Bibliography of Music Literature

Since 1968, the BMS editorial staff has also been working as the German committee for the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM).

[1] The bibliography includes monographs, master’s theses and doctoral dissertations, articles and reviews from journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, yearbooks, anthologies, and essays from critical reports.

Each record provides the title in the original language (for East European- and Asian entries a German translation is added), full bibliographic data, a keyword index, and mostly an abstract.

The commencement of this bibliographic enterprise after World War II is owed to the musicologist and librarian Wolfgang Schmieder.

Since that time the Bibliography of Music Literature has been a regular publication of the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung.