RILM THESAURUS SUB-COMMISSIONAuthor(s): Anders LönnSource: Fontes Artis Musicae, Vol. 26, No. 2 (1979 April-Juni), p. 125Published by: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres(IAML)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23505705 .

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RIdIM 125

be omitted. François Lesure remarked that some national committees (which are responsible for se

lectivity) have become too lax in eliminating unimportant works. Concerning reviews printed without the original works being abstracted: the RILM office tries, and will continue to try, to acquire the abstracts.

Discussion also revolved around a point raised at the meeting of the Executive Board of IAML, that a definite term of office be established for all joint commissions, with regular reappointments by the sponsoring organizations. In response to a query regarding RILM Retrospectives, it was announced that at the end of 1978 Pendragon Press (New York) will publish Thèses de doctorat en langue française relatives à la musique. Bibliographie commentée, ed. Jean Gribenski et al., and with a bilingual index. International Congress Reports in Music, ed. Barry S. Brook and Sylvia Eversole, will go to the printer in fall 1979. The Iconography of Music, by Frederick Crane, has been indefinitely postponed.

Barry S. Brook, President Nanna Schi0dt, Secretary

Commission Internationale Mixte

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The chairman reported that work on the international thesaurus is progressing. A list of Italian

terms had been prepared by Mariangela Donà, and a corresponding one for Spanish by José Lôpez Calo. Since the principle was to include only those terms that are dissimilar to a chosen principal lan

guage within each linguistic family (as well as to the original English), the Italian and Spanish terms

would now be checked against the French list (which had been updated by Jean Gribenski).

During the coming year, a major effort would be made by the chairman and the secretary, Kathleen

Toomey, to cover remaining Germanic, Romance, and Slavonic languages, i.e. (a) Dutch and Norwe

gian (with revisions of the German, Swedish, and Danish lists), (b) Portuguese and Romanian, and (c)

Czech, Slovenian, and Serbo-Croatian. These should all be incorporated in the second five-year cumu

lative index. In the next stage, Arabic languages, Hebrew, and Japanese might be tackled.

The international thesaurus should also be checked against the IAML/IMS Terminorum musicae

index septem Unguis redactus, ed. by Horst Leuchtmann, which had just appeared, and against the Ger

man thesaurus of genres and forms compiled by the Classification Sub-Commission. Since the latter

body was now grappling with the problem of non-Western and non-art music terms and concepts, it

was felt that any work in this area should be coordinated by them.

The possibilities of translating the English thesaurus in its entirety into another language or lan

guages, to provide an indexing tool that could be used at the national level, were also discussed. It was

pointed out, however, that this was a fairly complex matter, e.g.: (a) when the English and the target

language term were not synonymous, a change in the structure of the thesaurus would be necessary;

(b) not only the terms and their structure would be affected, but also the structure of the index en

tries, to conform with different linguistic usage. The chairman referred to recent work on multilingual

indexing languages by Derek Austin and Jutta Sarensen in their papers PRECIS in a multilingual con

text 1-2 (Libri 1976/1-2). Anders Lönn, Chairman

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Chairman's Report

The ninth meeting of RIdIM under IAML sponsorship was convened by Barry Brook, who sum

marized RIdlM's steady development within the past eight years and its recent significant strides.

Three sessions were devoted to musical iconography at the International Musicological Society meeting in Berkeley (August 1977). Annual RIdIM conferences have been held for the last six years at the City

University of New York, increasing in size every year. The last one, on 15 April 1978, was the largest and the most successful. It included two major panel discussions - "Social History and Musical Cul

ture as Revealed in Art Works" (participants were Howard Brown, Richard Leppert, and James Mc

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