The Bibliography of Music Literature (BMS or BMS online, german: Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums) is an international

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of literature on music. It considers all kind of music and includes both current and older literature. Since 1968, the BMS editorial staff has also been working as the German committee for the

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(RILM). The bibliography includes

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s, master’s theses and doctoral dissertations, articles and reviews from journals,

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en,

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, and essays from critical reports. It contains

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as well as online resources, data media, sound recordings, audiovisual media, and

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s. Each record provides the title in the original language (for

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- and

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n entries a German translation is added), full bibliographic data, a keyword index, and mostly an abstract. Currently, BMS online has more than 315,000

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of literature on music. It is supplemented by the OLC-SSG Musicology, which incorporates the contents of some more 150 music journals from 1993 onward. BMS ''online'' participates actively on

Virtual Library of Musicology The Virtual Library of Musicology or ViFaMusik (german: Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Musikwissenschaft) was funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) to provide sources and materials for music and musicology. The proje ...

(ViFaMusik), the central gateway for music and musicology in Germany.

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BMS was established in 1936 by the

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in Berlin with the aim to list literature on music from all over the world. It was published in print from 1936 through 1988. Currently it is available as BMS ''online'' in a cumulative online database, which is updated in real-time.

History

Established in 1936, the BMS resumed the bibliographic surveys printed in th
Jahrbücher der Musikbibliothek Peters
The first BMS editor was Kurt Taut, who was succeeded by Georg Karstädt. Originally printed by Friedrich Hofmeister in Leipzig (Leipzig: Hofmeister, 1936-1941 olumes 1.1936 to 4.1939, after a span of four years BMS was stopped due to wartime limitations. The commencement of this bibliographic enterprise after World War II is owed to the musicologist and librarian

Wolfgang Schmieder Wolfgang Schmieder (May 29, 1901 – November 8, 1990) was a German music librarian and musicologist. Schmieder was born in Bromberg (now Bydgoszcz, Poland).Eggebrecht, Hans. "Wolfgang Schmieder". ''Oxford Music Online''. 2001, https://doi.o ...

.Wolfgang Schmieder CV in the University Library of Frankfurt a. Main
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the first volume for 1950/51 appeared in 1954. Since that time the Bibliography of Music Literature has been a regular publication of the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung. The last volume in print format was published in 2001 and covered the year 1988 (Frankfurt am Main: Hofmeister, 1954-1968 olumes 1.1950/51 to 6.1960 Mainz: Schott, 1969-2001 olumes 1961 to 1988. Since 2006, there has been the Bibliography of Music Literature as BMS ''online''.

Bibliography

*Kurt Taut (Ed.) ''Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums'' **1.Jg, 07-12.1936, Leipzig 193
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**2.Jg, 01-12.1937, Leipzig 193
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*Wolfgang Schmieder (Ed.) ''Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums'' **1950-51, Frankfurt 195
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**1952-53, Frankfurt 195
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**1954-55, Frankfurt 195
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*Jacquelin Barber Toy, ''A Bibliography of English- and German-Language Music Periodicals Indexed Before 1949'', in series of K.S.U. master's degree research documents, ''Sources of Music Periodical Indexing''. N.B.: "A research report submitted to the Kent State University School of Library Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Library Science, August 1969"
Silvia C. E. Mai, ''Anforderung an eine Datenbank im SIM - Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung'', Berlin 2004
preliminary study for the online database: BMS ''online''*Carsten Schmidt, “Die Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums (BMS) ist online”, ''Forum Musikbibliothek - Beiträge und Informationen aus der musikbibliothekarischen Praxis'' 28/1 (2007) 10-13 *Oliver Schwab-Felisch/ Fred Mengering/ David van der Kemp, “Zur wissenschaftlichen Musikliteratur in den USA und in Deutschland. Eine empirisch-statistische Studie auf der Basis des Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM)”, ''Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie - ZGMTH'' 2/3 (2005) 53-99 *Christine Siegert, “Musikwissenschaft digital - Probleme und Chancen einer Virtuellen Fachbibliothek Musik”, ''

Die Musikforschung ''Die Musikforschung'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of musicological which since 1948 is published on behalf of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung by Bärenreiter. The editors-in-chief are Panja Mücke (Hochschule für Musik und ...

'' 64/4 (2011) 383-386

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BMS onlineRILM National Committee of Germany
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130718100309/http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/recherche/datenbanken/detail/datenbank/6442.html BMS ''online'' listed as an online resource in the "Hamburg State and University Library - Carl von Ossietzky"] Published bibliographies Music publications Musicology

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