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French-Canadian folk music is generally performed to accompany dances such as the jig, jeux dansé, ronde, cotillion, and quadrille. The fiddle is perhaps the most common instrument utilized and is used by virtuosos such as Jean Carignan , Jos Bouchard , and Joseph Allard .
Sierra Norteña: the Influence of Latin Music on the French-Canadian Popular Song and Dance Scene, Especially as Reflected in the Career of Alys Robi and the Pedagogy of Maurice Lacasse-Morenoff. Montréal: Productions Juke-Box, 1994. 13 p. N.B. Published text of a paper prepared for, and presented on, on 12 March 1994, the conference, Popular ...
Along with François Couperin, Rameau was a master of the 18th-century French school of harpsichord music, and both made a break with the style of the first generation of harpsichordists whose compositions adhered to the relatively standardised suite form, which had reached its apogee in the first decade of the 18th century and successive ...
Government support programs, such as the Canada Music Fund, assist a wide range of musicians and entrepreneurs who create, produce and market original and diverse Canadian music. [7] The Canadian music industry is the sixth-largest in the world, producing internationally renowned composers, musicians and ensembles. [8]
Quebec is the only Canadian province whose population is mainly Francophone, meaning that French is their native language. In the 2011 Census , 6,102,210 people (78.1% of the population) recorded French as their sole native language and 6,249,085 (80.0%) recorded that they spoke French most often at home.
Music theorists are those who study music theory. This category includes theorists from the ancient world, especially ancient Greece which was a particularly active centre of study, to the present day. Music theory is usually considered to be a subclassification of musicology, the general academic study of music.
Music of Canadian Cultures is a wide and diverse accumulation of music from many different individual communities all across Canada. With Canada being vast in size, the country throughout its history has had regional music scenes. [1] The music of Canada has reflected the multi-cultural influences that have shaped the country.
The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2007) Max (software), Pure Data: Philip Ewell: born 1966 Music Theory and the White Racial Frame (2020) Race in music, Russian and twentieth century music, as well as rap and hip hop [218] Ellie Hisama: Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon (2007)