Marvin Duchow Music Library
| Marvin Duchow Library Archival Collection | |
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 Interactive map of Marvin Duchow Library Archival Collection | |
| 45°30′23″N 73°34′21″W / 45.506449765299266°N 73.57262714651219°W | |
| Location | 3rd floor - 527 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Canada |
| Type | Musical archive |
| Affiliation | McGill University |
| Website | https://mcgill.ca/library/branches/music, https://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/marvin-duchow-music-library |
The Marvin Duchow Music Library is a branch of McGill University Library. Its mandate is to "provides resources and services to support the performance, composition, research, and teaching programs of the Schulich School of Music".[1]
Description
[edit]Located in Montreal, at the third, fourth and fifth floors of the Elizabeth Wirth Music Building,[2] the library contains printed scores, recordings, books and journals, and other data related to music and its performance. More than 200 000 documents[1] are accessible to visitors, making the collection one of the most important in Canada, documenting Renaissance scores, Baroque music, jazz recordings and 20th-century music. The library also offers audio and video equipment to its members, including microphones, playback equipments, turntables...
Pianos are available to visitors and members in the library.
Archival collection
[edit]The library also contains a small archival collection, which contains correspondence, photographs, programmes and audio and video recordings documenting Canadian music, both classical and avant-garde, through artists such as Kelsey Jones[3] and Bernard Gagnon,[4] which taught or were students of McGill University.
Contents of the collection
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 "About the Marvin Duchow Music Library". McGill Library. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
- ↑ "Marvin Duchow Music Library". McGill Library. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
- ↑ "Kelsey Jones Collection".
- ↑ "Bernard Gagnon Fonds".