RIPM was established in 1980 to provide access to eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century periodical literature dealing with music. The Dal Libraries are now offering a 30-day trial of RIPM’s new interface for the Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (1800-1950), as well as the full-text Online Archive of Music Periodicals. The trial runs until February 26.
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This source is going to be invaluable for my thesis work on 19th Century music and opera. It offers a huge range of periodicals and primary source material otherwise impossible to access through Dalhousie. A great addition to the library service and resources!
This will prove enormously useful for my own research, and also for graduate and undergraduate student research projects. In particular, this will be highly useful for the hundreds of undergrads each year who take MUSC 2018: Popular Music Before 1960. The full-text Online Archive will transform music research at Dalhousie!
This is an excellent resource for research on opera and art song before 1960. I wish that it had been available last semester for Vocal Literature. This would be an important addition to the Dalhousie online database.
This would be an major asset to teaching both MUSC 1020 and MUSC 1021 as it is covers the majority of music discussed in both courses. As many of the students in these two courses are new to the subject it provides a comprehensive source of reliable historical information in one location. It would be well used. For example the review of Schubert’s Erl King written in 1835 7 years after the composer’s death is an “eye opener” in commenting on its “bold and extraordinary effects” that for today’s ears are hard to imagine.(The American Music Journal, Vol 1, No 3, Feb 1835)
This is part of a series RILM (Music Literature), RISM (Music Sources) and RIPM (Music Periodicals), which is an indispensable part to any undergraduate and graduate music program. Most students, even in the first and second year core music history sequences, are required to use primary source materials for their essays. This index is the single most important database to access these important resources. Moreover, many students in other disciplines (theatre, European Studies, history, Women and Gender studies, to mention only a few) might not read or analyze musical scores, but they do want to work on reception history, and this is the most important tool to find reviews of major operatic, symphonic and chamber music works. Thus, the usefulness of this resource goes far beyond the music department (and I am indeed supervising theses in other departments on exactly such topics). Overall, this is a central resource in the field!
This resource, because of the authenticity of the materials it will provide, will prove itself extremely useful not only for researchers, but for all musicians seeking to understand the context in which music blossomed during such a critical music history time period as 1800-1950.
For research I will be doing over the next few years this resource would be very useful, providing what I would not be able to get readily elsewhere.