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MUSC: Research in Music: Articles

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Key Article Databases

When searching RILM, you can use Subject Major Headings to search for articles in broad areas of music research. Combining a Major Topic with a keyword helps you refine your results more efficiently. Examples of Major Topics include:

  • 24 Renaissance music
  • 39.21 Popular music of North Africa
  • 54 Performance practice in the 20th & 21st centuries
  • 64 Form and genre analysis
  • 97 Music and Islam

Look up the Major Topics associated with your research question on RILM's Classification System website.

Articles in RILM are also tagged with Subjects, which tell you more specifically what an article is about. You can also search by Subject to find more articles on that narrower topic. The following example shows how Major Topics and Subjects work together to classify an article:

RILM article record with major topics and subject highlighted

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