recollections of long-time RILM staff members with former editor Jim Cowdery. Arriving at RILM in the so-called "class of '98"—the only time in RILM's history when five editors were hired simultaneously—Jim brought expertise in topics surrounding ethnomusicology (among other disciplines), a keen editorial eye (which he applied to earlier editions of RILM's How to write about music), and an incredibly warm heart.

It's hard to imagine where we would be without Jim, and he has been greatly missed in the time since his retirement. We continue to benefit from his tenure and send endless thanks for all he's done.

🔗 Read more in Bibliolore's latest:
👉 https://bibliolore.org/2026/04/07/rilminiscences/

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