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Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale is an international project, founded on 26 August 1971 at a meeting of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centers (IAML), with the objective of developing methods, means and research centers for the classification, cataloguing, and study of iconographical material relating to music. It is designed to assist performers, historians, librarians, instrument makers, record manufacturers, and book publishers in making the fullest use of visual materials for scholarly and practical purposes. The initiative for the project came from Barry S. Brook, with the support of Geneviève Thibault and Harald Heckmann. The cataloguing of iconographic documents significant to music was, until the early 1970s largely a private and uncoordinated affair, and poorly equipped with methodology and research tools. Several systems of cataloguing visual materials had been proposed, but RIdIM took the lead because of its use of new technologies that facilitate the cataloguing of vast numbers of sources. This is how RIdIM followed RISM (1952) and RILM (1966) as the third important international cooperative bibliographical venture in music. Like them, RIdIM is sponsored by the International Musicological Society and IAML, as well as the International Council of Museums. It is governed by the Commission Internationale Mixte, appointed by the executive boards of its three sponsoring societies. RIdIM functions through national committees. The oldest and by far the largest national center is the Centre d'Iconography Musicale in Paris, founded by the Countess of Chambure (Geneviève Thibault), in 1967. Since 1992 the center, which works under the auspices of the Institut de recherche sur le patrimoine musical en France, affiliated with the Bibliothèqie Nationale de France in Paris. The Research Center for Music Iconography, established in 1972 at the City University of New York, serves as the American national RIdIM center. It has a photographic archive and RIdIM Master Catalogue. The Swedish national committee was established in 1975 at the Svenskt Musikhistoriskt Arkiv, Stockholm. The German national committe, sponsored by RISM-Germany, was established at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, in 1976. The Italian center, Catalogo Italiano di Iconografia Musicale, founded in 1987, is housed at the library of the Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Giuseppe Verdi" in Milan. National centers are also established in Canada, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Poland. Cataloguing of iconographic sources is also done in a number of local research institutions and universities.
Under the auspices of RIdIM following inventories of music iconography have been published: General A corpus of Trecento pictures with musical subject matter, by Howard Mayer Brown I/1: Pictures signed by or attributed to particular artists or their followers: Altichiero de Zevero to Duccio di Buoninsegna. Imago musicae: International yearbook of musical iconography I (1984), 189-243. France Inventaire des tableaux à sujets musicaux du musée du Louvre
Germany
Italy Iconografia musicale in Italia, sponsored by Società Italiana di Musicologia.
The Netherlands
Sweden Musikmotiv i svensk kyrkokonst = Musical motifs in Swedish church art, sponsored by the Svenska RIdIM-kommittén, Statens Musiksamlingar.
USA RIdIM/RCMI inventories of music iconography, published by the Research Center for Music Iconography, New York (ISSN 0889-6607)
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