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• Title:Anthems and minstrel shows : the life and times of Calixa Lavallée, 1842-1891 / Brian Christopher Thompson.
  
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• Author/Creator:Thompson, Brian, author.
  
• Published/Created:Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015]
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ML410.L32 T46 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Lavallée, Calixa, 1842-1891.
  Composers--Canada--Biography.
  
• Genre/Form: Biographies.
  
• Description:xxviii, 522 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"Calixa Lavallée, the composer of "O Canada," was the first Canadian-born musician to achieve an international reputation. While primarily remembered for the national anthem, Lavalée and his work extended well beyond Canada - 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 Lavallée'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, Lavallée travelled widely for a decade as musical director of a minstrel groupe, 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. Equally at home in the worlds of classical and popular music throughout his career, his own compositions ranged from national songs to comic operas to instrumental music."--Jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780773545557 bound
  0773545557 bound
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE ON THE ROAD (1842
  1873)
  1. Rebellion (1842
  1863)
  2. L'Union Nationale: Montreal (1863
  1865)
  3. Journeyman Musician (1866
  1873)
  pt. TWO NATIONAL MUSICIAN (1873
  1880)
  4. Paris and Montreal (1873
  1878)
  5. Quebec City (1878
  1880)
  pt. THREE "THE LAFAYETTE OF AMERICAN MUSIC" (1880
  1891)
  6. Boston (1880
  1883)
  7. American Concerts and the MTNA (1884
  1891).