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IMS Centenary Fund Pledge
In 2027 we will celebrate the centenary of our society. In anticipation, we are launching a fundraising campaign to support a series of Centenary Prizes, which we hope will nurture musicological scholarship for another 100 years. These prizes will recognize…
Timeline of IMS Congresses
The IMS gathers every five years for a week-long international Quinquennial IMS Congress with hundreds of presentations from scholars, musicians, and composers from around the world. 22nd International IMS Congress“Musical Ecosystems”Stavanger (NO), 2–6 August 21st International IMS Congress“Music across Borders”Athens…
Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM)
The International Inventory of Musical Sources—Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM)—is an international, non-profit organization which aims for comprehensive documentation of extant musical sources worldwide. These primary sources are manuscripts or printed music, writings on music theory, and libretti. They…
Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale (RIPM)
The Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale (RIPM) was established in 1980 to provide access to eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century periodical literature dealing with music and to facilitate and encourage research based on this often neglected documentary resource. RIPM represents…
Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM)
Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (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’s flagship publication, RILM…
Grove Music Online
The Grove Music program at Oxford University Press has an editorial board of distinguished scholars who guide the long-term development of Grove. The board advises on the needs of users, reviews updates to existing content, makes recommendations for new content,…
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Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM)
Association Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM) pursues dual aims: (1) It is charged with the cataloguing of visual sources of music, theater, and dance subject matter; and (2) it functions as a strategic and practical framework for their interpretation. Thus,…
The Four R-Projects
The four R-projects were founded under the auspices of the International Musicological Society (IMS) and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML). They provide access to sources of musical patrimony, namely, notated music in manuscript and…