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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 ]
Gaining speed in the west of Canada, the electronic music scene grew rapidly within most major centres. Canadian artists have also had a significant impact on industrial music worldwide, and Canada is considered by many to be one of the birthplaces of modern industrial music, with bands such as Skinny Puppy. Going back to the late 1960s, Canada ...
c. 1600 - Approximately 250,000 First Nations and Inuit (Eskimo) inhabit what is now Canada. May 26, 1603 - After being dispatched by the King of France, Samuel de Champlain drops anchor in Tadoussac in what would become the province of Quebec. [1] [2]
Bartholomäus Gesius – Psalmodia choralis (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann), a collection of antiphons, responsories, hymns, introits and other mass music; Jakob Hassler – Madrigals for six voices (Nuremberg: Paul Kaffmann) Orlande de Lassus – Prophetiae Sibyllarum for four voices (Munich: Nicolaus Heinrich), published posthumously
Canada's Top 20 Countdown; Canadian Albums Chart; Canadian Christian Radio Chart; Canadian dance chart; Canadian Hot 100; Canadian rock music charts; Canadian Singles Chart; CBC Music Top 20; CHUM Chart
Most genres of music have their known instruments that are played to compose a song. The principal instrument for Canadian folk music is known to be the fiddle. The first record of a fiddle in Canada is in 1645 at a wedding in Quebec on the 27th of November.
Canadian singles charts were compiled by RPM from 1964 to 2000 and The Record from 1983 to 1996. Nielsen SoundScan compiled charts from 1996 to the present; Billboard's Canadian Hot 100, compiled from Nielsen SoundScan and Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, has been published on a weekly basis since 2007.
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