Flashcards
Who is Chan Ka Nin?
Composer, b. Hong Kong 3 Dec 1949, naturalized Canadian 1971, wrote Among Friends in 1989 for cello, piano and clarinet.
What is the piece Among Friends?
A trio by Chan Ka Nin, written in 1989.
When did conialization fo Canada start?
1604 by Champlain.
When did UK start taking control of New France?
After the 7 years war (1756-1763)
When were upper and lower Canada established?
1791
When did the confederation acquire further provinces after the establishment of upper and lower Canada?
1867
When did art music, concert music, and practical music (dancing) start being cultivated in Canada?
After 1800
What was the state of early Canadian music?
No such thing as a “composer”, and all music was written based on imported models for need or for the home, often patriotic.
Who was Healey Willan?
Immigrated to Canada in 1912 and wrote a great deal of church music, as well as chamber music and opera. He was mostly living as a musician and was not living as a composer. Wrote based on English models. Taught John Weinzweig. All of his students were expected to compose traditional music (church, social events, sometimes concerts) but all based on European models. Still no thing as Canadian music.
He finished Colas and Colinette
Who was Healey Willan?
Immigrated to Canada in 1912 and wrote a great deal of church music, as well as chamber music and opera. He was mostly living as a musician and was not living as a composer. Wrote based on English models. Taught John Weinzweig. All of his students were expected to compose traditional music (church, social events, sometimes concerts) but all based on European models. Still no thing as Canadian music.
Who was John Weinzweig?
b. 1913, aimed to create the profession of composer in Canada and very quickly achieved this. Studied with Healey Willan, and wrote music that was primarily tonal and British, though outside of Canada modernism was already happening. Weinzweig came back to Toronto in the 40s and brought his version of 12-tone music. This is when we begin to get “Canadian Music”
When did we start getting Canadian music?
In the 40s, when Weinzweig introduced modernist music writing from the experience of Canadians and not based on other ways of thinking.
Who was Marc Lescarbot?
b. c. 1570 in Vervins in Thiérache (between France and Spanish Netherlands. d. 1642
Lawyer, traveller and writer, accompanied a client to Acadia, composed an Adieu à la France in verse, and arrived in Port-Royal in 1606 and returned to France in 1607. Wrote about a lot of the history of Nouvelle France as told by colonists, including the Histoire de la Nouvelle France.
Wrote Théâtre de Neptune. First to notate first nations peoples’ songs.
What is the Théâtre de Neptune
Written by Marc Lescarbot, it was a nautical spectacle to celebrate Poutrincourt’s return to Port-Royal. It was the first theatrical presentation in North America.
Story revolves around god Neptune who comes in a small boat to welcome travellers home. He is surrounded by a court of Tritons and ‘Indians’ who praise the leaders of the colony and then sing in chorus while trumpets sound and cannons are filed. It was performed in the Port-Royal basin.
What is Membertou’s song?
A transcription by Marc Lescarbot from a performance by Membertou, a Micmac healer and chief. First transcription of Native North American Music.
Who is Charles-Amador Martin?
b. Quebec, 7 March 1648, d. 19 June 1711.
Credited with writing the first composition in Canada, a piece of plainchant, to be preserved but it is believed that it is unlikely he wrote anything except the “prose” section of the office.
What are the Jesuit Relations?
The Jesuit Relations, also known as Relations des Jésuites de la Nouvelle-France, are early ethnographic documents that chronicle Jesuit missions in New France to be sent back to France. The works were written annually and appeared in print beginning in 1632.
Should take with a grain of salt as these publications were used to raise money for the mission.
When was the first organ brought to Quebec?
In 1663 from the king of France. It was then copied and reproduced in the churches of various colonies.
What is the Siege of Quebec?
A sonata, the introduction up to a mark composed by M. Kotzwara and the rest by W. B. de Krifft.
What is General Wolfe?
A piece composed by Thomas Smart (music) and Thomas Paine (text). Printed as broadsheet in Dublin.
What is a broadsheet?
Also known as a broadside, a broadsheet is a single sheet of inexpensive paper printed on one side with a ballad, rhyme, or news. It was one of the most common forms of printed material between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain, Ireland and North America.
What is Colas and Colinette?
Colas et Colinette ou le Bailli dupé is comedy in prose intermixed with ariettas with text and music written by Joseph Quesnel. It was probably the first operatic work with original music to be written on Canadian soil (and most likely in North America) and the first to be performed.
Composed in 1789 and premiered in Montreal in 1790 with great success.
It is inspired by Rousseau’s philosophy (theories of simple life, good & evil, etc.), whose plot centres on M. Dolmont’s ward, the shepherdess Colinette, Colas, another simple and honest young shepherd who Colinette would rather marry, and le Bailli, who claims to be well established but is old and depraved. The music is greatly linked to each character, and the libretto and music are of French inspiration.
What are Joseph Quesnel’s views of music in Canada?
Quesnel believed that ‘the taste for music, which for three-quarters of Europeans is the source of their greatest pleasure… lags in Canada, by a century or more, behind the taste for litterature.’
Who is Louis Jolliet?
b. Quebec 1645-1700, the first organist of the Cathedral of Quebec in 1664.
Who was Marie de l’Incarnation?
Came to new france in order to serve the church and establish a religious mission. Opera la Tourangelle by István Anhalt tells her life story. One of the earliest french women to settle in Canada.
What is Opera la Tourangelle?
An “opera” that tells the life story, religious mission, and personality of Marie de l’Incarnation.
Choir, 16 instruments, electronic soundbytes, three sopranos (representing aspects of Marie’s personality).
In the 5th section, “Mission” the composer writes about immigration stories.
Who was Bishop Laval?
François de Laval (1623-1708) was the first Bishop of new France, nominated to bring ecclesiastical presence to Quebec. He made it into a fully independent diocese.
Who was Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt?
Jean de Poutrincourt (1557-1615) founded the colony of Port-Royal in Nouvelle France. The Théâtre de Neptune (Marc Lescarbot) was written to celebrate his return to Port-Royal.
What was the state of Canadian society and music in the late 18th century?
Primarily agricultural and trading society, life was hazardous and dangerous. There was no time for music making except in dances and religious music. Government officials and military were interested in concert music.
What is Royal Fusiliers arrival at Quebec?
Earliest known March, written by Charles Voyer de Poligny D’argenson.
Who was M. Jouve?
A musician appointed to duke Edward of Kent, arrived in 1791
Who was Jonathan Sewell?
Jonathan Sewell (1766-1839) was a lawyer, became a judge, very good violinist and important figure of his time, took part in various musical activities.
What is Anglomania?
A play by Joseph Quesnel (le dîner à l’anglais) depicting a French family in lower Canada.
What is General Wolfe?
A piece composed by Thomas Smart (music) and Thomas Paine (text). Printed as broadsheet in Dublin. It was written in patriotism for British colonies after the death of General Wolf (1727-1759), the British hero of the 7 years war who defeated the French army in 1759.
What is Anglomania?
A play by Joseph Quesnel (le dîner à l’anglais) depicting a French family in lower Canada.
Who is Antoine Dessane?
Antoine Dessane (1826-1873) studied music as a child (pno, cello), went to conservatory in Paris and came to Quebec after the revolution in 1848.
Taught music and fostered performances in new music. Went to NY in 1865 and returned to Quebec in 1869, founded the Septet Club (1857-1871). Unsuccessful in establishing national conservatory of music.
He wrote The Quadrille Canadien.
What is the Canadian Boat Song?
A song composed by Irish poet Thomas Moore during a visit to Canada in 1804, not to be confused with the “Canadian Boat Song” (“The Lone Shieling”) (1929) which is neither Canadian nor a boat song. It is inspired by a song he heard while being rowed down the St. Lawrence river from Kingston to Montreal, but only resembles the song in the opening bar.
Who was Theodore F. Molt?
Theodore F. Molt (1795-1856) wrote some of the earliest art songs published by composers with active careers as musicians in Canada. Had a tenure as organist in the Quebec Basilica
He wrote Sol Canadien (“Sol canadien terre chérie”) and Kennst du das Land.
Who was Calixa Lavalee?
Calixa Lavalee was an 8th generation Canadian (1842-1891, originally French). He studied piano with virtuoso Sabatier, and toured in the states with a violinist. He was wounded in war and went back to Montreal in 1863, then back to the US to get married and went to Boston and NY. He studied at the conservatory of Paris 1873-1875, became choir master at St. James Church in Montreal.
Wrote “L’absence”, L’oiseau-mouche (Humming Bird)
