The Canadian Music Centre holds Canada's largest collection of Canadian concert music. The CMC exists to promote the works of its Associate Composers in Canada and around the world.
The Centre makes available on loan 18,000 scores and/or works by almost 700 Canadian contemporary music composers through its lending library. The CMC sells more than 900 CD titles featuring music of its Associate Composers and other Canadian independent recording producers.
The Centre also offers an on-demand printing and binding service, music repertoire consultations, and is easily accessible through five regional centres across Canada, as well as through its website. The CMC also engages in a number of national outreach projects, is digitizing all its scores and works, conducts research, and administers several awards. The Ann Southam Audio Archive, administered by the CMC, holds the largest cumulative collection of recorded Canadian concert works in the world.
The CMC is housed at 837 Davie Street in Vancouver, the University of Calgary music library in Calgary, Chalmers House (20 St. Joseph Street) in Toronto, 416 McGill Street (an Old Montreal heritage site) in Montreal, and at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick.
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