You can change the interface language of each page by choosing the first drop-down option in the Translate menu.
Type one or more words into the box at the upper right of the any screen and press Enter or click Search. This will find that term in all text, including titles, body text, image captions, bibliography, and discography and will return the greatest number of results. (Results can be filtered on the search results screen for more precision.)
Typing more than one term into the box will search all terms independently and display all results for all terms.
Surround your search with quotation marks to search for a phrase.
Use an asterisk (*) to truncate a search. Compos* will match “composer” and “composition.”
Use a question mark (?) as a wildcard to replace any individual character.
Click the Advanced button to display the Advanced Search box.
To use Search builder, enter a term or phrase in the box, click + Add to enter a second term or phrase, etc. The dropdowns to the left of each text box list the possible Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT). Boolean searching can be done in the simple search box. The operators AND, OR, and NOT must be typed in all capitals.
Results are ranked by how frequently search terms appear in articles and where in the articles they appear.
Choose the number of results displayed per page. Use the numbers or the right (or left) arrows to move to different pages of results.
The buttons immediately below the Results-per-page switch the view from titles-only to titles with previews of the first two instances of the search term or phrase in context. Clicking the section head here will take you to the full text of that section. Each result also has a Preview / Hide link, which affects only that result in the list.
Note that any criteria may be combined, added to, or subtracted from the filter at any point.
Article type: Filter your search results by article type. There are eleven types of articles; click See more to expand the list to all available in the results set.
Publications allows filtering by titles. By default, the most frequent publications within the results are listed; click See more to expand the list to all available in the results set.
Language allows filtering results according to languages. By default, the most frequent languages within the results are listed; click See more to expand the list to all available in the results set.
Choose from a list.
The filters available with Search are also available with Browse.
The only index currently available is Article title.
The search function Articles containing: searches ONLY the two or three-letter alphabetic set currently selected.
The article display is headed by a title bar that displays the title of the article, the title of the publication, and the author. If no author is identified for the article, it defaults to the encyclopedia editor.
Articles are initially displayed with three panes. The left pane can be collapsed to the side to create a wider space for the full text.
When you arrive at an article from search results, instances of search term(s) are highlighted in the text. Click Hide highlights to remove them from display. Click Show highlights to restore them.
For longer articles, the headings of the major sections of the article are shown in blue type. Click on any one of them to dig down to the next level of the section hierarchy. It may take multiple clicks to reach the text of the article.
Click any section heading to navigate to that portion of the article.
Click the carat next to a heading to expand or contract the view of that section. The view will not change until the carat is clicked again, even if the view of the parent heading is changed.
If you arrive at the article screen from a search, highlighted headings identify the locations of the searched term(s); numerals indicate the number of appearances of the term(s) in each section.
Buttons for four operations are visible by default.
To view the in-article search box, click on magnifying glass icon in the Article menu on the right side of the screen. The in-article search box appears automatically when you reach an article through search. You can search for a term, or for a phrase using quotation marks. Typing more than one term into the Search in this article text box without using quotation marks will search all terms independently and display all results for all terms. The results will be displayed as highlights in the Article Contents in the left page. Clicking a highlighted heading will take you to that section of the article. The search term(s) will be highlighted in the body text. Clicking Hide highlights will hide them from the text, but not from the Article contents. Click Show highlights to reveal the search terms in the text again. Click Clear search to remove all highlights from Article contents.
As by way of clicking on the first drop-down option of the Translate menu, clicking on the globe icon will bring up a Google Translate menu. Select a language, and you will see a machine-generated translation of the page. The site will continue to be translated until click on the x or on Show original in the Google Translate bar at the very top of your browser window.
Click the print icon to print any section(s) of the current article. Then in the Article Contents section, select the first, then the last section you want to print. Select the same section twice to print just one section.
Below the Article Tools, up to three sections of referencing links are offered:
Related content provides links to related articles in the same title.
Other publications provides links to other titles of RILM Music Encyclopedias and related articles in MGG Online.
External links provides links to VIAF and GND. Links to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature are only visible if your institution subscribes to RILM Abstracts. The link leads to a search for content content indexed with the name or topic of the article in RILM Music Encyclopedias.
Links appear at the bottom of each section that will take you to the preceding or following section, if there is one. The title of each section is shown.
Back to top will return you to the beginning of the currently displayed section.
With a personal account on RILM Music Encyclopedias, you have the ability to customize the interface, as well as to record, organize, and share your research.
It is free of charge to any member of a subscribing institution. You will need an active email address. This does not need to be associated with your institution; you can continue to use it if you are visiting another institution, or if you move permanently to another institution.
At any time, click My Account at the top of any page.
In My Settings you can choose a default size for the display of article text, and set the default language of the interface and the preferred citation style.
Recently Viewed lists articles, in reverse chronological order, that you have viewed since creating your account, and the particular section of the article you read last.
