RILM: Repertoire International de la Litterature Musicale International Repertory of Music Literature Internationales Repertorium der Musikliteratur: Report No. 2: September 1967

Abstract

It is most appropriate that the first issue of RILM Abstracts should have come into being during this fortieth anniversary of the International Musicological Society, especially while it is under the presidency of Vladimir FMdorov. It was Monsieur Fedorov who, almost twenty years ago at the Liineburg Congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, called for an Entente et organization internationales pour le depouillement des periodiques musicaux. Since I first brought the idea of RILM to his attention two years ago, his help, encouragement and, on occasion, his penetrating criticism have been invaluable. As most of you know, RILM was formally established in the summer of 1966 under the joint sponsorship of the International Musicological Society (IMS) and the International Association of Music Libraries (AIBM). It also enjoys the support of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The members of the Commission Mixte of RILM, as designated by the respective executive boards of the IMS and the AIBM in Ljubljana and Salzburg, are as follows: Harald Heckmann (AIBM) and Fran§ois Lesure (IMS), vice-presidents; Zofia Lissa (IMS), Israel Adler (AIBM), Clemens von Gleich (AIBM), Alexander Hyatt King (AIBM), Jan LaRue (IMS), and Claudio Sartori (IMS). Although RILM will eventually hope to deal with retrospective materials, its immediate objective is to deal with current literature by compiling and publishing abstracts and computer-generated indexes of all scholarly writings on music appearing after 1 January 1967. This includes: