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Series consists of the following autographs, collected by Florence L. Clarke, first wife of Henry John Cody, president of University of Toronto (1932-1945): Emma Abbott (1882); Teresa Carreño (1883); Emma Juch (1885); Clara Louise Kellogg (1885); Sofia Scalchi-Lolli; Ede Remenyi; Marcella Sembrich (1883); Potta (1882); Blatchford Kavanagh; Etelka Gerster Gardini (1882); Gabriella Boema; Emma Thursby (1883); Eugenia Pappenheim; Helena Modjeske (1882); Camilla Urn (1883); Mary F. Scott-Siddons (1880); Kate Claxton (1882); Zelia Trebelli; Minnie Hauk (1882); Rose Coghlan (1882); Rafael Joseffy; August Wellesley; Geneviève Ward (1882); five other illegible signatures.

Series consists of letters to J. Churchill Arlidge concerning his performances; family correspondence; Arlidge's wedding certificate; and a jewel pendant that belonged to his mother.

Series consists of promotional and personal photographs of J. Churchill Arlidge, his family, and groups to which he belonged, including the Independent Order of Foresters (Arlidge was the High Organist); Christ Church at Deer Park, Toronto, Ontario; and a Grand Jury in 1907, which was appointed to investigate and make recommendations regarding public institutions and services in Toronto.

Series consists of materials created by J. Churchill Arlidge in the course of his teaching and performance career, including sheet music with added vocal parts, written in his own hand, a practice record booklet that he published in Toronto in 1907, and the script and program for a concert that he gave in the 1880s.

Series consists of a promotional booklet and poster, which feature the same photograph and include excerpts of newspaper reviews of his performances. Series also includes his wooden conductor's baton.

Series consists of manuscript scores and parts for original compositions and arrangements by J. Churchill Arlidge, as well as manuscripts in Arlidge's hand for music by other composers, written out for performance.

Series consists of 6 volumes of sheet music used by Edith McConica for silent films in Luseland, Saskatchewan (1920-1928). Includes the following volumes, some of which include McConica's annotations:

1. Ketèlby, Albert W., A.W. Owen., W. Aletter, F.J. Liftl. New moving picture music. London: Bosworth & Co., Ltd., 1916
2. Ansell, John. The "Hawkes Photo-Play" Series : Piano Albums, no. 7. London, Paris, Toronto: Hawkes & Son, 1925.
   • no. 37, A street in Algiers
   • no. 38, In Pekin
   • no. 39, Arab dance
   • no. 40, In a Japanese garden
   • no. 41, The Indian juggler
   • no. 42, Egyptian dance
3. Norton, Harry. [Collection of topical pieces]. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1928.
   • no. 1, Hurry : for general use
   • no. 2, Agitato : for sudden danger, tumult, struggle, etc.
   • no. 4, Mysterioso : for stealthy action, burglary, etc.
   • no. 6, Agitato : for general use
   • no. 8, Hurry : for general use
   • no. 9, Pathétique
   • no. 10, Combat
   • no. 13, Hurry : for general use
   • no. 15, Appassionato : for emotional love scenes
   • no. 17, Dramatic tension
   • no. 19, Doloroso
   • no. 20, Hurry
   • no. 21, Dramatic mysterioso
   • no. 23, Hurry
4. Kempinski, Leo. A. Incidental symphonies : storm hurry. New York City: Photo Play Music Co., 1922.
5. [Collection of short pieces, mostly mounted on cardboard].
   • The brownie's frolic, op. 29, no. 2 / F. Flaxington Harker. Theo. Presser Co., 1923
   • A gloomy tale : in characteristic style, op. 85, no. 4 / R. Krentzlin. Theo. Presser Co., 1923
   • Pygmies' midnight frolic / M.L. Preston. Theo. Presser Co., 1924
   • Dance of the goblins / Bert R. Anthony. Theo. Presser Co., 1919
   • The giant and the elf / Aileen Wier [Dortch]. Theo. Presser Co., 1925
   • The dancing bear [Indian theme] / Montague Ewing. [Theo. Presser Co., n.d.]
   • In a haunted cave / Wallace A. Johnson. Theo. Presser Co., 1925
   • Ghosts and goblins / Wallace A. Johnson. Theo. Presser Co., 1925
   • Menuetto in B minor, from op. 78 / F. Schubert. The Etude, November 1926
   • At the movies : the villain / Frank H. Grey. The Etude, February 1927
   • Theme : death and the maiden, quartet in D minor / Franz Schubert. n.p., n.d.
6. PianOrgan film books of incidental music : extracted from the world famous "Berg" and "Cinema" incidental series. New York: Belwin Inc., 1925.
   • Book of misteriosos
   • Book of furiosos and battle music

Series consists of two volumes (listed below) used by Edith McConica when she was learning, and later teaching, piano. Both volumes are annotated by Edith and her children.

1. Czerny, Carl. Praktische Fingerübingen für Piano Solo, op. 802, Heft I. Offenbach am Main: Johann André, [1850].
2. Bilbro, Mathilde. First melody lessons for piano. London, Oakville: The Frederick Harris Co., [193-?].

Series consists of manuscript scores dedicated to, copied for, or copied by Emmy Heim. Scores include repertoire that Heim performed at various recitals and concerts, as well as music written for Heim by students of Arnold Schönberg, who she likely met while performing at his Verein für Privataufführungen, and who—like her—emigrated to the United Kingdom in the 1930s.

Series consists of programs of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1945-1946 concert season. Several programs are missing.

Series consists of programs of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1946-1947 concert season. Several programs are missing.

Series contains sheet music created and/or accumulated by Kathleen Parlow.

Series consists of programs of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1947-1948 concert season. Several programs are missing.

Series consists of programs of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1948-1949 concert season. Several programs are missing.

Series consists of programs of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1949-1950 concert season. Several programs are missing.

Series contains three-dimensional memorabilia objects, including three glass plate negatives from Kathleen Parlow's time in Petersburg; three framed photographs of Parlow's parents[?]; two metal stamps of Parlow with her violin; two framed photographs of Parlow (one as a young child); the National Award in Music medal from the University of Alberta; a family photo album, including a family tree; an Edison cylinder record of Parlow playing Nocturne, Op. 9, no. 2 in E-flat Major by Chopin (recorded 1913); an Edison 78 RPM record of Parlow playing Melodie by Tchaikovsky; and, 2 audio cassettes with recordings of the Parlow String Quartet. Series also includes drawings and watercolours of Kathleen Parlow.

The photographs included in the family album are listed at the front of the album and transcribed here:
1 - Uncle James Hamilton
2 and 3 - Mr. and Mrs. Allan (St. John)
4 - Mrs. Taylor (Allan's daughter)
5 - Nell (Allan's granddaughter)
6 - James Allen
7 - Sisters Allen
8 - Mr. and Mrs. Ross
9 - Mary Jane Sterling (mother's cousin)
10 and 11 - Mr. or Dr. and Mrs. Cooper
12 and 13 - Estabrooks and sister
14 and 15 - "The two Miss Guns"
16 - Uncle Sam
17 - Uncle Johnie
18 - Miss. Everitt
19 - Cousin George
20 and 21 - Rev. and Mrs. Harvey
21 - Annie Howe (niece of Uncle Sam's)
22 - Edgar Thompson
23 and 24 - Deacon and Mrs. Conolly (cousin)
25 and 26 - Mr. and Mrs. Merritt
27 - Major Hartley
28 - Mrs. Twee[...?] (minister's wife)
29 - Mr. Good
30 - Rev. Blakeney
31 - Mrs. Jones
32 - Baby Estabrooks
33 - Mr. Taylor
34 - Nell Taylor
35 - Boardman Wheeler
36 - James Hamilton (uncle)
37 - Cousin George
38 - Minnie Wheeler
39 and 40 - Father and Mother
41 - Miss. Conolly
42 - Mr. Broderick (Auntie Hamilton's brother-in-law)
43 and 44 - Mr. and Mrs. James Wheeler
45 and 46 - Mr. and Mrs. Roberts
47 - another Miss. Conolly
48 - Nellie Allan
49 - Dr. Broderick.

Series consists of programs of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1950-1951 concert season. Several programs are missing.

Series consists of autographed photographs for Dr. Ernesto Vinci of Licia Albanese and Risë Stevens, Alexander Gray, Edward Johnson (with unidentified students), and Wilfrid Pelletier.

Series consists of programs of events hosted or performed by the Faculty of Music during the 1951-1952 concert season. Several programs are missing.

Series consists of examples of notations, particularly neumes and mensural notation. Examples are mostly taken from images included in the book Handbuch der Notationskunde by Johannes Wolf. Wolf was one of Arnold Walter's teachers when he studied musicology at the University of Berlin. Series also includes reproductions of manuscripts included in Storia della musica attraverso l'immagine by Georg Kinsky, Histoire de la musique des origines à la fin du XIVe siècle by Théodore Gérold, and World history of the dance by Curt Sachs; sequences from St. Gallen; illustrated pages from the Codex Manesse, Sachsenspiegel, Psautier de Lothaire, and Las Cantigas de Santa María; and a plate interpreting animal symbols.

Series consists of glass lantern slides of paintings, busts, caricatures, cartoons, and manuscript renderings of musicians, including: Johann Christian Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach, Philip Emmanuel Bach, Wilhelm Friedeman Bach, Notker Balbulus, Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, Countess Therese Brunswick, Frederic Chopin, Arcangelo Corelli, Karl Czerny, Louis Claude Daquin, Christoph Willibald Gluck, George Frideric Handel, Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Sir Ernest MacMillan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Niccolo Paganini, Henry Purcell, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Andrey Razumovsky, Alessandro Scarlatti, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Heinrich Schutz, Antonio Vivaldi, Richard Wagner, and Mathilde Wesendonck. Series also includes slides of locations of significance to some composers (e.g., house in Eisenach where J.S. Bach was born); and reproductions of manuscripts by some of the composers.

Series consists of glass lantern slides of various cathedrals, churches, basilicas, abbeys, and monasteries.

Most locations are in France: Albi Cathedral; Amiens Cathedral; Arles Cathedral; Bayeux Cathedral; Beauvais Cathedral; Bourges Cathedral; Carcassonne Cathedral; Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Reims; Caudebec Cathedral; Cluny Abbey; Coutances Cathedral; Dol Cathedral; Elne Cathedral; Évreux Cathedral; La Trinité, Caen; Le Mans Cathedral; Notre Dame, Chartres; Notre Dame, Paris; Quimper Cathedral; Rodez Cathedral; Rouen Cathedral; Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges; Sainte-Chapelle, Paris; Saint-Étienne, Caen; Saint-Eustache, Paris; Saint-Maclou, Rouen; and Saint-Ouen, Rouen.

Other locations include Rome (Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls; Basilica of Saint Clement; Basilica Papale di San Lorenzo); Prague (Kostel sv. Josefa na Malé Straně; Kostel sv. Václava; Kostel svatého Ignáce; Kostel Panny Marie Vítězné; Kostel svatého Salvátora; Kostel svatého Víta); Leipzig (St. Thomas' Church); Québec (Laval Cathedral); Catalonia, Spain (Monastery of Sant Cugat); and England (Exeter Cathedral; Westminster Abbey).

Series also contains miscellaneous related slides, including examples of Early Christian cathedrals and basilicas and exemplars of French Gothic architecture. Some slides were reproduced from A History of Architecture by Banister Fletcher and Sir Banister Fletcher (published by George Philip & Son, London).

Series consists of glass lantern slides of various opera houses and theatres in Europe, including: Theater an der Wien; Esterhazy; Teatro Communale, Florence; La Scala, Milan; Teatro San Carlo, Naples; Old Dresden State Theatre; State Opera House, Dresden; Bayreuth [Festspielhaus]; Opera Comique, Paris; Findling House, Chelse; Civic Opera House, Chicago; Metropolitan Opera House; and, Bloomington [Theatre, Indiana].

Series consists of glass lantern slides showing images of various instruments. Slides include images of instruments as included in Storia della musica attraverso l'immagine by Georg Kinsky, and Histoire de la musique des origines à la fin du XIVe siècle by Théodore Gérold, as well as reproductions of paintings and other artistic renderings of instruments. Instruments include the theorbo, lute, harp, viola da gamba, viola d'amore, German flute, lyre, guitar, unfretted and fretted clavichords, spinnet, Silberman pianoforte, gravicembalo, and oliphants.

Series consists of glass plate slides of stage designs and settings for particular productions of operas and other stage productions, including: Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven; Wozzeck by Alban Berg; Giunio Bruto by Domenico Cimarosa; Pélleas and Mélisande by Claude Debussy; Orfeo ed Eurydice by Christoph Willibald Gluck; unidentified oratorios and operas by George Frideric Handel; Ballet du roi and Isis by Jean-Baptiste Lully; Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Salome by Richard Strauss; Aida, Don Carlos, La forza del destino, and Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi; and Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Götterdämmerung, and Parsifal* by Richard Wagner.

Stage designers represented in this collection include: Karl Friedrich Schinkel, R.E. Jones, Adolphe Appia, Ludwig Sievert, Panos Aravantinos, Norman Bel Geddes, Salvador Dali, Caspar Neher, Giorgio de Chirico, and Rolf Gérard.

Series consists of programs of events hosted or performed by the Faculty of Music during the 1952-1953 concert season. Several programs are missing.

Series consists of compositions and arrangements by Phil Nimmons, written early in his career before he formed his own group in 1953. Series includes charts for the Ray Norris Quintette, of which Nimmons was a member.

Series consists of lectures notes, predominantly on German Lieder, for lectures and lecture-recitals by Emmy Heim. Some notes are dated and a few include copies of the associated program.

Series consists of programs of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1953-1954 concert season. Several programs are missing.

Series consists of correspondence sent to Emmy Heim from various colleagues and friends, including correspondence E.G. Dentay, Margaret G. Skipworth (Lady Margaret Hall), and Victor Zuckerkandl, as well as some handwritten draft replies by Emmy Heim.

Series consists of a copy of Emmy Heim's obituary by Ronald Hambleton in the Globe and Mail (October 13, 1954); the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto Monthly Bulletin (November 1954) with an obituary written by Sir Ernest MacMillan; and a copy of the publicity photo used by Heim for many of her programs.

Series consists of programs of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1954-1955 concert season. Several programs are missing.

Series consists of programs of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1955-1956 concert season. Several programs are missing.

Series contains digitized copies of readers' reports.

Series consists of programs from performances by Emmy Heim, as well as various programs for performances by Heim's students at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and for performances that she attended by her colleagues.

Series consists of programs of events hosted or performed by the Faculty of Music during the 1956-1957 concert season. Several programs are missing.

Series consists of materials relating to music education in Toronto, including at the Toronto Conservatory of Music and the Toronto College of Music.

Series consists of programs of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1957-1958 concert season. Several programs are missing.

Series consists of compositions and arrangements by Gena Branscombe, including published sheet music with inscriptions from the composer and manuscript copies of scores and parts.

Series contains concert programmes dated from 1939-1958. Programmes reflect performances from Kathleen Parlow as well as the performances of the South Mountain String Quartet, Parlow String Quartet, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Canadian Trio, and many of other performers. Concert programmes are from a variety of locations worldwide including the United States, England, Finland, Belgium, Germany, Poland, and many other locations. Programmes are in black and white and colour. Some programmes have gold gilt edges as well as other visually interesting features.

Series consists of programs of events hosted or performed by the Faculty of Music during the 1958-1959 concert season. Several programs are missing.

Series consists of annotated sheet music and manuscript copies of sheet music in Harry Culley's hand, which were predominantly used for performances by the Black and White Spotters (Harry and Ida Culley's two-piano, four-hands duo). Many pieces include precise timings, as the Culley's frequently performed on radio shows on CKCL, CFRB, and CBC from the 1930s to 1950s. Series also includes some dance band music used by Harry Culley in his positions as conductor of the Royal York Orchestra (1929-1930) and Music Director at the Royal Alexandra Theatre (1948-1955).

Series consists of programs of events hosted or performed by the Faculty of Music during the 1959-1960 concert season. Several programs are missing.

Series consists of method books used by Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) students, but which are not part of the graded series for each instrument. Books based on the requirements of RCM.

Series consists of manuscript scores written before 1960.

Series consists of Kathleen Parlow's diaries for each year from 1905 until 1960, with the exception of 1924, 1927, and 1955-1957, and 4 notebooks. The notebooks include her record catalogue, repertoire lists, handwritten recital programs, and her appointment diary (1905-1941).

Series consists of programs of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1960-1961 concert season. Several programs are missing.

File contains scores, notes, and scripts for electronic music compositions by Myron Schaeffer.