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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.

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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).

Music, piety, and propaganda : the soundscapes of counter-reformation Bavaria

Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France

Kate van Orden examines noble education in the arts to show how music contributed to cultural and social transformation in early modern French society

Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation

A comprehensive analysis of musical Holocaust representations in the Western art music tradition

Rubble Music: Occupying the Ruins of Postwar Berlin, 1945-1950

Abby Anderton explores the classical music culture of postwar Berlin, analyzing archival documents, period sources, and musical scores to identify the sound of civilian suffering after urban catastrophe

Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action in and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Arts of Engagement focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools

Out of the Depths: The Experiences of Mi'kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia

Knockwood speaks to twenty-one survivors of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School about their reaction to the apology by the Canadian government in 2008

Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies

A critical response to what has been called the "whiteness of sound studies," Dylan Robinson evaluates how decolonial practices of listening emerge from increasing awareness of our listening positionality