The McGill Sheet Music Collection consists of approximately 6,000 musical scores and includes popular and classical pieces from the 19th and 20th centuries.
The collection features the French and English popular song collection of Quebec singer Roger Doucet.
Provides information from many of the world’s hire/rental and sale catalogues
Use the site to locate information about composers, title availability and publishers and to communicate directly with distributors to receive rental/sales quotes and place orders
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Allows users to locate tunes rapidly from a wide selection of fake books published by Hal Leonard, Chuck Sher, Frank Mantooth, Warner Bros, and Wise Publications
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Worldwide library holdings of manuscripts and early printed editions
RISM: Répertoire International des Sources Musicales
Series A/II, Music Manuscripts after 1600; Series A/I, Individual Prints before 1800; and a portion of B/I, Recueils imprimés, XVIe-XVIIe siècles (Printed collections of the 16th-17th centuries), covering the years 1500-1550.
Use the Advanced search screen to search by publisher, plate number, A/I or B/I number, and musical incipit (using an on-screen keyboard).
Microfilm collections held at the Marvin Duchow Music Library
The Music Library holds many Renaissance music manuscripts and prints on microfilm. Consult these guides to discover the manuscripts and prints held at the Library: