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Welcome to the Alfred Whitehead Music Library!

Novanet: Start your research here.

Quick search for books, ebooks, articles, scores, recordings & more

Looking for a specific musical work?
Tip: Search using composer name and title words. Example: mozart AND nozze (with AND in upper case).

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You can search for recordings in Novanet.

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.

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

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

The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music Since 1900

Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good

Songs Remembered in Exile

Teaching Instrumental Music in Canadian Schools

Theatres of Belief: Music and conversion in the early modern city

Being True to Works of Music

Music Cognition: the basics

Listening to the Fur Trade: Soundways and music in the British North American fur trade, 1760–1840

The German Symphony between Beethoven and Brahms

Heinrich Schenker`s Conception of Harmony

Music Composition in the 21st Century: a practical guide for the New Common Practice

Brahms in the Priesthood of Art: Gender and Art Religion in the Nineteenth-Century German Musical Imagination

Music in the Baroque

Music in the Medieval West

Orpheus in the Academy : Monteverdi's First Opera and the Accademia Degli Invaghiti

Americaland: Where Country & Western Met Rock 'n' Roll

Brahms' Symphonies

Stravinsky in Context

Experimentations: John Cage in Music, Art, and Architecture

Opera in Performance: analyzing the performative dimension of opera productions

Hours
Research Help

Fall Hours (until December 9)

Monday–Thursday: 9:00 am to 9:00 pm
Friday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm

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

Exam & Holiday Hours (December 10 – January 9)

Exam Hours (December 10–18)
Monday–Friday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Saturday & Sunday: Closed

Winter Holidays (December 19–January 1)
Closed

January 2–8
Monday–Friday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Saturday & Sunday: Closed

January 9
Regular term hours resume

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 Bell Young Conservatory of Music, 134 Main Street Sackville, New Brunswick

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Alfred Whitehead Music Library
Lower floor, Marjorie Young Bell Conservatory of Music
134 Main Street, Sackville, NB

506 364-2561

Subjects: Classics, Fine Arts, Music, Visual and Material Culture Studies

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).