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 ( )

“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 Čajkovskij, Pëtr Il'ič ISO/RILM

RILMs international thesaurus integrated with the index, 1971

Bilingual record in RILMs editorial database

Portions of RILM’s name authority card

Corelli, Arcangelo/performances/Italy/Roma/Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore/ Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da/performances/Vatican/Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano/1551 Corelli, Arcangelo ― Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da ― performances ― Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Roma ― Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano, Vatican Headword Narrower term RILM’s indexing style

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)

organists composers manuscripts Scarlatti Masses Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli Gasparini, Francesco Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli Scarlatti, Alessandro

Corelli, Arcangelo/performances/Italy/Roma/Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore/ Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da/performances/Vatican/Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano/1551 RILM’s indexing style Headword Narrower termDates

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