Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM)

The World's Writings on a World of Music

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Music Resources from RILM

RILM documents and disseminates music research worldwide. It is committed to the comprehensive and accurate representation of music scholarship in all countries and languages, and across all disciplinary and cultural boundaries. RILM offers full-text resources for the study of music, musicology and related disciplines.

The product suite includes:

  • RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text: One of the richest and most comprehensive full-text resources of scholarly music research, offering full-text search and cover-to-cover browsing.
  • RILM Abstracts of Music Literature: A comprehensive music bibliography which features citations, abstracts and subject indexing.
  • RILM Music Encyclopedias: An ever-expanding full-text compilation of reference works, many of which are not available anywhere else online.
  • Index to Printed Music (IPM): The digital finding aid for locating musical works contained in printed collections, sets and series.