On
January 1, 2017, RILM Music Encyclopedias will add four seminal works to
its collection of 41 historical and current titles:
- Albert
Lavignac and Lionel de La Laurencie, Encyclopédie de la musique et
dictionnaire du Conservatoire. Paris: C. Delagrave, 1913–1931.
- Gracian
Černušák, Bohumír Štědroň, and Zdeněk Nováček, Československý
hudební slovník osob a institucí (Praha: Státní Hudební
Vydavatelství, 1963/1965).
- Franz
Stieger, Opernlexikon/Opera catalogue/Lexique des opéras/Dizionario
operistico (Tutzing: Schneider, 1975–1983).
- Bianca
Maria Antolini, Dizionario degli editori musicali italiani,
1750–1930 (Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2000)
With the
addition of these titles, RILM Music Encyclopedias augments its coverage
and depth, adding topics such as Italian music publishers, printers,
booksellers and all aspects of Slovak and Czech musical life. It also includes
one of the most monumental historic French encyclopedic undertakings and the
most frequently consulted opera catalogue which also contains ballets,
oratorios, and other stage works.
RILM
Music Encyclopedias is the continuously expanding global online repository of
music encyclopedias and dictionaries that is designed to meet the teaching,
learning and research needs of the international music community. In addition
to quarterly updates and revisions, including additions from Komponisten der
Gegenwart, the database broadens its collection annually.
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