Collection of scores published pre-1924 from the University of Toronto Music Library. Part of an ongoing project (started 2021) to digitize public domain scores in the library. So far, the project includes digitized secular vocal scores (M1497-M1998), sacred vocal scores (M1999-M2199), and orchestra and string orchestra scores (M1000-M1160).
Canadian Sheet Music from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Music Library.
This collection consists of programmes from events at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. Performers include faculty members, students, student ensembles, and guest artists, performing at one of the Faculty's theatres (Walter Hall and McMillan Theatre), and at other University venues. The complete Music Library Collection of Faculty Events includes audio and video recordings, in addition to the programmes that you find here. For the complete collection of faculty recordings, visit...
Kathleen Parlow, violinist and teacher, was born in Calgary, 20 September 1890 and died in Oakville, Ont., 19 August 1963. She completed her studies with Leopold Auer at St Petersburg [Leningrad] Conservatory, made her professional debut in Berlin in 1907 and then toured world wide. Returning permanently to Canada in 1941, she taught at the Toronto Conservatory and founded The Canadian Trio, and the Parlow String Quartet.
The Harvey Olnick Rare Book Room contains over 2,600 volumes exemplifying the history of music, music editing, performing, and printing—from liturgical manuscripts and early printed treatises; to first editions of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Gershwin; to early Canadian sheet music and tune books. A significant number of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century opera full scores, with particular strength in the French repertoire, complements the large libretto holdings of the Thomas Fisher Rare...
Music - University of Toronto
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1890
1890
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Seward, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen), 1835-1902; Unseld, B. C. (Benjamin Carl), 1843-1923
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Music - University of Toronto
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5000 musical terms; a complete dictionary of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, French, German, Spanish, English, and such other words, phrases, abbreviations, and signs as are to be found in the works of Auber, Beethoven, Bertini ... and other eminent musical composers. The whole including the celebrated dictionaries of Busby, Czerny, Grassineau, and Hamilton. Arr., rev. and corr. To which is added a treatise on playing the organ or pianoforte by figures, etc
1851
1851
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Adams, John S. (John Stowell), d. 1893
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Topics: Music -- Dictionaries, Dictionaries, Polyglot
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Topic: Saxophone -- Methods
New Music Concerts (NMC) is a performing arts organization, established in Toronto in 1971 by Norma Beecroft (president) and Robert Aitken (artistic director) and they started an annual series of concerts in 1972. NMC programs feature an international array of composers and performers with composers often conducting or performing in their own works. They have commissioned numerous new compositions by Canadian composers. The NMC archives are held at the University of Toronto Music Library. This...
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Topic: Choirs (Music) -- Training of
Gwen Duchemin
Topics: Harmony, Music theory, Music
Bibliography: p. [v]-vi
Topic: Music -- Dictionaries
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1905
1905
by
Lambert, L. A. (Louis Aloisius), 1835-1910
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Topics: Songs, Provençal, Ballads, Provençal, Folk songs, Provençal, Lullabies
Music - University of Toronto
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1910
1910
by
Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949; Sophocles; Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929
texts
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Music Library copy 1: gift of the Estate of Robert A. Fenn
Topic: Operas
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Topics: Sea songs, Folklore of the sea
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Topics: Phonetics, Singing and voice culture, Language, Modern -- Pronunciation
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Topics: Bible, Psalms (Music)
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1889
1889
by
Avenel, Paul, 1823-1902
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Music - University of Toronto
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1913
1913
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Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949; Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929; Molière, 1622-1673; Kalisch, Alfred, 1863-1933
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Music Library c.1: gift of the Estate of Robert A. Fenn
Topics: Operas, Ariadne (Greek mythology)
"Organ bibliography": p. 357-358
Topics: Organ, Organists -- Great Britain
Music - University of Toronto
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1905
1905
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Chaikovskii, Modest Ilich, 1850-1916; Newmarch, Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson, 1857-1940
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"Chronological list of Tchaikovsky's compositions from 1866-1893": p. 726-749
Topic: Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893
Music - University of Toronto
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1920
1920
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Forkel, Johann Nikolaus, 1749-1818; Terry, Charles Sanford, 1864-1936
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Topic: Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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Topics: Music, genealogy
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Topics: Music -- Manuals, text-books, etc, Piano -- Methods, Music -- Examinations, questions, etc
Includes index
Topics: Motion picture music -- Instruction and study, Musical accompaniment
Vol. [5-15] has title in German: Universal-Handbuch der Musikliteratur
Topic: Music
Music - University of Toronto
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1922
1922
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Key, Pierre V. R. (Pierre Van Rensselaer), 1872-1945; Zirato, Bruno
texts
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Topic: Caruso, Enrico, 1873-1921
Vol. [5-15] has title in German: Universal-Handbuch der Musikliteratur
Topic: Music
Reprinted from the Ladies' home journal
Topic: Piano -- Instruction and study
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Topics: Feudalism -- Greece Peloponnesus History Sources, Franks -- Greece Peloponnesus History Sources,...
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Topics: Caruso, Enrico, 1873-1921, Singing -- Methods
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1811
1811
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Capelle, Pierre Adolphe, 1772-1851; C***
texts
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2,508
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1905
1905
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Jaques-Dalcroze, Émile, 1865-1950
texts
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Unacc. songs for 1-2 voices
Topic: Songbooks, French
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Topic: Piano -- Methods
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Topics: Violin -- History, Violin -- Construction, Violin makers
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1529
1529
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Catholic Church
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cxcvj leaves of music
Topics: Gregorian chants, Gregorian chants
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Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875
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[English] Lamb of God, that takest away our sins, / Have compassion, have compassion upon us. / O thou Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, / Have compassion, have compassion, have compassion upon us. / Lamb of God, O Lamb of God, Thou that bearest the sins of the world, / Lamb of God, O Lamb of God, Thou that takest away all the sins of the world, / O Lamb of God, thy peace be with us, Lamb of God, O Lamb of God, Thy peace with us. / Thy peace, Thy peace ever be with us....
Topic: sheet music
Source: folio
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1905
1905
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Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965; Gillot, Hubert, 1875-
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Bibliographical footnotes
Topic: Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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1913
1913
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Knosp, Gaston, 1874-1942
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Topic: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
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1886
1886
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Verrimst, V. F
texts
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Topics: Violin -- Construction, Varnish and varnishing
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1722
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Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 1683-1764
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RISM B: VI, 685
Topic: Harmony
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Topic: Piano -- Methods
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Topics: Music -- Dictionaries, Music -- Bio-bibliography
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Topics: Violin makers, Violin
Music - University of Toronto
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1905
1905
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Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883; Wesendonk, Mathilde, 1828-1902; Ellis, William Ashton, d. 1919
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Includes biblbiographical references and index
Vol. [5-15] has title in German: Universal-Handbuch der Musikliteratur
Topic: Music
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1901
1901
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Gedalge, André, 1856-1926
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No more published
Topic: Fugue
Music manuscripts from the J. Churchill Arlidge fonds at the University of Toronto Music Library. Arlidge (1849-1913) was a flutist, organist, teacher, and composer. He moved to Toronto, Ontario from England in late 1874 and stayed for about a year, performing as a solo flutist with F.H. Torrington, acting as the first organist and choirmaster at Toronto's Carlton Street Methodist Church, and teaching. Arlidge permanently settled with his family in the Toronto area...
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Topic: Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
Arthur Plettner and Isa McIlwraith
Topics: Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Music -- Germany 18th century History and criticism
No more published
Topics: Rasputin, Grigori Efimovich, ca. 1870-1916, Pilgrims and pilgrimages
Music - University of Toronto
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1900
1900
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Schindler, Anton, 1795-1864; Moscheles, Ignaz, 1794-1870; Döring, Heinrich
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Includes bibliographical references
Topic: Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
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1780
1780
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Laborde, M. de (Jean-Benjamin), 1734-1794
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"Choix de chansons mises à quatre parties" (score, with text for soprano only): v. 2, 178 p. at end. "Parties séparées des chansons à 4 parties" are separately paged at ends of other vols., i.e. alto part, v. 1; tenor part, v. 3; bass part, v. 4
Topic: Music
Doreen Hall
Topic: Tonic sol-fa
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1913
1913
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Bohm, Carl, 1844-1920
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[German] [i] Still wie die Nacht, tief wie das Meer, / soll deine Liebe sein! / Still wie die Nacht, und tief wie das Meer, / soll deine Liebe, deine Liebe sein, / soll deine Liebe sein! [ii] Wenn du mich liebst so wie ich dich, / will ich dein eigen sein. / Heiss, wie der Stahl und fest, wie der Stein / soll deine Liebe, deine Liebe sein, / soll deine Liebe sein! [English] [i] Still as the night, deep as the sea / Should love, thy love ere [word crossed out] be! / Still as the night, and deep...
Topic: sheet music
Source: folio
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Topic: Musicians -- United States Directories
Music Library c.1: Gift of Mrs. G. Coutts
Topic: Harmony
Vol. [5-15] has title in German: Universal-Handbuch der Musikliteratur
Topic: Music
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Topic: Composition (Music)
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
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Topic: sheet music
Source: folio
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Topic: Piano -- Instruction and study
xi, 559 p
Topics: Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics, Music -- Psychology
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1869
1869
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Fétis, François-Joseph, 1784-1871
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Includes bibliography
Topic: Music
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1894
1894
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Beauguier, Charles, 1833-1916
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With the music (unaccompanied melodies) of about two thirds of the songs
Topic: Folk songs, French
Each volume also has special title-page
Topics: Music, Musicians
Music - University of Toronto
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1900
1900
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Grove, George, 1820-1900, ed; Fuller-Maitland, J. A. (John Alexander), 1856-1936; Wodehouse, Adela Harriet Sophia (Bagot), 1854-1921. [from old catalog]
texts
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4 v. and 23 cm
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Topic: Music
Includes bibliographical references and index
Topic: Organists, English
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800
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Topic: sheet music
Source: folio
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Topics: Hymns, English, Tune-books, Anthems
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Topic: Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
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1780
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Laborde, M. de (Jean-Benjamin), 1734-1794
texts
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"Choix de chansons mises à quatre parties" (score, with text for soprano only): v. 2, 178 p. at end. "Parties séparées des chansons à 4 parties" are separately paged at ends of other vols., i.e. alto part, v. 1; tenor part, v. 3; bass part, v. 4
Topic: Music
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