Taking a Stand : : Essays in honour of John Beckwith /

Taking a Stand : : Essays in honour of John Beckwith / / ed. by Timothy McGee.

As Timothy McGee says in his introduction, ‘It is not an exaggeration to say that John Beckwith has been the single most important influence on Canadian music over the past forty years.’ Beckwith’s career as a composer, performer, teacher, administrator, author, editor, and promoter of Canadian musi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Bartel, Lee R.,
Beckwith, Lawrence,
Diamond, Beverley,
Dixon, Gail,
Gillmor, Alan M.,
Gutnik, Tammy,
Keillor, Elaine,
Lazarevich, Gordana,
Martin Shand, Patricia,
Mayo, John,
McGee, Timothy J.,
Mclean, Don,
Morey, Carl,
Reaney, James,
Rice, Timothy,
Smiley, Marilynn J.,
Smith, Gordon E.,
Temperley, Nicholas,
HerausgeberIn:
McGee, Timothy,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1995
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part One. Introduction
  • John Beckwith and Canadian Music
  • Serinette
  • Part Two. Studies of Composers
  • Echoes of Time and the River
  • Of Things Past: John Hawkins's Remembrances (1969)
  • Symmetry and Synthesis in Beckwith's Etudes (1983)
  • Coming to Terms with the Past: Beckwith's Keyboard Practice
  • Part Three. Music Education
  • Musical Education in Nineteenth-Century Toronto
  • Canadian Music in the School Curriculum: Illusion or Reality?
  • Part Four. Comparative Studies: Canada and the United States
  • Across Lake Ontario: Nineteenth-Century Concerts and Connections
  • Worship Music in English-Speaking North America, 1608-1820
  • Indigenous Music as a Compositional Source: Parallels and Contrasts in Canadian and American Music
  • Part Five. Canadian Popular Music, Past and Present
  • The Genesis of Ernest Gagnon' s Chansons populaires du Canada
  • What's Canadian about Canadian Popular Music?: The Case of Bruce Cockburn
  • Part Six. A Canadian Looking-Glass
  • Aspects of Early Arts Patronage in Canada: From Rockefeller to Massey
  • Narratives in Canadian Music History
  • John Beckwith' s Principal Compositions and Writings to 1994
  • List of Contributors

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