RIdIM at Ohio State

The OSU Music/Dance Library is home to the central Editorial Office for the database of the Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM), an international project with the objective of developing methods, means and research centers for the classification, cataloging, and study of iconographical material relating to music. Library staff involved in the project include librarians Alan Green (Project Coordinator) and Sean Ferguson (Editor-in-Chief) and cataloger Margaret (Gretchen) Atkinson. In addition, numerous School of Music students have contributed their time and skills to entering records and editing data. The activities of the Editorial Office are:

*  Providing editorial oversight of the RIdIM database, in consultation with the RIdIM Commission Mixte, including quality control and maintenance of controlled lists of names, places and terms

*  Entering records in the RIdIM database, using data from catalog cards compiled by RIdIM researchers in the 1970s and 80s, updated with newly verified information whenever possible

*  Communicating with RIdIM catalogers in various countries to provide training, guidance and general support

*  Creating and revising documentation to support RIdIM cataloging

*  Providing testing and feedback for the ongoing database development process

RIdIM editorial resources

*  Getty Research Tools

*  Oxford Art Online

*  Oxford Music Online

*  Research Center for Music Iconography

*  RIdIM Style Guide (coming soon)

*  RIdIM Helpful Hints (coming soon)

*  Special Characters (Microsoft Diacritics Keyboard codes)

Resources for art images and information

*  Artcyclopedia

*  Bridgeman Art Library

*  Fine Arts in Hungary

*  Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

*  Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)

*  Google Image Search

*  Joconde (Musées de France)

*  NYPL Digital

*  Scholars Resource

*  Web Gallery of Art

Periodicals and series (with OSU call numbers)

*  Imago Musicae (Official organ of the International Repertory of Musical Iconography, 1984-present). ML85 .I48

*  Inventory of music iconography / International Repertory of Musical Iconography (Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1986- ). ML85 .I588

*  Music in Art (Research Center for Music Iconography of the City University of New York Graduate School, 1998-present; continues RIdIM/RCMI Newsletter). ML26 .R15

*  Musikgeschichte in Bildern (hrsg. von Heinrich Besseler und Max Schneider). ML89 .M86

*  Musique-images-instruments (Revue française d'organologie et d'iconographie musicale, 1995-present). ML85 .M97

*  RIdIM/RCMI Newsletter (1975-1997, continued by Music in Art). ML26 .R15

Books and Microforms (with OSU call numbers)

*  Brown, Howard Mayer and Joan Lascelle. Musical iconography: a manual for cataloguing musical subjects in Western art before 1800. ML111.B745 M9

*  European musical instruments on prints and drawings : Collection Music Department Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands (RIdIM microfiche set). ML462.H3 G42

*  Leppert, Richard D. The theme of music in Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century. ND666 .L4 v.1-2

*  Musikmotiv i svensk kyrkokonst = Musical motifs in Swedish church art. N7961 .M34 1993

*  Schuetze, George C. Convergences in music & art: a bibliographic study. ML3849 .S36 2005

Address comments and questions to RIdIM Editor-in-Chief Sean Ferguson or RIdIM Project Coordinator Alan Green