Unheard Of

Edited by John Beckwith
Subjects: Life Writing, Music, Cultural Studies, Biography & Autobiography
Series: Life Writing

The memoir of renowned Canadian composer John Beckwith recounts his more than sixty years in creative output and music education. His life story is a slice of Canadian cultural history.
Canadian composer ...

Weinzweig

Edited by Brian Cherney & John Beckwith
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Music, Biography & Autobiography

First comprehensive study of John Weinzweig (1913–2006), the pre-eminent Canadian composer of his generation, with essays by composers, theorists, and musicologists. Includes a CD of extracts.
Influenced ...

Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts

Edited by Gordon E. Smith & Robin Elliott
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Ethnography, Music

Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts is a tribute to the ethnomusicologist Beverley Diamond in recognition of her outstanding scholarly accomplishments. The volume includes essays by leading ethnomusicologists ...

Eagle Minds

Edited by Alan M. Gillmor
Subjects: Music, Biography & Autobiography

Eagle Minds—a selection from the correspondence between the Canadian composer and scholar Istvan Anhalt and his American counterpart George Rochberg—is a splendid chronicle and a penetrating analysis ...

Sacred Sound

Edited by Guy L. Beck
Subjects: Music, Religion

This innovative book explores religion through music, the only art form named after a divinity and one of the most universally recognized forms of human experience.
Music has been documented from prehistory ...

Vita Laudanda

By Erich R.W. Schultz
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Wilfrid Laurier University, Music

Ulrich Leupold was associated with Wilfrid Laurier University from 1945-1970. Throughout the twenty-five-year period he taught music history and appreciation, Greek, and religious studies courses in the ...