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…
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) 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…
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 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…
