RILM remembers Dr. Tatsuhiko Itō, who passed away on Saturday, 27 September, at the age of 72. A longtime member of RILM’s Japanese national committee and its chair from 2015 to 2024, Dr. Itō leaves behind important contributions to musicological research, including publications on Western art music from several periods, music pedagogy, and liturgical music. Moreover, his fervent commitment to the enterprise of forming a global community of music researchers was ever-present through his leadership of RILM Japan and IAML Japan, his committee work, and the curation of annual bibliographies of music literature published in Japan (the Ongakubunken Mokuroku). The latter formed the basis for Japan’s contributions to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and are now available through Japan’s own digital database.Under Itō’s direction, the Japanese committee flourished. One of the first in Asia and one of the very few national committees that has been contributing bibliographic records and abstracts to the RILM database continuously since the 1960s, Japan was ahead of the curve on how Japanese music is categorized. For example, RILM’s current classification system owes Itō a debt of gratitude, as it was the Japanese committee that championed a better way to accommodate Japanese music.
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