On 20 July 1953, the third IAML meeting was held in association with the International Musicological Society (IMS) conference in Bamberg, Germany.
- Reports in Bulletin d'Information 2, no. 1 (October 1953) on JSTOR
- Reports in Bericht über den internationalen musikwissenschaftlichen Kongress Bamberg 1953, edited by Wilfried Brennecke, Willi Kahl, and Rudolf Steglich (Kassel and Basel: Bärenreiter, 1954) on musiconn.publish
