Marvin Duchow Music Library

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Marvin Duchow Library Archival Collection
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The Schulich School of Music and the Marvin Duchow Musical Library
Marvin Duchow Music Library
45°30′23″N73°34′21″W / 45.506449765299266°N 73.57262714651219°W / 45.506449765299266; -73.57262714651219
Location 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]

Contents

Description

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

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

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

References

  1. 1 2 "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".


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