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• W47888319 abstract "GEORGE A. PROCTOR. Canadian Music of the Twentieth Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980, xxvi, 297 pp. George Proctor has recognized the long-standing need for a guide the rapidly expanding body of Canadian contemporary music. Unlike literature, poetry and, some extent, painting and sculpture, Canadian composition has not attained a strong public profile despite the laudable efforts of the Canadian Music Centre, The Canada Council for the Arts, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation promote and disseminate Canadian works. Although performing artists such as Glenn Gould, Maureen Forrester, and Teresa Stratas enjoy considerable national and international visibility, Canadian composers, the creators of the art, rarely receive broad-spectrum media coverage. There are several rather complex reasons why Healey Willan, John Weinzweig, and R. Murray Schafer have not emerged as prominent contemporary cultural figures, like Tom Thomson, Leonard Cohen, or Harold Towne. Perhaps the most significant factor is the relative inaccessibility of contemporary musical idioms compared other art forms, and it is likely that no amount of subsidized promotion will temper this problem. However, Proctor has addressed two correctable problems. He states that his principle aims are first, to bridge the sizeable gap which at present exists between the producer and the consumer of Canadian (p. ix), and second, to bring together the sources of scores and (p. x). The author has blended these two goals into a form which presents a carefully selected chronology of works organized by genre and performance medium. In Proctor's words, the text provides, an introduction the music itself, the varied products of musical creation by many individual (P- ix). The seven chapters of the book divide more or less by decade the substantial growth since 1900 of creative output, musical activity, and the establishment of the major musical institutions and ensembles across the nation. Proctor has attempted amplify the major tendencies of each period through stylistic labels. Although some readers may object the general attribution of Neoclassicism the 1950s and New Romanticism the 1960s, the terms do tend reflect the musical objectives of a majority of the works described and/or listed in the selective list of works, scores, and recordings which follows each chapter. For example, in Chapter 2, 1921-1940: Early Nationalism, a significant number of works are based on nationalistic ideas, indigenous folk materials, or regionally popular musical styles reflecting the general trend in the literary and visual arts toward Canadian topics. Unfortunately, as Proctor points out, many of these works were shallow and inconsequential. Canadian composers were still more comfortable with the rhetorical romanticism of the nineteenth century or the imperial styles of Parry and Elgar. From about 1940 the present, Canadian composition began exhibit aspects of the techniques of Schoenberg and Stravinsky, whose works represented the principal stylistic camps of modern composition. Proctor demonstrates that the recent immigrant musicians and young Canadian composers returning from studies in Europe and the United States (Papineau-Couture, Pentland, Weinzweig, Anhalt, etc.) enthusiastically promulgated in their works unique and compelling versions of the new language. The establishment of the Canadian League of Composers in 1951 and the vigorous endeavors of the CBC did much nurture interest by the press and the music-going public. The author outlines the rise of these and other important institutions, orchestral bodies, and government agencies which, over the last three decades, have contributed immeasurably the growth and dissemination of Canadian composition. The general flourishing of compositional activity from after World War II the present is clearly established by Proctor both in the expanded number of entries and the depth of critical appraisal. …" @default.
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