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The Universal Encyclopedia of Italian Music, Reimagined for the Digital Age

A must-have for scholars, musicians, and institutions engaging with Italian and global music culture

HARRASSOWITZ is thrilled to announce that DEUMM Online is now available through our services. The Dizionario enciclopedico universale della musica e dei musicisti (DEUMM) is the most comprehensive encyclopedia of music in the Italian language. Now fully enhanced for the digital age, DEUMM Online is hosted on RILM’s advanced Egret platform, offering seamless access for institutions worldwide to a niche music type resource.

Originally published between 1983 and 2005 by UTET Grandi Opere under the editorship of Alberto Basso, this authoritative reference work is now reimagined for 21st-century research and teaching.

A Digital Evolution of an Italian Classic
More than a digital archive, DEUMM Online represents an evolving research platform. It preserves and expands DEUMM’s original three thematic sections — Le biografie, Il lessico, and I titoli e i personaggi —with deep scholarship on everything from Western classical music to pop, jazz, world music, dance, film music, and music in antiquity.

Discover, Explore, and Teach with DEUMM Online
This new institutional model ensures seamless access for entire universities, music schools, and research centers. With its robust editorial direction and powerful technological foundation, DEUMM Online supports scholars, educators, and students working at the intersection of tradition and innovation in music research.

Free Trial

A 30-day free institutional trial is available through HARRASSOWITZ,

allowing institutions to explore the full benefits before subscribing.

HAR Title ID: DIZ050425

Pricing for institutional site-wide online access is based on the number of FTEs.

Watch video for a quick introduction!

With DEUMM Online, institutions benefit from:

Premium educational resources / Unmatched content – Over 13,000 subject entries and 22,000 biographies, many exclusive to DEUMM
Continuous updates – Around 150 newly written or revised entries added each year
Expert curation – Edited by leading musicologists Daniela Castaldo and Antonio Baldassarre
Multilingual interface – While the core content is in Italian, users benefit from a fully bilingual platform (English/Italian) and automatic translation into 100+ languages
Next-level discoverability – Advanced search, sortable lists, and a traceable browsing history
Article versioning – Switch easily between current and historical versions of entries
Integrated research ecosystem – Linked to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, MGG Online, VIAF, OPAC SBN, and more
Open-access multimedia – Audio, video, and visual content, continuously added
Fully mobile-friendly – Optimized for tablets and smartphones
Expanded scholarly scope – New content includes 541 genres, covering established topics as well as emerging fields like pop and film music, sound studies, gender and race in music, and postcolonial theory

Order information

Please request a price quote through your normal library channels or contact service@harrassowitz.de for more information. Detailed information may be found in Fokus, the HARRASSOWITZ system for acquisition and management of scholarly resources.

To obtain a Fokus account for your library, please contact service@harrassowitz.de.

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