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Anthems and Minstrel Shows
The Life and Times of Calixa Lavallée, 1842-1891
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2015
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7735-4555-7 (ISBN)
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7735-4555-7 (ISBN)
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From Montreal to New Orleans - the music and complex patriotism of the composer of "O Canada."
Calixa Lavallee, the composer of "O Canada," was the first Canadian-born musician to achieve an international reputation. While primarily remembered for the national anthem, Lavallee and his work extended well beyond Canada, and he played a multitude of roles in North American music as a composer, conductor, administrator, instrumentalist, educator, and critic. In Anthems and Minstrel Shows, Brian Thompson analyzes Lavallee's music, letters, and published writings, as well as newspapers and music magazines of the time, to provide a detailed account of musical life in nineteenth-century North America and the relationship between music and nation. Leaving Quebec at age sixteen, Lavallee travelled widely for a decade as musical director of a minstrel troupe, and spent a year as a bandsman in the Union Army. Later, as a performer and conductor, he built a repertoire that prepared audiences for the intellectually challenging music of European composers and new music by his US contemporaries. His own music extended from national songs to comic operas, and instrumental music, as he shifted between the worlds of classical and popular music.
Previously portrayed as a humble French Canadian forced into exile by ignorance and injustice, Lavallee emerges here as ambitious, radical, bohemian, and fully engaged with the musical, social, and political currents of his time. While nationalism and nation-building are central to this story, Anthems and Minstrel Shows asks to which nation - or nations - Lavallee and "O Canada" really belong.
Calixa Lavallee, the composer of "O Canada," was the first Canadian-born musician to achieve an international reputation. While primarily remembered for the national anthem, Lavallee and his work extended well beyond Canada, and he played a multitude of roles in North American music as a composer, conductor, administrator, instrumentalist, educator, and critic. In Anthems and Minstrel Shows, Brian Thompson analyzes Lavallee's music, letters, and published writings, as well as newspapers and music magazines of the time, to provide a detailed account of musical life in nineteenth-century North America and the relationship between music and nation. Leaving Quebec at age sixteen, Lavallee travelled widely for a decade as musical director of a minstrel troupe, and spent a year as a bandsman in the Union Army. Later, as a performer and conductor, he built a repertoire that prepared audiences for the intellectually challenging music of European composers and new music by his US contemporaries. His own music extended from national songs to comic operas, and instrumental music, as he shifted between the worlds of classical and popular music.
Previously portrayed as a humble French Canadian forced into exile by ignorance and injustice, Lavallee emerges here as ambitious, radical, bohemian, and fully engaged with the musical, social, and political currents of his time. While nationalism and nation-building are central to this story, Anthems and Minstrel Shows asks to which nation - or nations - Lavallee and "O Canada" really belong.
Brian Christopher Thompson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Music at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.6.2015 |
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Zusatzinfo | 54 photos, 15 drawings, 16 pages of music, 3 maps, 9 tables |
Verlagsort | Montreal |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7735-4555-7 / 0773545557 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7735-4555-7 / 9780773545557 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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