Repertoire International de la Presse Musicale (RIPM)

Abstract

RIPM in Print, Online and on CD-ROM: New Titles Over the past twelve months twelve volumes dealing with the following music periodicals have been published: The Musi cal Gazette (New York, 1854-1855); La Renaissance musicale (Paris, 1881-1883); The New Music Review and Church Music Review (New York, 1901-1935); L'Annee musicale (1911-1913); La Critica musicale (Florence, 1918-1923); and Il Pensiero musicale (Bologna, 1921-1929). In addition the following titles were published in electronic formats only (online and on CDROM): Le Novateur: Echo des arts (Antwerp, 1838-1839); Iberia Musical (Madrid, 1842); Semanario Musical (Santiago, 1852); The Arion (Toronto, 1880-1881); Revista musical de Mexico (Mexico City, 1919-1920); Gaceta Musical (Paris, 1928-1929); and Cultura Musical (Mexico City, 1936-1937). In all thirteen titles were added to RIPM during the past year and over 20,000 new annotated records to RIPM Online and RIPM on CD-ROM. RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals (full-text) The forthcoming RIPM Online Archive was presented at two sessions of the Congress. The first installment of the Archive--which will contain thirty-five journals--searchable and browsable through RIPM Online--will be released in 2009. Beta testing will begin well before the end of 2008. Shortly thereafter, pro motion will follow, a sample of the Archive will be available at the RIPM website (www.ripm.org), and subscriptions will be accepted. RIPM Full-Text Supplement The RIPM Full-Text Supplement was presented for the first time at two Congress sessions. Approximately 4500 specialized music journals, according to the New Grove, were published between 1800 and 1950 in the countries wherein RIPM functions. If some 500 are judged to be for musicological research and for preserving our musical patrimony, RIPM has, in the past twenty-one years, treated just over twenty percent of them. Thus, it would require another eighty years for RIPM to create annotated indexes for the remaining essential core music periodicals. And certainly, as this corpus of literature becomes more familiar, additional titles will be added to the essential core category. Thus, in order to treat in a reasonable amount of time a number of journals (i) that have been selected for priority treatment by RIPM's national groups, and (ii) that contain many pages of miscellaneous news and information reports, and are thus quite time-consuming to index, a new system, using OCR technology and containing several innovative features has been developed. Titles are currently being scanned for inclusion in the RIPM Full-Text Supplement which will be available in 2010, approximately one year after the appearance of the RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals. The creation of the RIPM Full-Text Supplement, will, in no way, inhibit the ongoing annotated indexing for RIPM's principal publications. RIPM's Americas Initiative RIPM's Americas Initiative has two goals: (i) to extend RIPM activities to Latin America, and (ii) to expand RIPM's treatment of U.S. music journals (including those focusing on jazz). Within this context Mary Wallace Davison coordinates North American RIPM activities and Esperanza Berrocal those of Latin America. To date a number of new American (North and Latin) titles have recently been added to RIPM, and many others are in preparation. OTHER NEWS (i) New RIPM Groups Four new RIPM groups have been created, three in Latin America--in Argentina (Instituto de Investigacion Musicologica Carlos Vega, Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina de Buenos Aires, under the direction of Diana Fernandez Calvo); Brazil (Programa de Pos-Graduacao Musica em Contexto, Uni versidade de Brasilia, under the direction of Dr. …