School for Studies in Art and Culture:
Music


Loeb Building A911
Telephone: 520-5770
Fax: 520-3905

The School
St. Patrick’s Building 423


Director:
John Shepherd
Assistant Director (Music):
Jennifer Giles

Music offers courses at the graduate level in musicology and ethnomusicology. These include courses offered in cooperation with the School of Canadian Studies. Full use is 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.

Courses in the sociology and aesthetics of music are offered by Dr. John Shepherd and Dr. Geraldine Finn.

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 30.505F1 Feminism and Musicology This course applies the insights and analyses of feminist cultural critiques to the theory and practice of music and musicology. Taking specific discursive and musical examples as its focus, the course draws upon recent developments in psychoanalytic theory, deconstruction, and post-colonial critique to examine the structures and significances of music in contemporary culture and its relationship to politics, ideology, and power. Prerequisite: Permission of the School for Studies in Art and Culture (Music).

  • Music 30.510T2
    History of Canadian Music I
    Selected aspects of notated Canadian music from 1600 to the present; liturgical music; social and economic conditions of Canadian musical life; regional studies; individual composers and performers.
    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 the traditions of the First Nations.
    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 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 is 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 Québec 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.