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Marvin Duchow Music Library

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Marvin Duchow Library Archival Collection
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45°30′23″N 73°34′21″W / 45.506449765299266°N 73.57262714651219°W / 45.506449765299266; -73.57262714651219
LocationMontreal, Canada
TypeMusical archive
AffiliationMcGill University
Websitehttps://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

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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

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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

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Name of the fonds Inventory Number URL
Charles Reiner Collection MDML 001 https://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/charles-reiner-collection
Donald Mackey Collection MDML 004 https://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/donald-mackey-collection
Kelsey Jones Collection MDML 009 https://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/kelsey-jones-collection
Paul Pedersen Collection MDML 014 https://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/paul-pedersen-collection
Richard Coulter Collection MDML 019 https://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/richard-coulter-collection
Sonde Collection MDML 021 https://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/sonde-collection
Hellmuth Wolff Organ Collection MDML 022 https://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/hellmuth-wolff-organ-collection
Bernard Gagnon Fonds MDML 027 https://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/bernard-gagnon-fonds
Gian Lyman Collection MDML L1 https://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/gian-lyman-collection

References

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  1. ^ a b "About the Marvin Duchow Music Library". McGill Library. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  2. ^ "Marvin Duchow Music Library". McGill Library. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  3. ^ "Kelsey Jones Collection".
  4. ^ "Bernard Gagnon Fonds".