Music

Conservatory students can obtain an associate borrowers card at UVIC (present your Camosun PhotoID at the McPherson Library Loan Desk) and borrow books, scores, Cds, audiotapes, and Vinyl. Associate borrowers cannot borrow videos directly.

Includes scores, music books, and other online resources

Website featuring articles, interviews, performances, and more from Canadian musicians. Links to CBC curated playlists and podcasts.

CBC Radio's sister French station, Radio-Canada, offers streaming of concerts in all genres featuring Quebec and franco-canadian artists, ensembles, and composers.

Online resource dedicated to making Canadian music accessible. Includes loaning library of free scores and recordings of music by Canadian composers. Sheet music available for loan, purchase, or rent.

Library and Archives Canada's Virtual Gramophone is a multimedia website devoted to the early days of Canadian recorded sound, providing an overview of the 78-rpm era in Canada. The database contains information for 78-rpm and cylinder recordings released in Canada from 1900 to 1950, as well as foreign recordings featuring Canadian artists and/or compositions.

Online magazine dedicated to traditional and contemporary World Music. Provides news, reviews, articles, and other resources related to World Music including folk, roots, and various types of global fusion.

NPR's (American National Public Radio) World Music website. Includes articles, reviews, interviews and more.

IMSLP is a virtual library of public domain music scores based on the wiki principle. Users can exchange musical ideas through the site, submit their own compositions, or listen to other people's composition. IMSLP is an ever-growing musical community of music lovers for music lovers.

Aurora is Library & Archives Canada's online catalogue. Aurora's "Sheet Music from Canada's Past" sub-collection provides a selection of sheet music published in Canada before 1921. Includes patriotic and parlour songs, piano pieces, sacred music and novelty numbers, some dating back to the 1700s. Includes Canadian imprints as well as music by Canadians, or about Canada, published internationally.

All the scores have full cataloging and are accessible to the public for free. Basic search with results refinable by composer, subject, material type, or language.

Links to online scores including opera, song, orchestral, choral, chamber music, sound recordings and more.

Comprehensive non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Provides tools and services that promote access to and use of online sheet music collections by scholars, students, and the general public.

Singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician Tom Lehrer has made his lyrics and sheet music freely available in the public domain. Website will be available until December 31, 2024.