Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter iii
2. Contents vii
3. Vignettes ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Exploring the Sounds of Canada 3
6. Traditional Musical Expressions of the First Peoples 15
7. Music the French Brought to Canada 47
8. Music the British Brought to Canada 67
9. Expanding Settlements before Confederation 92
10. Forging a Nation with Music: 1867–1918 117
11. The Rise of Popular Musics 144
12. Musical Expansion: 1914–1945 166
13. From A Rag Time Spasm to I’m Movin’ On 185
14. Performers and Creators: 1945–1970 206
15. I Know an Old Lady: Modern Folk to Cancon Quotas 225
16. Refined Music in Canada and Abroad 249
17. Closer to the Heart 270
18. Space and Identity 296
19. Appendices 321
20. Representative melodic contours from the eight geographical regions of First Peoples Cultures 323
21. Conrad Laforte’s classification system for French folk songs 329
22. A list of nineteenth-century Canadian tunebooks and hymnals, compiled by John Beckwith 332
23. Tunes on the barrel organ at Sharon 336
24. Dances current in Quebec, ca. 1800–1850 337
25. Prominent Canadian choral groups 338
26. Repertoire and choral groups for the 1903 Cycle of Music Festivals organized by Charles A.E. Harriss 340
27. Recordings of Canadian music released on Folkways Records to 1962 343
28. Works discussed by David Parsons in “Landscape Imagery in Canadian Music” (1987) 345
29. Selected Noteworthy Canadian Compositions 347
30. Notes 361
31. References 419
32. Index 457