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RILM publishes its 200,000th full-text record!

  In 2016 RILM announced the release of RILM abstracts of music literature with full text on EBSCO Information Services. Today we celebrate the publication of our 200,00th full-text record! The milestone record is a review by Markus Lutz of Martin und Johann Christian Hoffmann: Geigen- und Lautenmacher des Barock—Umfeld, Leben, Werk (Leipzig: Hofmeister, 2015) published in Journal of the Lute…

RILM broadens indexing of Chinese dramatic genres

When RILM started out in the mid-1960s, our indexing naturally mirrored the publications that we were working with. For example, relatively little was available in the West about non-Western dramatic genres, while far more publications discussed Western dramatic genres like opera. Accordingly, we developed several indexing headings for those Western genres—opera seria, oratorio, zarzuela, and so…

RILM takes over Index to Printed Music

In May 2017 James Adrian Music Company (JAMC), owner of Index to Printed Music: Collections and Series (IPM), signed an agreement transferring ownership of IPM to Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM), effective 30 June 2018. IPM combines index, bibliography, series, and names databases into a highly comprehensive resource for searching and identifying individual pieces of music…

New month, new resources to highlight!

To ease your mind of international music research questions, our Resource of the Month is actually FOUR resources?? Stay with me while I tell you everything you need to know...

The Four Rs of International Music Research

1) International Repertory of Music Literature (RILM): Provides international bibliographic citations and abstracts of music literature. Dates of coverage: 1800s to present

2) Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (RIPM): Contains citations to articles in scholarly and popular music periodicals. Dates of coverage: 1800 and 1950

3) International Repertory of Musical Iconography (RIdIM): Contains music iconography images by registered researchers, and the description of such images by registered cataloguers. 

4) International Inventory of Musical Sources ( RISM): Identifies and describes the world's pre-1850 musical sources, including primary sources and their locations, manuscripts or printed music, writings on music theory, and libretti. 

  Bibliolore now has over 300 followers! Sure, plenty of music blogs have more, but we have staked out such a tiny niche that we are truly honored. Many thanks to all of our followers and friends! Below, we celebrate by watching someone turn 300 napkins into something resembling wooden tiles.  

Many reference works for music—and presumably other topics—contain articles about fictitious characters. Sometimes writers for these works slyly slip them by their editors (an article on “Verdi, Lasagne” was almost typeset for printing in The new Grove dictionary); others are incorporated with the collusion of all parties. For an example, look up Otto Jägermeier in Komponisten der Gegenwart…