RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text RIPM (Répertoire international de la presse musicale) provides full-text access periodical literature focused on music and musical life from approximately 1800 to 1950. Includes access to primary source music periodicals dating from the Early Romantic to the Modern Period. Collectively this resource offers both an almost daily chronicle of musical activities extending over a period of 200 years.