Description: RILM Abstracts of Music Literature features a wealth of content from the early 1800s through the present.
In addition to journal articles, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature covers a variety of publication and media types including essay collections, conference proceedings, critical editions of music, digital media, dissertations, monographs, online resources, reference materials, reviews, and technical drawings of instruments. Sound recordings and motion pictures that present the results of scholarly research or fieldwork are also included.
Titles of works are translated into English, and the majority of records have English abstracts.