It is amazing to hear about the world's most outstanding music database.
The premier international database of music
scholarship, RILM Abstracts of Music
Literature covers all areas of music, including historical musicology; ethnomusicology; instruments and voice; librarianship; performance practice and notation; theory and analysis; pedagogy; liturgy; dance; criticism and music therapy. RILM also includes interdisciplinary studies of music and various other fields.
The
database encompasses significant writings on music from all types of scholarly works produced worldwide in the last 30 years, such as articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, films and videos, iconographies, critical commentaries to editions, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, and book, record and concert reviews. Abstracts are written by professional music librarians and music scholars.
Just about any institution that wants to support its music curriculum, programs, or departments should consider placing this resource at the top of the list. Longevity goes a long way, and the depth and breadth of RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is not easily comparable.
It is the principal resource for libraries and music scholars for the past 35 years
It is heralded by music devotees as "the premier index to music literature," as well as "the world's largest, continuously updated" international bibliography of scholarly material - Gail Golderman & Bruce Connolly
The online version of RILM includes thousands of current citations published very recently.