School for Studies in Art and Culture Music

Loeb Building A911
    Telephone: 788-3733
    Fax: 788-4467

The School
    St. Patrick's Building 427
    Director:  John Shepherd
    Assistant Director (Music):  Elaine Keillor

Music offers courses at the graduate level in the history of Canadian
music and related fields, in cooperation with the School of Canadian
Studies. Full use will be made of the resources of the National Library,
the Public Archives, and the National Museum of Civilization.

Dr. Elaine Keillor is lecturer in Canadian music with Dr. Helmut Kallmann
(former Chief Music Librarian, National Library) as Adjunct Professor.

Graduate Courses*

*   Music 30.510T2
    History of Canadian Music I
    Selected aspects of Canadian music from 1600 to the present;
    liturgical music; social and economic conditions of Canadian musical
    life; regional studies; individual composers.
    Prerequisites: Permission of the Department and the School of
    Canadian Studies.

*   Music 30.511F1
    History of Canadian Music II
    Anglo- and Franco-folk music traditions in Canada, past and present.
    Prerequisites: Permission of the Department and the School of
    Canadian Studies.

*   Music 30.512W1
    History of Canadian Music III
    The music of various ethnic minorities in Canada with special
    emphasis on Inuit and native traditions.
    Prerequisites: Permission of the Department and the School of
    Canadian Studies.

*   Music 30.515F1
    History of Canadian Music IV       
    A survey of the history of French-Canadian popular music from the
    beginnings of Nouvelle France to the present. Topics to be covered
    include folk music of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth
    centuries, salon music, political song, and the growth of mass
    disseminated popular music. Special attention will be paid to the
    social and political contexts of music making, in particular the 
    identity of popular music with aspirations of nationalism in the
    Province of Quebec during the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's.
    Prerequisites: Permission of the Department and the School of
    Canadian Studies. A good reading ability in French is essential.