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Composition competitions
Composition competitions. Increasingly numerous after 1950, sponsored by governmental, professional, educational, and other organizations. Prizes may be in the form of medals, scholarships, commissions, performances and cash, or cash alone.
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Composition
Composition Composition. See the following: Anthems, motets, and psalms Art song Ballets and dance theatre Brass Cantata Cello Choral composition Chamber music composition Christmas Composition, instrumental solos and duos Composition, topical Composition competitions Composition for ensemble teaching Composition techniques, contemporary Concertos and concertante music Double-bass Easter, Lent, the Passion Electroacoustic music Film scores Folk-music-inspired composition Guitar Harp Harpsichord composition Incidental music Librettos Literature set to music Lullabies Masses Musical theatre Opera composition Oratorio composition Orchestral...
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Composition for Ensemble Teaching
Composition for ensemble teaching. Some Canadian composers have been loth - or insufficiently experienced - to work within the constraints imposed by writing for student performers.
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Composition, instrumental solos and duos
IntroductionOne may consider the repertoire of Canadian compositions in these categories in two ways. First, 'repertoire' may indicate those works which are played repeatedly.
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COMUS Music Theatre of Canada
COMUS Music Theatre of Canada. Organization operating 1975-87 in Toronto (its name derived from Milton's Masque of Comus). COMUS was founded by Michael Bawtree, Gabriel Charpentier, and Maureen Forrester, whose aim was to develop and present music theatre works of all kinds in all media.
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Concert Productions International
Concert Productions International (familiarly, CPI). Major promoter of rock concerts and tours in North America. It was established in Toronto in 1973 as a subsidiary of WBC Productions Ltd by Michael Cohl, William (Bill) Ballard, and David Wolinsky.
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Concerts
Performances given by one or more artists before audiences which have assembled, and usually paid admission fees, primarily for the purpose of hearing and contemplating music as music, distinct from music performed as an adjunct to other activities such as worship, ceremony, dining, or theatre.
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Concordia University Electroacoustics/Électroacoustiques Université Concordia
Concordia University Electroacoustics/Électroacoustiques Université Concordia (Concordia Electroacoustic Composers' Group/Groupe électroacoustique de Concordia 1982-9).
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Conductors and Conducting
The musician who directs a group of singers or instrumentalists without participating in the actual singing or playing is essentially the creation of the early 19th century; the one who makes a full-time career of such leadership is the product of the final decades of that century.
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Conductors and conducting
IntroductionConductors and conducting. The practice of beating time with hand, foot, stick, bow, or rolled-up sheet of paper to co-ordinate group performance is centuries old.
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Confederation and Music
Confederation and music. Confederation is the popular term for the federal union in 1867 of the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada (thereafter Ontario and Quebec), New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia under the name Dominion of Canada.
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Confederation Centre of the Arts Choirs
Confederation Centre of the Arts choirs, Charlottetown. Two choirs that originated in the Confederation Choir, a mixed-voice group formed in 1963 from the nucleus of the Charlottetown Chorale, which had sung since 1951 under William Keith Rogers and Christopher Gledhill.
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Confederation Centre of the Arts
The centre's design, by architect Dimitri Dimakopoulos and theatre designer George Izenour, was selected by a jury of internationally distinguished architects from among 47 submissions.
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Conferences and Congresses
Conferences and congresses. Canada has played host with increasing frequency to meetings of worldwide and North American musical organizations.
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