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Black, Indigenous, people of colour (BIPOC) musicians

Use this guide to explore the musical traditions, compositions, and scholarship of Black, Indigenous, people of colour (BIPOC) individuals.

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Orchestral

  • Daniels' Orchestral Music Online 
    • Orchestral music finder tool: provides information about thousands of works 
    • Advanced search options filter by composer’s nationality, ethnicity, and gender 
    • Provides links to online perusals scores, program notes, and recordings 
  • Diverse Composers of Orchestral Music
    • List of works for string, chamber, and full orchestra, organized into different tabs (women composers, composers of colour)
    • Repertoire list from …and we were heard
  • Latin Orchestral Music
    • List of orchestral music from Latin America and the Caribbean

Percussion

Strings

Vocal

Winds

  • No Broken Links
    • The directory highlights solo and chamber music that includes flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone, and/or horn (in any instrumental combination) by composers from communities who continue to face marginalization in the field of classical music and new music
  • Woodwind Quintet Music by Latin American Composers
    • Working document of woodwind quintets, organized by country

Location and contacts

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Music Library Staff
Contact:
Marvin Duchow Music Library
Elizabeth Wirth Music Building
3rd floor - 527 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1E3
514-398-4695
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Subjects: Music

Resource key

  • McGill users only
  • Open access resource
  • Free resource
  • In-library use
  • Catalogue record

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