Marvin Duchow Library Archival Collection | |
Coordinates: | 45.5064°N -73.5726°W |
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]
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 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.
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.
Name of the fonds | Inventory Number | URL | |
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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 |