RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals, EBSCO Publishing

RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals is an international, highly annotated database with detailed content analysis of writings on musical history and culture between 1800 and 1950--from Beethoven to Bartok, from Berlioz to Berg, and from Schubert to Shostakovich--all provided by internationally-recognized scholars and editors.

Published under the auspices of the International Musicological Society and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres, RIPM treats primary source material found in music periodicals published in twenty (20) countries.

RIPM is updated biannually and currently indexes the contents of over 140 music periodicals including articles, reviews, illustrations, music examples, advertisements, press reviews, and more. RIPM's highly annotated indexing is based upon a detailed analysis of the content. Of great interest is the fact that RIPM provides keywords in context, thus allowing users to determine immediately if a given citation is of interest. RIPM's system saves users an immense amount of time in comparison with mechanical, OCR indexing.

In addition, RIPM offers more than 5,000 English-language translations of articles from journals in other languages. New titles are added to the database every six (6) months.

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RIPM features:

Unique access to primary source material
Annotated index to music periodicals from 1800 to 1950
A cumulative index to 247 printed volumes
Over 140 indexed music periodicals
535,000 highly annotated records
Essential chronological complement to RILM (1967-) and the Music Index (1949-)
Hundreds of thousands of references not available in New Grove & MGG
A detailed, first-hand chronicle of music and musical life
Primary source for reception history and biography
Extensive bibliography of printed music
A major electronic teaching tool
Immense possibilities for new research
Internationally-recognized editors and collaborators
Thousands of translations of foreign language documents
Searching in any of thirteen (13) languages
New titles added every six (6) months

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