RILM music encyclopedias is an ever-expanding full-text compilation of reference works, most of which are not available anywhere else online. In 2017, the collection includes 45 seminal titles published from 1775 to the present and comprising 95,000 pages. This extensive global resource is designed to meet the teaching, learning, and research needs of the international music community. It provides comprehensive encyclopedic coverage of the most important disciplines, fields, and subject areas of historical musicology and ethnomusicology, with topics ranging from popular music, opera, instruments, blues and gospel, to recorded music and women composers. Its content spans multiple countries and languages—currently English, German, French, Italian, Czech, Dutch, Greek, and Slovak.
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