RILM Abstracts of Music Literature in its Global Environment:
The Past and Vision for the Future
Zdravko Blažeković
Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is an
abstracted and indexed bibliography of significant
scholarship concerning all genres of music,
published anywhere in the world and appearing in
all print and digital media.
RILM Functions Under the Auspices of:
 The International Musicological Society
 The International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and
Documentation Centres
 The International Council for Traditional Music
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
publications issued since 1967
RILM Retrospective Abstracts of Music Literature
publications issued before 1967
Number of records in both databases: 770,000
Barry S. Brook
(1918-1997)
“automatic indexing by computer
will make possible very extensive
cross indexing and effective
retrieval of information”
Barry S. Brook, 1965
Data processing system IBM S360/40
“scholars working on specific
research projects will eventually be
able to request a bibliographic
search by the computer of its
stored information and to receive
an automatic printed-out replay”
Barry S. Brook, 1965
Transliteration system recommended by
the International Organization for Standardization
Чайковский, Пётр Ильич
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich
Txaikovski, Piotr Ilitx
柴可夫斯基, 彼得·伊里奇
ISO/RILM
Čajkovskij, Pëtr Il'ič
RILMs international thesaurus integrated with the index, 1971
Bilingual record in
RILMs editorial database
Portions of RILM’s
name authority card
RILM’s indexing style
Narrower term
Corelli, Arcangelo/performances/Italy/Roma/Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore/1676-1712
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da/performances/Vatican/Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano/1551
Headword
Corelli, Arcangelo ― Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da ― performances ― Basilica di Santa Maria
Maggiore, Roma ― Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano, Vatican
FRBR relationships between works
Alexander III (the Great), king of Macedonia & Cleofile
Rufus, Quintus Curtius/Historiae Alexandri Magni (biography)
Plutarch, Lucius Mestrius/Life of Alexander (biography)
Boyer, Claude/Porus, ou La générosité d'Alexandre (tragedy)
Racine, Jean/Alexandre le Grand (tragedy)
Pietro Metastasio/Alessandro nell' Indie (play)
Hasse, Johann Adolf/Alessandro nell’Indie (opera)
Vinci, Leonardo/ Alessandro nell'Indie (opera)
Tottola, Andrea Leona/Alessandro nelle India (libretto)
Pacini, Giovanni/Alessandro nelle Indie (opera seria)
Anonymous/Alessandro nelle India (libretto)
Händel, Georg Friedrich/Poro, rè dell'Indie, HWV 28 (dramma per musica)
Boccardi, Michelangelo/Cleofide (libretto)
Hasse, Johann Adolf/Cleofide (opera seria)
Mauro, Bartolomeo Ortensio/La superbia di Alessandro (libretto)
Mauro, Bartolomeo Ortensio/Il zelo di Leonato (revision of original libretto)
Roli, Paolo Antonio/Alessandro (revision of libretto by Mauro)
Händel, Georg Friedrich/Alessandro, HWV 21 (dramma per musica)
composers
organists
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1676-1704
1557-1624
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Gasparini, Francesco
Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli
Scarlatti, Alessandro
manuscripts
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Scarlatti Masses
Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli
RILM’s indexing style
Narrower term
Dates
Corelli, Arcangelo/performances/Italy/Roma/Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore/1676-1712
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da/performances/Vatican/Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano/1551
Headword
The presentation is available at:
https://gc-cuny.academia.edu/ZdravkoBlazekovic/Talks
Zdravko Blažeković
[email protected]