RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (RILM_Music_Abstracts)

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

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• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, published by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, New York, NY, contains records in over 200 languages; entries include original-language titles, title translations in English, full bibliographic information, and abstracts in English, as well as author, journal, and in-depth subject indexes.
• Non-roman writing systems, such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Thai, are displayed and indexed for searching.
• Articles, books, commentaries, conference proceedings, dissertations, festschriften, reviews, internet resources, motion pictures, sound recordings and technical drawings of musical instruments are all covered.
• Over 30,000 new records are added to the database each year.

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