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Regulations governing all Music programs can be found on the academic calendar, including:
In most cases, students should rent instruments required for technique classes directly from Long & McQuade. Rental of instruments may cost between $25 and $300 per six-week period, per instrument. If you have your own instrument and it is satisfactory to the instructor, you may use it ainstead of renting one. You must have an instrument for the first class.
Students may, in discussion with their studio instructor or as assigned by an ensemble director, use an instrument owned by the Faculty of Music. In such cases, students will be charged a rental fee of $50 per term (fall, winter, spring). If the instrument is returned damaged beyond normal wear and tear, a repair fee of $500 will be charged in lieu of putting down a damage deposit ahead of time.
Please see Maria Kouznetsova in A508 if you are assigned a faculty-owned instrument.
Texts, score paper, and stationery supplies may be purchased from the Laurier Bookstore in the Fred Nichols Campus Centre. Lists of required books for courses are posted on the bookstore website.
Note: the Faculty of Music cannot supply students with office supplies.
Due to copyright regulations, students are not permitted to bring photocopied music to performances or juries. Students are permitted to make one photocopy of a piece for their personal use.
Students may use their OneCard with most campus photocopiers. The Faculty of Music’s photocopier is not available for student use and staff will not copy music for you. Photocopying services are available in The Hub.
The Library's music librarian Greg Sennema is available to help you navigate the Library's collections and resources, and to assist you in your research.
Library: 4th Floor
All musical scores and music for one to three performers are located on the fourth floor of the Library, which is also the location of the Music Ensemble Collection. As soon as you can, acquaint yourself with the different categories of scores that are located on the stacks. In addition to the scores arranged by medium (string quartets, songs, symphonies), there are collections of the complete works of selected composers (e.g. Chopin, Wagner, Bach, Haydn, Palestrina, Schoenberg, etc.), as well as a growing selection of Canadian and BIPOC composers (e.g., Violet Archer, Tania León, Scott Joplin, etc.). There are also books on harmony, theory, performance, composers, etc. located on this floor.
The Library's collection of audio recordings, whether on CD or through a streaming service such as Naxos, are all findable through an Omni search.
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