Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale

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Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale

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legal form nonprofit organization
founding 1966
Seat New York City , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
management Barbara Mackenzie, Editor-in-Chief / President
Number of employees 40+
Branch Specialized bibliographies for musicological literature
Website rilm.org

Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (International Repertory of Music Literature; Internationales Repertorium der Musikliteratur), commonly known by the acronym RILM , is a non-profit organization that offers digital collections and tools for researching all topics related to music. Its mission is to make this knowledge accessible to researchers and musicians worldwide - including musicology from all countries, in all languages, across all disciplines and cultural boundaries - and thus to promote research in the arts, humanities, natural and social sciences . The focus of the work and mission of RILM is the international bibliography of science with all facets of music research.

history

RILM was founded in 1966 by the American musicologist Barry S. Brook under the joint sponsorship of the International Musicological Society (IMS) and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centers (IAML). In 2007 the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) joined as the third organization.

In 1967 and 1968 RILM developed its first computer programs for the automated processing and sorting of bibliographic data records and author / subject registers. These first ran on the IBM System / 360 mainframe computer in the computer center of the City University of New York . The original IBM S / 360 software was later carried over to the IBM System / 370 and used from 1969 to 1988 for the production of RILM Abstracts of Music Literature . RILM's development of methods for computer-aided data processing was taken over by RILA (Répertoire International de Littérature d'Art) and was based on the RILM model, which began in 1975 with the publication of abstracts.

In 1979, RILM entered into an agreement with the Lockheed Research Laboratory in Palo Alto , a division of the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, to distribute data over telephone lines. This was later transferred to DIALOG Information Retrieval Services . Although available online before the advent of the Internet, until the end of the 20th century, printed volumes were the primary medium for distributing RILM's bibliographic records.

As of 1993, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature was no longer available through the DIALOG Information Retrieval Service , but in 1989 the National Information Service Corporation (NISC) of Baltimore published them on CD-ROM. In the 1990s, RILM Abstracts became available online through the NISC Muse (1993-2010), OCLC First Search (1994-2010), Ovid / SilverPlatter (2002-2010) and Cambridge Scientific Abstracts / ProQuest (2002-2010) platforms. RILM databases are currently available through EBSCO Information Services .

The first editorial office of RILM was at Queens College, City University of New York (1967-1968). The CUNY Graduate Center has provided an institutional framework for the RILM International Center since 1968.

The organization

RILM employs over 40 people: editors, technicians and clerks. It is led by an advisory board and the Commission Mixte International, which consists of members of the International Musicological Society (IMS), the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centers (IAML) and the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM). The second report by Barry Brook, which appeared in the March 1968 issue of Notes , vividly describes Commission Mixte's deliberations on defining RILM's policies and procedures.

Online publications

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature contains important international musicological works, published in print and digital media and in every language. It consists of bibliographic information on articles, monographs and collections of essays, bibliographies, catalogs, master's theses and dissertations, commemorative publications , films, videos, technical drawings of instruments, facsimile editions, iconographies , comments on critical musical editions, ethnographic recordings, conference reports, reviews, web resources as well as over 3500 magazines that are interlinked with Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale . RILM Abstracts differs from other music magazine directories in that it covers books, as well as abstracts, keywording and a broad international, yet selective selection. Each entry contains the title in the original language, an English translation of the title, full bibliographical information and a summary with a detailed index. All of this contributes to conveying the identity of the data set (reinforced online by the relevance-oriented presentation of the search results). Many of the non-English entries also contain a summary in the language of the publication.

Following the example of UNESCO , RILM Abstracts was conceived as a cooperation between national committees, which are responsible for the publication of bibliographical information as well as abstracts for the publications published in their respective countries. Today, the committees contribute around 15,000 records a year, which are processed in the International Office in New York, indexed and entered into the online database. The editors of the International Office create a further 35,000 data records per year. Bibliographic information and abstracts as well as journals not yet covered by RILM can also be submitted directly to the International Center in New York.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature was the first bibliography of abstracts in the humanities and was declared a pilot project by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to develop a computerized, bibliographic system in the humanities to serve the more than 30 scientific societies of the ACLS Model to serve. When RILM Abstracts only appeared in print, its thesaurus and its name equivalences, which lead to the searched terms, were translated into 17 languages ​​and integrated alphabetically into the index. This practice enabled users to find the desired English-language term or spelling of a name in the familiar language. RILM Abstracts gradually expanded the multilingualism and the database now contains not only the usual English abstracts but also summaries in the language of the publication and, if available, in other languages. At the beginning of the 21st century, RILM Abstracts began to increasingly include publications from Asia, especially scientific articles from Chinese journals. At the same time, all elements of the bibliographical data records for publications that were published in non-Romance writing systems were offered in two languages.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature appeared in print three times a year from 1967 to 1983, with annual index volumes and cumulative indexes every five years; from 1984 to 1999 in annual volumes with corresponding registers; and since 2000 exclusively online and today exclusively through EBSCO host .

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text

In July 2016, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature was expanded to include full-text music magazines. RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text (RAFT) provides access to 240 music magazines from 50 countries. Coverage also includes reviews, as well as obituaries, editorials, correspondence, advertisements, and news published from the early twentieth century to the present. In addition to metadata, abstracts and keywording, RAFT offers search and browsing tools for every issue in full text, from the first to the last issue. The database is updated monthly. Details on the current status of the titles can be viewed at rilm.org/fulltext. New titles will be added over time.

RILM Music Encyclopedias

In December 2015, RILM Music Encyclopedias (RME) was released with 41 titles. This full-text collection contains reference works in many different languages ​​(approx. 35 percent of the titles are in German), from various countries and offers a common search for all titles. Laurie Sampsel describes how full-text search across titles produces results that would be impossible (or highly improbable) to find in the print versions of these encyclopedias. And Stephen Henry says that the RME provides access to some excellent European resources that are often not available to libraries with limited collections.

RME's titles come from different epochs and countries: The earliest work, Jean Jacques Rousseau's Dictionnaire de musique , was published in 1775. There is also the first edition of the Grove in the 1895 edition of Theodore Presser. Most of the titles are from the early 2000s. These include Ken Blooms Broadway , Lol Henderson and Lee Staceys Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century , Peter Matzke et al., Das Gothic- und Dark Wave-Lexikon and Richard Kostelanetz's Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes . The comprehensive concise dictionary of musical terminology conceived between 1972 and 2006 is also included. RME collects important titles for ethnomusicologists, including The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music and Eileen Southern's Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians - the first comprehensive volume of its kind. The collection of encyclopedias is expanded by an average of four titles each year. Contemporary Composers (KDG) is regularly updated with new articles or additions to existing articles. All titles are listed at rilm.org/encyclopedias.

Index to Printed Music

On July 1, 2018, RILM took over the Index to Printed Music (IPM). It was previously owned by the James Adrian Music Company , founded in 2000 by George R. Hill.

IPM is the only digital aid for finding musical works in printed collections, series and series. It opens up individual pieces of music that are printed in complete editions, anthologies with works from various epochs and in other academic editions. It provides detailed information on each piece, including the line-up, language, incipit, clef, and figured bass. IPM comprises the complete contents of George R. Hill and Norris L. Stephens Volume Collected Editions, Historical Series & Sets & Monuments of Music: A Bibliography (Berkeley: Fallen Leaf Press, 1997), which in turn is based on Anna H. Heyers Historical Sets, Collected Editions, and Monuments of Music: A Guide to Their Contents (American Library Association, 1957–1980).

Since 2019, IPM offers new features, including biographical information to identify composers, editors and lyricists; Hyperlinks to open access editions; Incipits for works that are otherwise difficult to distinguish; simply jumping back and forth between collections and the individual works they contain; as well as search filters for fine-tuning by location and date of publication, document type, genre and text language.

Bibliolore

RILM hosts the Bibliolore blog , the posts of which are directly related to content from RILM Abstracts of Music Literature , RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text and RILM Music Encyclopedias , MGG Online and the Index to Printed Music . New articles appear every week, many of which revolve around musicians' birthdays and other anniversaries. Since its inception in 2009, Bibliolore has published over 1,300 articles and has been visited over 500,000 times.

Publications in print

Between 1967 and 1999, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature was published in print, initially quarterly and later annually. The last print edition appeared in 1999, which is the largest with 19,619 data records.

Since 1972 RILM has published volumes in the RILM Retrospectives series. These current bibliographies began with the first edition of Barry S. Brooks Thematic Catalogs in Music: An Annotated Bibliography . The most recent volumes in the series include Speaking of Music: Music Conferences 1835–1966 (2004), an annotated bibliography of 5948 contributions on musical topics presented at 447 conferences. The volume builds on the more recent efforts, but at the same time remains true to Brook's original vision and expands it: It encompasses more than 130 years of reports from conferences worldwide, with a focus on Western Europe. The following volume, Liber Amicorum: Festschriften for Music Scholars and Nonmusicians, 1840–1966 (2009), is an annotated bibliography with 574 Festschriften, cataloged on a total of 118 pages with 715 entries. The next part of the volume documents on 355 pages and 3881 entries all of the musical articles in the Festschriften, which are preceded by an introductory history of the Festschriften. All volumes are devoted to research materials that came out prior to the publication of the first volume of RILM Abstracts in 1967.

The RILM Perspectives series explores issues related to RILM's global mission. The first volume, Music's Intellectual History: Founders, Followers & Fads (2009), is based on papers presented at the Conference on the History of Music Historiography, which took place March 16-19, 2005 at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

RILM has published two editions of the comprehensive How to Write About Music: The RILM Manual of Style . The second edition has been revised and expanded, u. a. with materials based on suggestions from readers. The style guide differs significantly from the general guidelines of the Music Library Association MLA or APA, especially in the areas of gender-neutral language, dead language and punctuation and is always related to music topics. It is particularly aimed at students.

The RILM platform

RILM has developed its own platform with search and browsing options for music reference works. The first work that could be accessed was the German-language lead music encyclopedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG). MGG Online is based on the second edition of MGG , but contains continuous updates, revisions and additions. The platform allows the user to access previous versions of revised articles. It enables automatic translation into over 100 languages ​​via an integrated Google Translate function; User accounts where annotations and notes can be created, saved and shared; Cross-references to related content; Links to related content, etc. a. to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature as well as an interface compatible with mobile devices and tablets. The search function is said to be powerful but easy to use, with various options to narrow down the search results. Specific search results can be viewed in a preview area. The platform is currently being further developed for the exchange of knowledge.

literature

  • Pauline Shaw Bayne: A Guide to Library Research in Music . Scarecrow Press, Lanham MD 2008.
  • Zdravko Blažeković: RILM Abstracts of Music Literature in its Global Environment: The Past and Vision for the Future (Lecture, 2014).
  • Barry S. Brook: Music Literature and Modern Communication: Revolutionary Potentials of the ACLS / CUNY / RILM project . In: College Music Symposium , 40, 2000, pp. 31-41
  • Barry S. Brook: Music Literature and Modern Communication: Some Revolutionary Potentials of the RILM Project . In: Acta Musicologica , 42, No. 3-4, 1970, pp. 205-217; see also Journal of the Indian Musicological Society , 2, No. 1, 1971, pp. 9-19.
  • Barry S. Brook: Music literature and modern communication: About the RILM project . In: Contributions to Musicology , 13, No. 1, pp. 18-20, 1971
  • Barry S. Brook: Some New Paths for Music Bibliography . In: Computers in Humanistic Research: Readings and Perspectives . Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs 1967, pp. 204-211
  • Barry S. Brook: The Road to RILM . In: Alfred Mann (Ed.): Modern Music Librarianship: In Honor of Ruth Watanabe . Pendragon Press, Stuyvesant; Bärenreiter Verlag Kassel, 1989, pp. 85-94
  • Susannah Cleveland, Joe C. Clark (Eds.): Careers in Music Librarianship III: Reality and Reinvention . AR Editions, Milwaukee 2014.
  • Jane Gottlieb: Music Library and Research Skills . 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, New York 2017.
  • Alan Green: Keeping up with the Times: Evaluating Currency of Indexing, Language Coverage and Subject Area Coverage in the Three Music Periodical Index Databases . In: Music Reference Services Quarterly , 8, No. 1, January 2001, pp. 53-68
  • Alan Green: The RILM Project: Charting the Seas of Modern Literature Musicological, . In: College Music Symposium , January 40, 2000, pp. 42-54
  • Martin D. Jenkins: A Descriptive Study of Subject Indexing and Abstracting in International Index to Music Periodicals, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, and The Music Index Online . In: Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association , 57, No. 4, 2001, pp. 834-863
  • Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie: RILM at 40: A View from the Bridge . In: Fontes Artis Musicae , 54, No. 4, 2007, pp. 421-439
  • Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie: RILM as a Starting Point for Research . In: Ictus: Periódico Do Programa de Pós-Graduação Em Música Da UFBA , 9, No. 2, 2008, pp. 48–58
  • Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie: Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM): Immutable Mission amidst Continual Change . In: Music, Libraries, and the Academy: Essays in Honor of Lenore Coral . AR Editions, Middleton WI 2007, pp. 129-142.
  • Nanna, Schiødt: RILM: Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale . In: Dansk musiktidsskrift , 45, No. 4, pp. 168-173, 1970
  • Ann Briegleb Schuursma: Summary Report of activities IAML Project Group on Classification and Indexing . In: Fontes Artis Musicae , 37, No. 1, 1990, pp. 46-48
  • Harold Spivacke: A New Journal of Abstracts for Musicologists . In: Computers and the Humanities , 2, No. 3, 1968, pp. 120-124

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Douglass Seaton: On the Importance of RILM to the Discipline - College Music Symposium. Retrieved July 18, 2019 (UK English).
  2. ↑ RILM Mission. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Barry S. Brook: RILM: Repertoire International de la Litterature Musicale - International Repertory of Music Literature - International Repertory of Music Literature, Inaugural Report: January 1967 . In: Notes . tape 23 , no. 3 , March 1967, ISSN  0027-4380 , p. 462 , doi : 10.2307 / 895074 .
  4. ↑ Since the founding of RILM, the editors-in-chief have written summaries of the annual activities that give an overview of the company's history and development; see http://www.rilm.org/aboutUs/reports.php
  5. ↑ The program was developed in Fortran by Solomon D. Gongola, James E. Korenthal and Jonathan L. Martz under the direction of Laurence H. Heimrath. Documentation was later prepared by Philip J. Drummond and published as the Reference Manual for the RILM Automated Bibliographic System, including a User Guide, Reference Information and Program Listings . 4 volumes. Répertoire International de Littérature International, New York 1976.
  6. ↑ Barry S. Brook: RILM: Repertoire International de la Litterature Musicale - Repertory of Music Literature - Internationales Repertorium der Musikliteratur: Report No. 2: September 1967 . In: Notes . tape 24 , no. 3 , March 1968, ISSN  0027-4380 , p. 457 , doi : 10.2307 / 893915 .
  7. ^ Raymond Ericson: Who's Writing about Music and Where . In: The New York Times , November 5, 1967.
  8. ^ Alan Green: Keeping Up with the Times . In: Music Reference Services Quarterly . tape 8 , no. 1 , January 2001, ISSN  1058-8167 , p. 53-68 , doi : 10.1300 / j116v08n01_04 .
  9. ↑ Jane Gottlieb: Music Library and Research Skills . 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, New York 2017, p. 47.
  10. ↑ For a detailed overview of dissertations in RILM abstracts, see Jane Gottlieb: Music Library and Research Skills . 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, New York 2017, pp. 49-50.
  11. ^ Kirstin Dougan: Dissertations in the Electronic Age: Tapping into Emerging Musicology Research . In: Music Reference Services Quarterly . tape 14 , no. 3 , July 2011, ISSN  1058-8167 , p. 109–130 , doi : 10.1080 / 10588167.2011.596094 .
  12. ↑ For the journal coverage in RILM Abstracts see Leslie Anne Troutman: Comprehensiveness of Indexing in Three Music Periodical Databases . In: Music Reference Services Quarterly , 8, no. 1, January 2001, pp. 39-51. Alan Green: The RILM Project: Charting the Seas of Modern Musicological Literature . In: College Music Symposium , January 40, 2000, p. 51.
  13. ↑ Jane Gottlieb: Music Library and Research Skills . 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, New York 2017, p. 157.
  14. ↑ Martin Jenkins: A Descriptive Study of Subject Indexing and Abstracting in International Index of Music Periodicals, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, and The Music Index Online . In: Notes . tape 57 , no. 4 , 2001, ISSN  1534-150X , p. 834-863 , doi : 10.1353 / not.2001.0092 .
  15. ^ Barry S. Brook: Music Literature and Modern Communication. Some Revolutionary Potentials of the RILM Project . In: Acta Musicologica . tape 42 , no. 3/4 , July 1970, ISSN  0001-6241 , p. 205 , doi : 10.2307 / 932196 .
  16. ↑ Michelle Hahn: As Advertised: A Preliminary Look at Compiling and Comparing Title Lists from Music Article Indexes . In: Music Reference Services Quarterly . tape 11 , no. 1 , August 2008, ISSN  1058-8167 , p. 33-36 , doi : 10.1080 / 10588160802157157 .
  17. ↑ EBSCO Expands Music Research Resources. Information Today, July 14, 2016, accessed July 18, 2019 .
  18. ^ Library Technology News Service. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
  19. ↑ RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text ™ Now Available from EBSCO Information Services. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
  20. ↑ RILM: Abstracts of Music Literature . In: Choice Reviews Online . tape 48 , no. 06 , February 1, 2011, ISSN  0009-4978 , p. 48–3026–48–3026 , doi : 10.5860 / choice.48-3026 .
  21. ↑ Jane Gottlieb, Music Library and Research Skills , 2nd Edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).
  22. ↑ a b c d e Laurie J. Sampsel: RILM Music Encyclopedias . In: Nineteenth-Century Music Review . tape 15 , no. 1 , November 9, 2017, ISSN  1479-4098 , p. 149-159 , doi : 10.1017 / s147940981700060x .
  23. ^ Sandra Tuppen, Stephen Rose, Loukia Drosopoulou: Library Catalog Records as a Research Resource: Introducing 'A Big Data History of Music' . In: Fontes Artis Musicae . tape 63 , no. 2 , 2016, ISSN  2471-156X , p. 67-88 , doi : 10.1353 / fam.2016.0011 .
  24. ↑ Markus Bandure: Musical knowledge and its history as a lexicographical challenge: The concise dictionary of musical terminology . In: Fontes Artis Musicae . tape 63 , no. 3 , 2016, ISSN  2471-156X , p. 180 , doi : 10.1353 / fam.2016.0013 .
  25. ^ Tina Frühauf: Reports . (PDF) In: Bulletin of the ICTM , 130, January 2016, pp. 34–35.
  26. ↑ Laurie J. Sampsel: RILM Music Encyclopedias . In: Nineteenth-Century Music Review . tape 15 , no. 1 , November 9, 2017, ISSN  1479-4098 , p. 149-159 , doi : 10.1017 / s147940981700060x .
  27. ↑ Hanns-Werner Heister: Paper is Patient: The Loose-Leaf Lexicon Composers of the Present and the Digital Future . In: Fontes Artis Musicae 63, no.3 (2016), p. 209.
  28. ^ Jean Harden: Index to Printed Music (IPM): Collections & Series (review) . In: Notes . tape 67 , no. 4 , 2011, ISSN  1534-150X , p. 793–798 , doi : 10.1353 / not.2011.0068 .
  29. ^ Pamela E. Pagels: Index to Printed Music (IPM) . In: Music Reference Services Quarterly . tape 16 , no. 4 , October 2013, ISSN  1058-8167 , p. 243-248 , doi : 10.1080 / 10588167.2013.841416 .
  30. ^ Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie: Bibliolore . In: IMS Newsletter , 6, No. 1, 2019, p. 14.
  31. ^ Barry S. Brooks: Thematic Catalogs in Music: An Annotated Bibliography . Pendragon Press, Stuyvesant NY 1972.
  32. ↑ Jane Gottlieb, Music Library and Research Skills . 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, New York 2017, p. 48.
  33. ^ Mark McKnight: Speaking of Music: Music Conferences, 1835-1966 (review) . In: Notes . tape 62 , no. 1 , 2005, ISSN  1534-150X , p. 106-107 , doi : 10.1353 / not.2005.0089 .
  34. ↑ Allen Scott: Liber Amicorum: Festschriften for Music Scholars and Nonmusicians, 1840-1966 (review) . In: Notes . tape 67 , no. 1 , 2010, ISSN  1534-150X , p. 136-138 , doi : 10.1353 / not.2010.0017 .
  35. ^ Pauline Shaw Bayne: A Guide to Library Research in Music . Scarecrow Press, Lanham MD 2008, p. 58.
  36. ↑ Laurel Tarulli: Review of How to Write About Music: The RILM Manual of Style . In: Fontes Artis Musicae , 55, No. 2, April 2008, pp. 393-394.
  37. ^ Opera Today: How to Write About Music: The RILM Manual of Style. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
  38. ↑ Andreas Janke: Review: MGG Online: Music in the past and present . In: Journal of the American Musicological Society . tape 71 , no. 2 , August 1, 2018, ISSN  0003-0139 , p. 551-560 , doi : 10.1525 / jams.2018.71.2.551 .
  39. ↑ Christiane Tewinkel: Mozart and Madonna: The Great Encyclopedia Music in the past and present is online . In: FAZ , January 2, 2019.
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