[1][2] The earliest RME piece, Jean Jacques Rousseau's Dictionnaire de musique, was published in 1775.
[4] These include Ken Bloom's Broadway, Lol Henderson and Lee Stacey's Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century, Peter Matzke et al., Das Gothic- und Dark Wave-Lexikon, and Richard Kostelanetz's Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes.
[6] RME also holds The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music and Eileen Southern's Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians.
[9][10] Stephen Henry mentions RME's “ability to provide access to some excellent European resources that might otherwise, not be available to libraries with less than comprehensive collections.”[11]RME is accessible on EBSCOhost and RILM's platform Egret.
Users can set up accounts where annotations and notes can be created, saved, and shared, cross references linking related content throughout RME, links to related content in RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and other resources, as well as an interface compatible with mobile and tablet devices.