[BCMA] Sheet music collections

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Burnaby Village Museum has been offered a collection of 70 pieces of sheet music. When I did a quick search of the database I discovered that we already have several hundred pieces of sheet music in the collection. Some of it has delightful cover illustrations and are visually very intersting but what is the importance of the musical score?

Is their anyone who knows of a knowledgable source about sheet music?

Is there an archive or other collection in British Columbia that makes a specialty of musical material?

We have scanned the covers of a number of music sheets (because they look nice) but is that the most important information to be had?

>From my point of view it would be good to thin out this collection. I am looking for the best criteria to assess what we have.

TomG

Tom Gooden
Assistant Curator
Burnaby Village Museum
6501 Deer Lake Ave.
Burnaby, BC, V5G 3T6
Tel: 604.297.4559 Fax: 604.297.4557
tom.gooden at burnaby.ca<mailto:tom.gooden at burnaby.ca>
www.burnabyvillagemusuem.ca<http://www.burnabyvillagemusuem.ca/>

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