New Periodicals

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New Periodicals Lindsay Hansen Brown This semiannual column selectively lists new periodicals; describes their objectives, formats, and contents; and provides information special issues; title and format changes, mergers, and cessations. The following resources were frequently consulted when assembling this column: Music Periodicals Database (MPD; http://www.proquest.com/products-services/iimp_ft.html), Music Index (MI; https://www.ebscohost.com/academic/music-index), RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, (RILM; http://www.rilm.org), OCLC Worldcat and Ulrich's Periodical Directory (www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb/), and the Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org). All Web sites were accessed on 19 March 2020 unless otherwise indicated. NEW TITLES International Journal of the Study of Music and Musical Performance. Edited by Luisa Nardini, Rob Haskins, and Tom Moore. Published online. Vol. 1, No. 1 (2019). No ISSN. http://openmusiclibrary.org. According to its journal homepage, "The International Journal of the Study of Music and Music Performance advances both a general and professional interest in music and its performance with essays that cover a range of approaches: from discussions of little-known composers and musicians drawing upon primary and secondary sources to more specialized studies of composers, works, instruments, performers, audiences, and institutions. A review section will cover new books, scores, and recordings. Whenever possible, international contributions will be presented in the original language as well as in English." ELECTRONICA Reviews, new titles, and publisher and title changes announced elsewhere in this column include additional comments about electronic access. Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale [RILM] has expanded the geographic representation of music scholarship in RILM Abstracts, particularly of literature published in India; seen a significant increase in the full-text content in Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text; added five new titles to RILM Music Encyclopedias and preparations for launching the database on RILM's own platform, Egret; completed the Index to Printed Music's data migration into RILM's systems and relaunch on EBSCOhost; further developed the RILM thesaurus project; and added new content and enhanced functionality, including a new timeline feature, for MGG Online. [End Page 152] RILM Music Encyclopedias provide comprehensive encyclopedic coverage of fields and subject areas in musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory, among them pop and rock, opera, instruments, blues, gospel, recorded sound, and women composers. Its content spans multiple countries and languages—currently English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Czech, Greek, Portuguese, Slovak, and Spanish. Searches can be performed within a specific encyclopedia or across the entire collection. In January 2019 five new titles were added, all focused on instruments. This brought the total to 54 titles (published originally in print from 1775 to the present). The additions were: Domingo Prat. Diccionario biográfico – bibliográfico – histórico – crítico de guitarras (instrumentos afines), guitarristas (profesores – compositores – concertistas – lahudistas – amateurs), guitarreros (luthiers) – Danzas y cantos – terminología. Buenos Aires: Romero y Fernández, 1934. 469 p. Sibyl Marcuse. Musical instruments: A comprehensive dictionary. New York: Doubleday, 1964. xiv, 608 p. Curt Sachs. Real-Lexikon der Musik -instrumente, zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamte Instrumentengebiet. New York: Dover Publications, 1964. xxiii, 452 p. Hortense Panum. The stringed instruments of the Middle Ages: Their evolution and development—A detailed and comprehensive history, with illustrations, of the evolution of the mediaeval stringed musical instruments from their first appearance in the records of the earliest civilisations, through their gradual development in the Greek, Roman and Christian eras down to more recent times. Translated and edited by Jeffrey Pulver. London: William Reeves, [1939 or 1940]. ix, 511 p. Sibyl Marcuse. A survey of musical instruments. New York: Harper & Row, 1975. xiii, 842 p. In February 2020, three rock music titles joined the growing collection of reference resources included in RILM Music Encyclo -pedias, bringing the total to 57 titles published originally in print from 1775 to the present, and 308,125 entries. The additions were: Ian McFarlane. The encyclopedia of Australian rock and pop (2nd corrected ed.; Gisborne, VIC: Third Stone Press, 2017) 544 p. Bernward Halbscheffel. Lexikon Progressive Rock: Musiker, Bands, Instrumente, Begriffe (Rev. ed.; Leipzig: Halbscheffel Verlag, 2013) iii, 560 p. Bernward Halbscheffel. Sachlexikon Rock-musik: Instrumente, Technik, Industrie (Leip-zig: Halbscheffel Verlag, 2013) 2 vols...