School for Studies in Art and Culture

Loeb Building A911
Telephone: 788-5770
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 30.501W1
   Theories of Music as Culture
   This course provides a critical survey of major theories on the
   relationship between music and culture. Particular attention is
   paid to the way in which work in musicology, ethnomusicology,
   culture theory, feminism, semiotics, structuralism,
   poststructuralism and psychoanalytic theory has been applied to
   the problem of understanding the culture-specific character of
   sound in music.
   Prerequisite: Permission of the School for Studies in Art and
   Culture (Music).

*  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.
   Prerequisite: Permission of the School for Studies in Art and
   Culture (Music).

*  Music 30.511F1
   History of Canadian Music II
   Anglo- and Franco-folk music traditions in Canada, past and
   present.
   Prerequisite: Permission of the School for Studies in Art and
   Culture (Music).

*  Music 30.512W1
   History of Canadian Music III
   The music of various ethnic minorities in Canada with special
   emphasis on Inuit and native traditions.
   Prerequisite: Permission of the School for Studies in Art and
   Culture (Music).

*  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
   1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
   Prerequisites: Permission of the School for Studies in Art and
   Culture (Music). A good reading ability in French is essential.