The school's primarary facilities were located on Henry Street, but it also utilized other buildings in various parts of the city.
In addition to courses in music, the school also offered classes in ballet and Scottish highland dance.
[1] The MAM was founded in 1934 by organist and conductor Harry Dean[2] who was the school's sole director.
He left the HCM after a disagreement with that school's board of directors, taking many of their students and faculty to start the MAM.
In 1935, Canada's first courses in the psychology of music were taught there by Cyril O'Brien.