Canadian Music
Resources for researching current and historical music in Canada
Online Resources
- The Canadian Encyclopedia: Music in CanadaA featured collection from the Canadian Encyclopedia, including videos, articles, and educational support material. Not exhaustive, but further searching is possible.
- Canadian Music Periodical IndexThe Canadian Music Periodical Index (CMPI) is an index of articles from Canadian music periodicals. The CMPI database includes over 37,000 entries on articles dating from the late-19th century to 2011. Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines are represented here, almost 200 of which are currently active and continue to be indexed. The CMPI database focusses on articles and news items touching on various aspects of music in Canada. In addition, since 1999, significant articles published in Canadian periodicals about international music and musicians have been added to the index.
- Canadian Reference CentreCanadian Reference Centre combines Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires, and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full text content available to Canadian libraries. This database includes leading Canadian periodicals and international (U.S. and U.K.) periodicals in full text; full text reference books.
- Canadian Research IndexCanadian Research Index focuses on periodicals covering Canada and Canadian issues in general reference arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, sciences and current affairs. This index consists of depository publications of research value issued by federal, provincial , and territorial governments. Also includes hard-to-find non-depository publications; scientific and technical reports; policy, social economic and political reports; Statistics Canada monographs and serials.
- Canadiana OnlineCanadiana online is a full-text searchable database that includes books, journals and government publications documenting Canadian History. The e-book collection, spans three and a half centuries of Canadian documentary history, holds rich primary materials exploring a wide range of subjects and disciplines. The Serials collection includes a wide range of daily and weekly newspapers, specialized journals, and mass-market magazines, as well as city directories and annual reports from churches, schools, and corporations. Specialized publications include trade or industry journals as well as many men’s, women’s, student’s and children’s popular magazines.
On the shelves
Canadian Music of the Twentieth Century by George Proctor
ISBN: 1487579314Publication Date: 2019This book is a practical guide to Canadian classical music of the twentieth century; it includes extensive lists of scores and recordings, arranged chronologically by performance medium.Contemporary Musical Expressions in Canada by Anna Hoefnagels (Editor); Judith Klassen (Editor); Sherry Johnson (Editor)
Call Number: ML3563.6 .C68 2019ISBN: 9780773558809Publication Date: 2020-01-16Music and dance in Canada today are diverse and expansive, reflecting histories of travel, exchange, and interpretation and challenging conceptions of expressive culture that are bounded and static. Reflecting current trends in ethnomusicology, Contemporary Musical Expressions in Canada examines cultural continuity, disjuncture, intersection, and interplay in music and dance across the country. Essays reconsider conceptual frameworks through which cultural forms are viewed, critique policies meant to encourage crosscultural sharing, and address ways in which traditional forms of expression have changed to reflect new contexts and audiences. From North Indian kathak dance, Chinese lion dance, early Toronto hip hop, and contemporary cantor practices within the Byzantine Ukrainian Church in Canada to folk music performances in twentieth-century Quebec, Gaelic milling songs in Cape Breton, and Mennonite songs in rural Manitoba, this collection offers detailed portraits of contemporary music practices and how they engage with diverse cultural expressions and identities.Music in Canada by Elaine Keillor
Call Number: ML205 .K45 2006ISBN: 9780773530126Publication Date: 2006-09-25Kwakwaka'wakw welcome songs, an aria from Joseph Quesnel's 1808 opera Lucas et Cécile, rubbaboos (a combination of elements from First Peoples, French, and English music), the Tin Pan Alley hits of Shelton Brooks, and the contemporary work of Claude Vivier and Blue Rodeo all dance together in Canada's rich musical heritage. Elaine Keillor offers an unprecedented history of Canadian musical expressions and their relationship to Canada's great cultural and geographic diversity. A survey of "musics" in Canada - the country's multiplicity of musical genres and rich heritage - is complemented by forty-three vignettes highlighting topics such as Inuit throat games, the music of k.d. lang, and orchestras in Victoria. Music in Canada illuminates the past but also looks to the future to examine the context within which Canadian music began and continues to develop.Music in Canada: A Research and Information Guide by Carl Morey
Call Number: ML120 .C3 M67 1997ISBN: 0815316038Publication Date: 1997Although limited to materials predating the guide's 1997 publication, useful resources related to music and musicians in Canada are presented, with 900 annotated entries organized under 13 topics. Reflecting a variety of music in Canadian society including music derived from the European tradition, First Nations and Inuit music, jazz and popular works, folk and ethnic music, education, research and bibliographical materials.Canadian Music by Beverley Diamond (Editor); Robert Witmer (Editor)
Call Number: ML205 .C36 1994ISBN: 1551300311Publication Date: 1998This volume contains both reprints of articles and new essays about specific aspects of the social history of Canadian music. Designed for courses in Canadian music history, it brings together a body of interdisciplinary research that students often overlook within their specific foci of the individual areas. Studies of Euro-Canadian classical music and jazz are integrated with studies of traditional and popular music, thereby acknowledging that these domains, while tenaciously separated in university curricula, are interconnected. Many of the articles focus on the experiential rather than on objectified works of art; the processes of creating and using music are emphasized.
National Organizations
- Canadian Electroacoustic CommunityThe Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) is Canada’s official national association for electroacoustic practices. Since its founding in 1986, the CEC has dedicated its resources to supporting and promoting the ever-expanding field of practices comprising this progressive art form. Advocating the widest possible interpretation of the umbrella term “electroacoustic”, the CEC understands this field of creative activity to encompass a divergent range of studio and live practices, from acousmatic and musique concrète to circuit bending and hardware hacking to sound art and videomusic, but also embracing live coding and glitch, soundscape and acoustic ecology, electronic and tape music, sound design and live audiovisual, turntablism and generative, as well as any combination or permutation thereof.
- Canadian League of ComposersThe Canadian League of Composers (CLC) speaks for the interests of Canadian composers. We offer professional development opportunities and resources to members, including a schedule of suggested commissioning fees, and we use advocacy and partnerships to foster an environment in which Canadian art music is highly valued. The CLC was founded in 1951, and celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2021, currently representing over 550 members across Canada. The CLC ICSM committee functions as the Canadian Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM), connecting Canadian composers to a global composition community.
- Canadian Music CentreThe Canadian Music Centre has been supporting, preserving and celebrating the works of Canadian composers since 1959. As proud and passionate advocates, we offer innovative resources for discovering, exploring, listening to and playing Canadian music online and in five regional hubs. We maintain an extensive archive of scores and works by Canadian composers accessible online and through our lending library as well as a publishing and repertoire consultation service. The award-winning Centrediscs label offers high quality/professional commercial and archival recordings.
- SOCANThe Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is Canada’s largest member-based rights management organization. We connect more than 4 million creators and publishers worldwide, and ensure that they are paid for their work. We issue licenses for the public playing and performance, communication, display and reproduction of music and visual art. The money we collect from licenses is distributed as royalties to the rights holders who have earned them in Canada and worldwide.
- Orchestras CanadaOrchestras Canada is the national association for Canadian orchestras. We offer workshops, conferences, and on-line exchange to connect orchestras across the country. Through research and analysis, we quantify and contextualize orchestras’ many contributions to their communities. Reports and archived webinars are available to view and download regardless of membership.
- Canada Council for the ArtsCanada Council for the Arts is Canada’s public arts funder, contributing to the vibrancy of a creative and diverse arts and literary scene through our grants, services, prizes and payments to Canadian artists and arts organizations. Extensive research is available, with content in the Research Library extending back to 1998. Report and research topics include financial impacts of arts and culture work, geographical studies, data on accessibility and equity strategies.
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