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Ce texte revient sur le processus de création de trois spectacles chorégraphiques auxquels j’ai participé comme conceptrice sonore : Concerto grosso pour corps et surface métallique (1999), Duos pour corps et instruments (2003) et Là où je vis (2007). Ces parcours de recherche-création, traversés avec la chorégraphe Danièle Desnoyers (compagnie Le Carré des Lombes), permettent d’observer comment l’écriture sonore se développe in situ avec l’écriture chorégraphique. Les deux se forment ensemble en s’influençant l’une l’autre. Les trois spectacles choisis témoignent de différents modes de création de la matière sonore : amplification des danseurs, diffusion avec des haut-parleurs inusités, invention d’instruments et citation de musiques transformées. Les récits de collaborations qui suivent révèlent les manières dont la matière sonore a émergé de l’écriture chorégraphique et vice versa.
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Most often associated with modern artists such as Bob Dylan, Elton John, Don McLean, Neil Diamond, and Carole King, the singer-songwriter tradition in fact has a long and complex history dating back to the medieval troubadour and earlier. This Companion explains the historical contexts, musical analyses, and theoretical frameworks of the singer-songwriter tradition. Divided into five parts, the book explores the tradition in the context of issues including authenticity, gender, queer studies, musical analysis, and performance. The contributors reveal how the tradition has been expressed around the world and throughout its history to the present day. Essential reading for enthusiasts, practitioners, students, and scholars, this book features case studies of a wide range of both well and lesser-known singer-songwriters, from Thomas d'Urfey through to Carole King and Kanye West.
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Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright is famous around the world for his multi-faceted musical style, shown through both his recorded output and his engaging live performances. Katherine Williams combines aspects of his life story with scholarly readings drawn from several methodologies.
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Over the course of the last decade the organ works of Canadian composer Rachel Laurin (b. 1961) have gained critical acclaim among professional organists. Her organ music has captured the attention of American and Canadian organists, resulting in a series of commissions for new organ works. To date, there are over thirty-two compositions for organ solo. This document explores stylistic issues in Laurin's compositions for solo organ and for organ with other instruments. Pieces that have been selected for in-depth study include Chromatic Fantasietta, Scherzetto, Toccatarina (to Katarina) and Asian Legend from Twelve Short Pieces, Volume 3, op. 64, Étude Héroïque, Op.38, and the Sonata for Organ and Horn, Op.60, II. On a Painting by Thomson. At the outset of the document an overview of Canadian organ culture is provided, followed by an introduction to Laurin's life and works. Subsequently, a structural and harmonic analysis of Laurin's compositions is presented. As this analysis will reveal, the expressive dimensions of her works embrace elements of Romanticism and Impressionism.
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After an introduction to the genre »chanson« and its fascination with real life, this article investigates the different ways in which French (and Franco-Canadian) chansons deal with ageing and old age. The study looks at the songs’ lyrics, which describe or represent old age in a manner between stereotype and intimate confession, and at the authentic or inauthentic performance of the chanson by its singer or singer-songwriter. The analyses are followed by an overview of chansons describing the end of the world. It can be shown that many of these songs focus on the feelings of lovers facing the apocalypse and that in more than one case chansons envisioning the last moments of the world contain a mixture of fear and parody.
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The Ammanuel Montreal Evangelical Church (amec) is composed of over 150 members of Ethiopian and Eritrean origin. Through the examination of their musical practices, this article analyzes how music is involved in the construction and expression of religious identities in the context of migration. It appears that in borrowing worship music widespread in Ethiopia and in its diaspora, the faithful highlight the "Ethiopianness" of the group, at the expense of the minority Eritrean identity. The author then reveals that each musical parameter conveys different identity facets. If the universality of the Gospel message is expressed through dance and lyrics, the repertoire and its instrumentarium convey the "Ethiopianness" of the congregation, while the rhythms refer to a multi-ethnic Ethiopian imaginary. As for the local identity (Montreal) of the congregation, it is represented by the combination of several hymns borrowed from the stars of Ethiopian Gospel music. Finally, the paper highlights some musical ambivalences of the faithful who, in the context of migration, feel torn between several cultures.
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Le powwow compte parmi les pratiques culturelles les plus importantes de l’autochtonie nord-américaine, et constitue une pratique artistique en pleine expansion : alors que le powwow existe depuis le XIXe siècle dans le sud-ouest des États-Unis, de nombreuses communautés du sud-est canadien (essentiellement dans les provinces de l’Ontario et du Québec) ont investi cette forme culturelle dans les dernières décennies. L’étude présentée dans ce texte se penche sur ce phénomène des powwows du sud-est canadien, en s’attardant à la fois à la dimension de transferts culturels qui le définit, et à la dimension politique qui y est sous-jacente. Nous nous pencherons pour ce faire sur la définition et les influences autochtones aux origines du powwow contemporain, sur la géographie de ce que les praticiens qualifient de « retour des traditions, et sur la structuration géoculturelle des powwows du sud-est, parmi lesquels nous distinguerons le powwow ojibway (région ontarienne du nord des Grands Lacs), le powwow haudenosaune (péninsule de Niagara et vallée du Saint-Laurent), et le powwow est-algonquien (Outaouais, Haute Mauricie, Lac Saint-Jean).