New Full-Text Periodicals,
Thousands of New
Annotated Records
Added Every Six Months
Should be on the reference shelves of every major library … all scholars of the period wil use these volumes often … RIPM deserves our gratitude.
will have an impact on historical musicology for generations to come … one of the major musicological projects of the second half of the twentieth century
National Endowment for the Humanities (USA)
is now available in a new interface provided directly from RIPM [Publications] … The RIPM interface is vastly improved over versions [and] the Archive is the only extensive collection available for music periodicals dating from the Early Romantic to the Modern period.
an indispensable resource for scholars
RIPM is quite simply the finest large-scale bibliographical project in musicology.
National Endowment for the Humanities (USA)
extraordinary flexibility and control possible in setting and refining search parameters … Researchers can easily expand their focus … [or] pinpoint information accurately
The RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals (Full-Text) meets the needs of twenty-first-century scholars.
a necessary subscription for all institutions supporting advanced studies in musicology… Summing up: Essential. Upper-level undergraduates and above.
an editorial initiative of huge mass which we will read and reread as long as historical musicology exists
a great achievement … an essential stepping-stone into the riches of nineteenth-century periodical literature
Books studying important periodicals as windows on national history are likely to proliferate now that the Répertoire international de la presse musicale [RIPM] gets its claws into more and more.
students are being better educated and trained, librarians and archivists serve their collections and readers much more efficiently…The influence of RIPM will be enormous during the coming decades.
National Endowment for the Humanities (USA)
Nineteenth-century periodicals are a source of inestimable value for knowledge concerning musical life. We hope … that all libraries acquire [RIPM’s] well constructed volumes.
These are immaculately presented volumes … The excellence of this worthwhile project is beyond doubt.
RIPM is among the most important musical reference works of the past fifteen years; indeed, in my judgment it’s likely THE most important … no musicologist engaged in historical research can do without it.
National Endowment for the Humanities (USA)
An immensely worthwhile project … a tool which will prove of the greatest value to all working on music from the late-eighteenth to the early-twentieth centuries.
RIPM’s steady progress has been little short of a miracle … RIPM has dramatically enhanced musical scholarship … RIPM is reshaping our views of music itself.
National Endowment for the Humanities (USA)
The fourRsare, without doubt, the most important current bibliographic documentation projects in the field of music research.
an essential work … indispensable … should be on the shelves of every library …
Over the past two decades RIPM has established itself as one of the great phenomena in the history of music bibliography … the project has exemplified the highest intellectual standards of scholarship while fulfilling a dream of productivity that is virtually unprecedented in the field of music scholarship.
National Endowment for the Humanities (USA)
Of great significance for musicological research … The importance of [RIPM] … extends far beyond the field of musicology …
a very welcome addition to our research resources … serious bibliographic coverage of this period is long overdue
certainly the most extensive resource for research on all aspects of nineteenth-century musical life