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C’est là un ouvrage de référence qui présente la recherche sur la musique, les genres et les sexualités, et plus largement la vie musicale non dominante au Québec depuis le dernier quart du XIXe siècle jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Issu des travaux réalisés en 202-2022 par le pôle universitaire DIG! Différences et inégalités de genre dans la musique au Québec (D!G), un réseau interdisciplinaire et intersectoriel qui réunit les chercheur·ses, publics, artistes et autres professionnel·les de la musique qui s’intéressent à cette thématique, l’ouvrage comprend une revue de la littérature et une bibliographie de plus de 800 ressources scientifiques.

Carefully preserved in the archives of the Ursuline and Hôtel-Dieu Monasteries of Quebec are several manuscripts containing Canada’s first sacred works for female voices. The manuscripts contain dozens of intricate motets composed in the French Baroque style, a repository of music which has not been sung for hundreds of years. These motets form a neglected part of Canada’s musical heritage which is waiting to be unearthed and explored. Ursuline and Augustinian nuns arrived to the French territories of the New World to educate and evangelize young women. Singing formed a core element of their teaching and worship. For over one hundred years (1639-1760), church music provided a backbone to Canada’s vibrant musical culture. When the French territories were lost to Britain and Spain, musical culture shifted radically and the sacred French music simply faded into obscurity. An overview of the sweeping events of the French Baroque era includes discussion of France’s social conditions, the political and religious climate, the flowering of the arts and the exploration of the New World. In France, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were a time of great strife which heralded the massive social changes to come in the nineteenth century. France’s struggles directly impacted the colony of New France, including that of its religious institutions and music. This study traces the musical activities in the Ursuline community of New France as the nuns lived their mission on the frontier, teaching Aboriginal and colonial girls. The evolution of female emancipation stemming from religious evangelism is considered. Examination of a trove of 160 motets located in the female monasteries of Québec City reveals the high caliber of music practiced by the nuns. No interpretive editions for performance purposes exist. Newly transcribed works have been generated from the manuscripts, with period performance guidance for appropriate ornamentation and ensemble requirements. An in-depth discussion of New France Baroque vocal and choral musical styles is provided, with reference to historical records of how it was taught, as described in contemporaneous music treatises and many original documents specific to these religious female communities.

In the field of composition in Quebec, women composers are still less numerous than men composers. While the profession of composer has difficulty being recognized in Quebec society, women composers are twice as marginalized. Many of give evidence to the challenges they face when it comes to integrating into the musical community, and several musicologists have tried to better understand—and eventually solve—the problems specific to women in the field of composition.

This article examines the early reception of Pierre Schaeffer’s theoretical work in Quebec through the teaching of Marcelle Deschênes, principal author of the first electroacoustic theory and ear training curricula at both Université Laval and Université de Montréal. An account of Deschênes’s educational career is provided, along with remarks on the contents of her early courses in Morpho-typology and her listening workshops for children, using newly excavated primary material from her private archives. While existing scholarship presumes that Schaefferian thinking arrived in Quebec with the ‘orthodox’ acousmatic approach of Francis Dhomont, this article asserts that a pluralist and multidisciplinary interpretation of Schaeffer’s work can be discerned which pre-dated Dhomont’s teaching and has had an equally lasting impact overall. A methodological argument is also made for including education and other forms of ‘reproductive labour’ in the history of electroacoustic music.

This article traces the rich Canadian legacy of the twentieth-century French musical legend Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979). Through teaching her more than seventy Canadian students, both French- and English-speaking, the renowned French pedagogue played a crucial role in the development of concert art music in this country from the 1920s, notably in Montreal and Toronto. Her numerous Canadian students went on to distinguish themselves as composers, teachers, performers, musicologists, theorists, administrators, and radio producers. Drawing on extensive archival and primary research, this study demonstrates the decisive impact Boulanger had on the development of musical styles and compositional practices in Canada in the last century.

The life story of Mrs. Daisy Sweeney, an African Canadian native of Montreal, Quebec, helps fill a void in the historical documentation of Montreal Blacks (especially female elders). Of particular significance is her prominence as a music educator and othermother during her life. The current literature on African Canadian othermothering experiences is not synonymous with both White or African American females and inclusion of their voices in academic, as well as mainstream spaces, is virtually non-existent. This dissertation asks: What did it mean to be a first generation 'Negro' working class bilingual female in a largely hostile White francophone Quebec metropolis in the early 20th Century? How can her narratives help shape and inform life history and African Canadian othermothering research? My sojourn with Mrs. Daisy Sweeney referenced African centered epistemology in my conceptual understanding of herself and community mothering. Capturing her conversations meant engaging with multiple methodologies articulated through African oral traditions, life history, archival canons and interdisciplinary inquiries. It is striking to note that there were not only certain tensions associated with memory loss and physical limitations (prompted by the aging process) that destabilized and enriched our 'interactive' communication, but also revealed a rupture and reversal of the participant/researcher dynamic. In spite of blatant racial discrimination that plagued Montreal's Black communities during that time, Daisy Sweeney fulfilled a life-long dream and taught hundreds of children the canon of classical piano for over 50 years. She lived her voice through her music, finding ways to validate her own identity and empowering others in the process. She used the musical stage as her platform to draw invaluable connections between race, gender, language and social class. Daisy Sweeney's generation of othermothers is dying out and, as the carriers of culture, the urgency to tell their stories must be emphasized. The account respects, reclaims and reflects those voices. It is time to write in African Canadian female elders and diversify the exclusionary genre of life history and archival research.

À Québec comme partout ailleurs, la place des femmes dans la sphère publique est relativement récente. L’idée qu’une femme puisse poursuivre des études universitaires, travailler à l’extérieur de la maison ou entreprendre une carrière après le mariage a commencé à se généraliser peu avant les années 1960. Dans ce long cheminement, certaines femmes ont joué un rôle pionnier. Cet article examine le parcours de vie de quatre de ces femmes qui ont réussi à faire leur marque dans le milieu culturel et médiatique de la ville de Québec au cours des années qui ont suivi la seconde guerre mondiale : Francoise Larochelle-Roy, Simone Bussières, Georgette Lacroix et Monique Duval. L’itinéraire biographique de ces pionnières permet de mieux comprendre les singularités de leur insertion dans le milieu culturel et professionnel, en même temps que les points communs qui les relient toutes quatre au contexte d’une époque. On les suivra donc depuis l’enfance jusqu’à la vie adulte où elles évolueront dans l’enseignement, le journalisme, l’animation radiophonique, ainsi que dans le monde des lettres.

Cette thèse a pour but l’étude sociologique de la musique actuelle au Québec. La musique actuelle est une pratique de création créée en dehors des institutions académiques et des centres de recherche. La professionnalisation de ce milieu artistique est décrite et analysée dans une perspective sociologique en prenant les cas des Productions Supermusique et du label DAME ainsi que du festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville. L’objectif de cette thèse est d’acquérir une connaissance sur la façon dont s’est développé ce milieu musical des années 70 à aujourd’hui.

S'il est une musique qui fut pratiquée en Nouvelle-France depuis les origines jusqu'au XXe siècle, ce fut bien celle du plain-chant1. Or, ce répertoire se présente comme un reflet souvent exact du plain-chant gallican, de son histoire et de sa pratique. Certes, il lui a fallu s'adapter aux lieux, aux populations et aux coutumes, mais sa répartition géographique, moins complexe qu'en France, et le nombre plus restreint d'institutions et de paroisses permettent une méthode d'approche à peu près contrôlable. Au cours de notre projet de recherche2, nous avons recueilli à travers le Québec des centaines de sources qui tracent un portrait riche de cette pratique. Mieux : au-delà du plain-chant lui-même c 'est en fait le chant baroque français qui s'est conservé longtemps ici, « sous cloche », dans un milieu très conservateur : ce chant de la Nouvelle-France est un beau cas de Performing practice. Parmi toutes les institutions visitées, les Ursulines de Québec et de Trois-Rivières3 constituent une excellente illustration de ce phénomène. Les sources conservées chez elles, classées dans l'annexe bibliographique, présentent une synthèse assez fidèle des sources demeurées en Nouvelle-France, contribuant ainsi à l'élaboration de ce portrait.