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Can't find the recording you are looking for? Search directly in our main streaming platform, Naxos Music Library. If you are looking for physical media, Novanet searches our CDs and some but not all of our LP records. Still having trouble? Contact the Music Library for help!

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Looking for Mount Allison Department of Music recordings?

All Mount Allison concert recordings on CDs (since 2002) are searchable in Novanet. Earlier recordings on cassette tape and reel-to-reel tape can be searched using our concert recording index:

Mount Allison Concert Recordings
An index to the music recorded since 1980 on audiocassette or compact disc of Department of Music concerts by faculty, guests, departmental ensembles, and students. Concert programs are included with each recording. Recordings are available in the Alfred Whitehead Music Library.

You can search for scores in Novanet.

After running your search with the composer and title of a work, use the Resource Type filter on the left side and limit to "Scores". (You may have to expand the list of resource types by clicking Show More.

Can't find the score you are looking for? Check one of our digital scores services like the Classical Scores Library, IMSLP, or nkoda (contact the Music Library for access). Still having trouble? Contact the Music Library for help!

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Sheet Music Collection (Alfred Whitehead Music Library, Mount Allison)
An index to the 7000-piece collection of sheet music in the Music Library. Holdings, not entered into the Libraries’ catalogue, include choral sheet music, popular songs, and pieces of classical sheet music organized by type (either keyboard, solo vocal, or instrumental pieces).

Naxos Music Library

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

Oxford Music Online

Classical Scores Library

Medici.tv

New arrivals

The First-Year Music Major: strategies for success

Major Labels: a history of popular music in seven genres

Peer Mentoring in Music Education: developing effective student leadership

Song of a Nation: the untold story of Canada's national anthem

Expanding the canon : Black composers in the music theory classroom

Ludwig Van Beethoven: The piano sonatas

Putting It Together: how Stephen Sondheim and I created Sunday in the park with George

The War on Music: reclaiming the twentieth century

Emma and Claude Debussy: the biography of a relationship

The Temple of Fame and Friendship: portraits, music, and history in the C.P.E. Bach circle

Disaster Songs As Intangible Memorials in Atlantic Canada

The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance, and Musical Theater

Sixty Years: the rise of Canadian choral music at home and abroad

In the field : the art of field recording

Sampling Politics: music and the geocultural

The Jukebox Musical: an interpretive history

The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music Since 1900

Musics with and after Tonality

Introduction to Digital Music with Python Programming

A Women's History of the Beatles

The Piano: a history in 100 pieces

Sondheim in Our Time and His

Loving Music till It Hurts

Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good

Hours
Research Help

Winter Term Hours (until April 12)

Monday–Thursday: 9:00 am to 9:00 pm (closed from 4–5 on Wednesdays for Collegium)
Friday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Exam hours (April 13–22)

Monday–Friday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Saturday & Sunday: Closed

Requests for music library materials outside of open hours can be made using the library catalogue.

For all other inquiries, please contact musiclibrary@mta.ca

If you have a research question, please email us at musiclibrary@mta.ca, contact Gavin Goodwin, Creative Arts Librarian, or contact the Research Help Desk at infodesk@mta.ca.

Phone: 506 364-2561

Email: musiclibrary@mta.ca

Find us: Lower floor, Marjorie Young Bell Conservatory of Music, 134 Main Street Sackville, New Brunswick

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Music Subject Guide
This guide is designed to help you find resources and assist in research for topics in Music.
Useful Databases for Music
Find music reference sources, journal articles, streaming audio, music scores online, and more!
Journal Finder
Music Department Publications
Explore digitized archival materials from the Department of Music, including concert and recital programs dating from 1967–2009.
Mount Allison Concert Recordings
An index to the music recorded since 1980 on audiocassette or compact disc of Department of Music concerts by faculty, guests, departmental ensembles, and students. Concert programs are included with each recording. Recordings are available in the Alfred Whitehead Music Library.
Sheet Music Collection
An index to the 7000-piece collection of sheet music in the Music Library. Holdings, not entered into the Libraries’ catalogue, include choral sheet music, popular songs, and pieces of classical sheet music organized by type (either keyboard, solo vocal, or instrumental pieces).