topic:"music" found 21 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Thirty-four biographies of Canadian composers

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1964

Author: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Publisher: Montreal

Call Number: R 06.3 C16

Author: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Responsibility: prepared and distributed by the International Servie of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Publisher: Montreal

Published Date: 1964

Physical Description: 110 p. : port

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Adaskin, Murray; Music

Notes: Cover title: Canadian composers; biographies; Text in English and French

Accession Number: 166

Call Number: R 06.3 C16

Collection: Archives Library

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Unsung : a history of women in American music

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1980

Author: Ammer, Christine

Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press

Call Number: 08 Am6u

Author: Ammer, Christine

Responsibility: Christine Ammer

Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press

Published Date: 1980

Physical Description: x, 317 pages ; 24 cm.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Music; Women; Mills, Ike; History

Abstract: Pertains to Alma (LaPalme) Mills who performed as a cellist as part of the Musical Art Quartet in 1920 and was a pupil of Charlotte White. Alma LaPalme was married to Ike Mills and they resided in Banff (Chapter 3, page 60)

Contents: The First Flowering--At the Organ -- The "Lady Violinists" and Other String Players -- Seated at the Keyboard -- The First "Lady Composers" -- Apartheid--The All-Women's Orchestras -- American Composers in European Idioms -- Grass Roots--Composers in American Idioms -- Opera Composers and Conductors -- Contemporary and Postmodern Idioms--After 1950 -- Electronic Music, Mixed Media, Film, Performance Art -- Today's Orchestras, Conductors, and Instrumentalists -- Teaching Music -- Angels and Advocates -- Women Musicians in Thirteen Major U.S. Orchestras.

ISBN: 978-1-48357-699-2

Accession Number: p2019-03

Call Number: 08 Am6u

Collection: Archives Library

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The snowbears of Lake Louise

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1997

Author: Chesky, David

Publisher: New York : Chesky Records

Call Number: 05.2 C42

Author: Chesky, David

Responsibility: David Chesky; illustrations by Chris Bigelow

Publisher: New York : Chesky Records

Published Date: 1997

Physical Description: 38 p. : col. ill.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Bears; Environment; Juvenile literature; Music

Notes: Includes sound recording (sound disc : digital, 4 3/4 in. )

ISBN: 0-9658787-4-0

Accession Number: 32,500

Call Number: 05.2 C42

Collection: Archives Library

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Challenging frontiers : the Canadian west

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2004

Author: Felske, Lorry W., Beverly Jean Rasporich (editors)

Publisher: Calgary : University of Calgary Press

Call Number: 08.2 Fe33c

Author: Felske, Lorry W., Beverly Jean Rasporich (editors)

Responsibility: Edited by Lorry W. Felske and Beverly Jean Rasporich

Publisher: Calgary : University of Calgary Press

Published Date: 2004

Physical Description: vii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Landscapes; Artists; Prairies, Canadian; First Nations; Mining; Music; Immigration; Chinese; Politics; Ranching

Abstract: Pertains to Indigenous people and Asian immigration in Western Canada, the Banff Springs Hotel, coal mining in Calgary, Canadian Pacific Hotels, Wilf Carter, Group of Seven, Sid Marty

Contents: Introduction : challenging frontiers / Lorry W. Felske and Beverly Rasporich -- Shooting a Saskatoon (whatever happened to the Marlboro man?) / Aritha van Herk -- Regionalism, landscape, and identity in the prairie west / R. Douglas Francis -- Celebrating magpies : artists Paul Kane, Hongeeyesa, and Emily Carr / Ann Davis -- Two months in big bear's camp, 1885 : narratives of "Indian captivity" and the articulation of "race" and "gender" hierarchies in western Canada / Sarah Carter -- Roughing it in the west, or, whose frontier, whose history? / Janice Dickin -- Diversifying our past : finding a place for coal mining communities in Alberta's historic identity / Lorry W. Felske -- When the "wild west" is me : re-viewing cowboys and Indians / Emma LaRocque -- Managing contradictory visions of the west : the great Richardson/Weadick experiment / Robert Seiler and Tamara Seiler -- Hank Snow and the eastern frontiers of western music / Brian Rusted -- Standard prairie grain elevators : a disappearing icon / Geoffrey Simmins -- From somewhere to everywhere to nowhere : the bank of Montreal as a case of vanishing identity / Michael McMordie -- Asian immigration to western Canada / Madeline A. Kalbach -- Chinese-language media across the west / Lloyd Sciban -- The reform and alliance experiments : federal politics in Western Canada / David Taras -- Constancy amid change : ranching in Western Canada / Max Foran -- North/Western aurages : the soundscapes of Allan Gordon Bell / Marcia Jenneth Epstein -- Rodeos, ranching and the house of tea : Irene McCaugherty and Esther Warkov re-invent the West / Beverly Rasporich.