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Databases

International Music Score Library Project Unrestricted Resource Some full text available

IMSLP stands for International Music Score Library Project and started in February 16, 2006. It is a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores based on the wiki principle; it is also more than that. Users can exchange musical ideas through the site, submit their own compositions, or listen to other people's composition; this makes IMSLP an ever-growing musical community of music lovers for music lovers.

Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music Unrestricted Resource Some full text available

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. The collection spans the years 1780 to 1980, but its strength is its throrough documentation of nineteenth-century America through popular music. The collection is especially strong in music spawned by military conflicts from the War of 1812 through World War I, and minstrel music is also well-represented.

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Music in Canada Unrestricted Resource Some full text available

The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada describes the full breadth and depth of Canada’s musical culture, including the historical and current aspects of popular, folk, religious, concert and other forms of music.

The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available

The Faber Companion to 20th Century Pop Music book covers the major players in the vast history of popular music in the twentieth century. With varied entries covering everything from bebop to western swing by way of psychedelic rock, Phil Hardy\'s indispensable book maps out a stimulating and informative cultural history of the century in popular music.

The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available

An incomparable guide to the thousands of characters, from humble artisan to lofty genius, who people the unfolding history of music, this volume brings together all the pertinent biographical information about composers, performers, music theorists, and instrument makers from the days of praise chants to the bop and pop of today. A long-awaited companion to The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, and compiled with the same meticulous scholarship and delight in detail, this biographical dictionary emphasizes classical and art music, but also gives ample attention to jazz and blues, rock and pop, and hymns and showtunes across the ages - with unusual care devoted to coverage of the twentieth century.

Audio

Canadian Music Centre Library Unrestricted Resource Resource contains audio

Use this search interface to find scores available for loan, rental and/or for purchase from the Canadian Music Centre (CMC). Also, listen and view sample works and music by CMC's Associate Composers. This site requires that you create a free user account.

Music Division - Library and Archives Canada Unrestricted Resource

Within the music collections of Library and Archives Canada, you can discover the personal files of prominent artists such as Glenn Gould and Oscar Peterson, books, sheet music, and a wide array of Canadian historical sound recordings. We also maintain the Canadian Music Periodical Index, giving users access to an index of articles from Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines dating from the late-19th century to the present day.

Video

Films on Demand Videos (Music) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only

Here is a selection of music related videos:

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