Musical Canada
Words and Music Honouring Helmut Kallmann
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Initial publish date
- Dec 1988
- Category
- History & Criticism
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781442651784
- Publish Date
- Dec 1988
- List Price
- $37.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442633469
- Publish Date
- Dec 1988
- List Price
- $41.95
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Description
The foremost historian of Canadian music and musical life, Helmut Kallmann is the inspiration for this volume. Its twenty-three contributions, written by prominent composers and writers representing many different regions and both national languages, present a cross-section of current work in historical research, bibliography, analysis, criticism, and creative composition.
Among the subjects covered are bibliographical and historian research on recent musical findings from New France and on early musical activities in various Canadian cities and regions; critical appraisals of Canadian composers and performers; and surveys of Canadian musical organizations and their programs. Four short compositions have been written especially for the volume. The title is drawn from two early Canadian musical periodicals, the English-language Musical Canada and the French-language Le Canada musical. As those journals did for their time, so this volume provides a contemporary overview of Canadian music and music scholarship.
About the authors
John Beckwith’s thirty-eight years with the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, included seven as its dean and five as founding director of its Institute for Canadian Music. Among his compositions are four operas and many orchestral, choral, chamber, and solo works. A frequent contributor to Canadian and foreign music journals, he is the author of Music Papers (1997) and In Search of Alberto Guerrero (WLU Press, 2006).
Since 1972 Brian Cherney has been on the staff of the Faculty of Music (now the Schulich School of Music) at McGill University, where he teaches composition at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. His extensive compositional output includes orchestral, choral, and instrumental music. His monograph on the Canadian composer Harry Somers was published in 1975.
Frederick A. Hall is the former Associate Vice-President at McMaster University and Chairman of the Department of Music at McMaster University.
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Mapping Canada's Music
Selected Writings of Helmut Kallmann
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Memoirs of a Canadian Composer
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Essays on His Life and Music
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Librettos for Operas and Other Musical Works
John Beckwith
Music Papers: Articles and Talks By a Canadian Composer 1964-1994