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27 Jun, 2025

Happy Pride season! Pride is typically celebrated between June and September and highlights the lives of queer people… read more

16 Jun, 2025

When I first started planning a seminar on Music, Gender, and Sexuality for Winter 2025, I knew I wanted to do something… read more

2 Jun, 2025

June is National Indigenous History Month, and so we are once again highlighting new and old materials in our collection… read more

1 May, 2025

Happy May! We are doing something a little different this month and, like our blogpost in December… read more

Streaming

Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall
Enjoy live concerts in high definition, as well as hundreds of full-length archival recordings, chamber performances, artist interviews, and documentaries.
Ethnographic Sound Archive Online
Over 2,000 hours of previously unpublished historic field recordings from around the world, alongside their supporting field notes and ethnographers’ metadata.
Medici.tv
Discover medici.tv, the largest online collection of classical music, operas and ballets in the world.
Naxos Music Library
Offers streaming access to more than 88,370 CDs with more than 1,287,700 tracks, standard and rare repertoire.
Qwest TV
Qwest TV features a diverse collection of hundreds of concerts and documentaries, with a focus on Jazz, Soul, Funk, Blues, African music, Latin music, Indian music an

Special Collections

Rare Books Collection
The Olnick Rare Book Room contains over 3,000 volumes exemplifying the history of music, music editing, performing, and printing
Music Archives
Archival material documents the creative activity of composers and performers associated with the University and the city.
Sheet Music Collection
This collection includes songs, piano pieces and method books in sheet music format, mostly issued 1800-1950, plus single examples of choral octavo.
Performance Collection
Musical scores for the major ensembles including choral octavos, band and orchestral score & parts and jazz charts.
Digital Collections
Digitized collections from the Music Library. Includes digital exhibits and digitized collections from our archives, rare books collection, and Canadian sheet music.