Taking a stand : essays in honour of John Beckwith / edited by Timothy J. McGee.
| Other author/creator | McGee, Timothy J. (Timothy James), 1936- |
| Other author/creator | Beckwith, John. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1995. |
| Description | x, 313 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
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| Contents | Introduction. John Beckwith and Canadian music / Timothy J. McGee -- Serinette / James Reany -- Studies of composers. Echoes of time and the river / Alan M. Gillmor -- Of things past: John Hawkins's Remembrances (1969) / Don McLean -- Symmetry and synthesis in Beckwith's Etudes (1983) / Gail Dixon -- Coming to terms with the past: Beckwith's Keyboard Practice / John Mayo -- Music education. Musical education in nineteenth-century Toronto / Carl Morey -- Canadian music in the school curriculum: illusion or reality? / Lee R. Bartel and Patricia Martin Shand -- Comparative studies: Canada and the United States. Across Lake Ontario: nineteenth-century concerts and connections / Marilynn J. Smiley -- Worship music in English-speaking North America, 1608-1820 / Nicholas Temperley -- Indigenous music as a compositional source: parallels and contrasts in Canadian and American music / Elaine Keillor -- Canadian popular music, past and present. The Genesis of Ernest Gagnon's Chanson populaires du Canada / Gordon E. Smith -- What's Canadian about Canadian popular music? The case of Bruce Cockburn / Timothy Rice with Tammy Gutnik -- A Canadian looking-glass. Aspects of early arts patronage in Canada: from Rockefeller to Massey / Gordana Lazarevich -- Narratives in Canadian music history / Beverley Diamond -- John Beckwith's principal compositions and writings to 1994 / Lawrence Beckwith. |
| Abstract | Beckwith's career as a composer, performer, teacher, administrator, author, editor, and promoter of Canadian music is unparalleled. It is fitting, then, that this group of papers, organized as a tribute to him, reflects not only his contribution, but also the current major directions of Canadian music. The contributions fall under the heading of composers and compositions, music education, comparative studies of music in Canada and the United States, and general views of music in Canada. The composers discussed include Bruce Cockburn, Istvan Anhalt, John Hawkins, and of course, John Beckwith. The essays reflect the variety of musical culture in our country. The music of Canada - past and present; popular, folk, and classical; its creators, collectors, and educators - is presented, discussed, and analysed by prominent scholars. Collectively the essays summarize the current state of research on Canadian music; individually they provide standards, patterns, approaches, and directions for future research. |
| Bibliography note | Includes list of Beckwith's compositions and writings (pages 306-313) and bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | cn 95930485 |
| ISBN | 0802005837 |
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