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Music in a New Found Land

Author : Manfred Holthus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351504185
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Music in a New Found Land written by Manfred Holthus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this book is accurately defined by its subtitle. Music in a New Found Land does not pretend to be a comprehensive history of American music. Nor does Mellers strive to catalog what he considers to be authentic American music. Instead, he deals, in some detail, with comparatively few composers, most of whom have wellestablished reputations. It has always been difficult to separate American music from its immediate relevance to the twentieth century. Mellers' theme involves the relationship between "art" music, jazz and pop music; he sees the segregation of these genres as both illogical and artifi cial. If the pop music of Tin Pan Alley may be anti-art, it has also produced Gershwin, Ellington, and composing improvisers such as Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis. The study of American music is as relevant into any inquiry into a national culture as the study of American literature and painting. This book contains a large number of quotations from American writers, because Mellers thought American sensibility should parallel, reinforce, and comment on American music. In sum, this is the closest available one-volume history of American music, and a window into American culture.

Newfoundland Fiddle Music in the 21st Century

Author : Dr. Bridget O’Connell
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 151345966X
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Newfoundland Fiddle Music in the 21st Century written by Dr. Bridget O’Connell and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously researched anthology presents detailed biographies and transcriptions, including bowing, ornamentation, and accentuation of 39 fiddle tunes as played by 25 Newfoundland fiddlers from locations throughout the island. For unparalleled authenticity, the author’s live field recordings of each tune are available online, offering a unique perspective of the various types of tunes and techniques favoured by past and present Newfoundland fiddlers. Newfoundland, a former British colony, possesses a rich and varied cultural heritage due to its history of unique settlement patterns. Beginning in the 16th century, European migrants from Ireland, Scotland, West-Country England, and France settled on the island, bringing with them their various cultural practices, including their fiddles! This collection provides insight to the backgrounds, geographical locations, and musical preferences of the individual players, and how music-making and the role and status of Newfoundland fiddlers have evolved over time. The tunes included here vary from original compositions and revival collectors’ treasures, to reinterpreted versions of timeless Irish, Scottish, and French tunes. Together, they form a part of the modern-day Newfoundland fiddling tradition. This book will delight fiddle players and any musician who wishes to further enhance their repertoire and technique, or simply learn more about the island of Newfoundland and its music. Includes access to online audio.

Music in a New Found Land

Author : Wilfrid Mellers
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412845076
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Music in a New Found Land written by Wilfrid Mellers and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1967 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Music of Our Burnished Axes

Author : Ursula A. Kelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781894725408
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book The Music of Our Burnished Axes written by Ursula A. Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While well-known songs such as "The Badger Drive" and "Tickle Cove Pond" provide glimpses into the hard labour and rich culture of woods work in early twentieth-century Newfoundland and Labrador, little has been written about the lives of woods workers and the extent of their enduring cultural legacies. Songs, stories, recitations, poems, and instrumental tunes flourished in the woods camps. Many of them were created locally and reflect the people and experiences of woods work. Passed down by oral tradition in bunkhouses and at work sites, in family kitchens and at community concerts, these songs and stories address a gap in our understanding of this occupational culture and its history.This book is the first comprehensive collection of musical compositions, recitations, poems, and narratives written by, for, and about twentieth-century woods workers in Newfoundland and Labrador. It analyzes their significance--as both grassroots social history texts and creative and musical contributions--and creates a portrait of a culture shaped by the harvesting of timber. Inside you will find: a history of lumbering and logging; an exploration of the place of song and story in woods work and culture; musical transcriptions of 76 locally composed songs and tunes, with analysis of this musical tradition; complete song lyrics with contextual discussion; more than 70 archival photos; and a glossary of occupational words.

Come from Away

Author : Genevieve Graham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501142925
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Come from Away written by Genevieve Graham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Tides of Honour and Promises to Keep comes a poignant novel about a young couple caught on opposite sides of the Second World War. In the fall of 1939, Grace Baker’s three brothers, sharp and proud in their uniforms, board Canadian ships headed for a faraway war. Grace stays behind, tending to the homefront and the general store that helps keep her small Nova Scotian community running. The war, everyone says, will be over before it starts. But three years later, the fighting rages on and rumours swirl about “wolf packs” of German U-Boats lurking in the deep waters along the shores of East Jeddore, a stone’s throw from Grace’s window. As the harsh realities of war come closer to home, Grace buries herself in her work at the store. Then, one day, a handsome stranger ventures into the store. He claims to be a trapper come from away, and as Grace gets to know him, she becomes enamoured by his gentle smile and thoughtful ways. But after several weeks, she discovers that Rudi, her mysterious visitor, is not the lonely outsider he appears to be. He is someone else entirely—someone not to be trusted. When a shocking truth about her family forces Grace to question everything she has so strongly believed, she realizes that she and Rudi have more in common than she had thought. And if Grace is to have a chance at love, she must not only choose a side, but take a stand. Come from Away is a mesmerizing story of love, shifting allegiances, and second chances, set against the tumultuous years of the Second World War.

Folk music in a Newfoundland outport

Author : Gordon Sidney Allister Cox
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 1772823392
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Folk music in a Newfoundland outport written by Gordon Sidney Allister Cox and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A holistic description of Newfoundland outport music and its social significance based on interviews conducted in Green’s Harbour and the Trinity Bay South area.

Music in a new found land

Author : Wilfrid Mellers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904331452
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Music in a new found land written by Wilfrid Mellers and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Singing in the Wilderness

Author : Wilfrid Mellers
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252025297
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Singing in the Wilderness written by Wilfrid Mellers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mellers (composer and professor emeritus, University of York) begins with the confusion of the (unfamiliar) forest within, audible in Wagner's late and Shoenberg's early works, in Delius's A Village Romeo and Juliet, and Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande. The next section, The Forest Without, examines Charles Koechlin's Le Foret Feerique and Milhaud's Le Boeuf Sur le Toit which embrace the real jungle without and the imaginative jungle within. Part 3 shows Villa-Lobos and Carlos Chavez connecting, as Mellers puts it, "the jungle within the mind and the asphalt jungle of a rapidly industrialized metropolis." Part four explores interrelationships between wilderness and machine through the work of Carl Ruggles, Varese, Partch, Reich, and the Australian, Peter Sculthorpe. Finally, the erasure of border between wilderness and civilization is the focus in works by Ellington and Gershwin. Suitable for both musicians and non-musicians. c. Book News Inc.

Rufus Guinchard

Author : Kelly Russell
Publisher : St. John's, Nfld. : H. Cuff
ISBN 13 : 9780919095212
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Rufus Guinchard written by Kelly Russell and published by St. John's, Nfld. : H. Cuff. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dictionary of Newfoundland English

Author : George Morley Story
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802068194
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Newfoundland English written by George Morley Story and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1982 to international acclaim, the Dictionary of Newfoundland English introduced the world to an incredibly rich dialect with deep roots in Ireland and the English West Country.

Newfoundland mummers' Christmas house-visit

Author : Margaret R. Robertson
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 177282352X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Newfoundland mummers' Christmas house-visit written by Margaret R. Robertson and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the practice of mummery in Newfoundland including a discussion of mummering time, groups, costumes, and behaviour. The author argues that mummery reflects cultural values and is a ritual response to a liminal state.

Music in a New Found Land

Author : Wilfrid Mellers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571147243
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Music in a New Found Land written by Wilfrid Mellers and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Day the World Came to Town

Author : Jim DeFede
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062103288
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book The Day the World Came to Town written by Jim DeFede and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway’s Smash Hit Musical Come from Away, Featuring All New Material from the Author When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded passengers with an overwhelming display of friendship and goodwill. As the passengers stepped from the airplanes, exhausted, hungry and distraught after being held on board for nearly 24 hours while security checked all of the baggage, they were greeted with a feast prepared by the townspeople. Local bus drivers who had been on strike came off the picket lines to transport the passengers to the various shelters set up in local schools and churches. Linens and toiletries were bought and donated. A middle school provided showers, as well as access to computers, email, and televisions, allowing the passengers to stay in touch with family and follow the news. Over the course of those four days, many of the passengers developed friendships with Gander residents that they expect to last a lifetime. As a show of thanks, scholarship funds for the children of Gander have been formed and donations have been made to provide new computers for the schools. This book recounts the inspiring story of the residents of Gander, Canada, whose acts of kindness have touched the lives of thousands of people and been an example of humanity and goodwill.

Sweetland: A Novel

Author : Michael Crummey
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871407914
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Sweetland: A Novel written by Michael Crummey and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic tale of an endangered Newfoundland community and the struggles of one man determined to resist its extinction. The scarcely populated town of Sweetland clings to the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline has finally reached a head, with the mainland government offering each islander a generous resettlement package— the only stipulation being that everyone must leave. Fierce and enigmatic Moses Sweetland, whose ancestors founded the island, is determined to refuse. As one by one his neighbors relent, he recalls the town’s rugged history and its eccentric cast of characters. For fans of The Shipping News, Michael Crummey’s prose conjures up the mythical, sublime world of Sweetland’s past amid a storm-battered landscape haunted by local lore. In a spare style that belies “huge emotional depth and heart” (Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You), Crummey masterfully weaves together the past and present, creating in Sweetland a spectacular portrait of one man’s battle to survive as his world vanishes around him. Winner of Newfoundland Book Award Short-listed for the Governor’s General Award Winner of the CBC Bookie Award for Fiction Finalist for the Winterset Prize

The Shipping News

Author : Annie Proulx
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743519809
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book The Shipping News written by Annie Proulx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate Quoyle’s Point, in a house empty except for a few mementos of the family’s unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives. Newfoundland is a country of coast and cove where the mercury rarely rises above seventy degrees, the local culinary delicacy is cod cheeks, and it’s easier to travel by boat and snowmobile than on anything with wheels. In this harsh place of cruel storms, a collapsing fishery, and chronic unemployment, the aunt sets up as a yacht upholsterer in nearby Killick-Claw, and Quoyle finds a job reporting the shipping news for the local weekly, the Gammy Bird (a paper that specializes in sexual-abuse stories and grisly photos of car accidents). As the long winter closes its jaws of ice, each of the Quoyles confronts private demons, reels from catastrophe to minor triumph—in the company of the obsequious Mavis Bangs; Diddy Shovel the strongman; drowned Herald Prowse; cane-twirling Beety; Nutbeem, who steals foreign news from the radio; a demented cousin the aunt refuses to recognize; the much-zippered Alvin Yark; silent Wavey; and old Billy Pretty, with his bag of secrets. By the time of the spring storms Quoyle has learned how to gut cod, to escape from a pickle jar, and to tie a true lover’s knot.

Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780920508138
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)

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The Colony Of Unrequited Dreams

Author : Wayne Johnston
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307374688
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Colony Of Unrequited Dreams written by Wayne Johnston and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, a Canadian bestseller, is a novel about Newfoundland that centres on the story of Joe Smallwood, the true-life controversial political figure who ushered the island through confederation with Canada and became its first premier. Narrated from Smallwood's perspective, it voices a deep longing on the part of the Newfoundlander to do something significant, “commensurate with the greatness of the land itself.” Smallwood’s chronicle of his development from poor schoolboy to Father of the Confederation is a story full of epic journeys and thwarted loves, travelling from the ice floes of the seal hunt to New York City, in a style reminiscent at times of John Irving, Robertson Davies and Charles Dickens. Absorbing and entertaining, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams provides us with a deep perspective on the relationship between private lives and what comes to be understood as history and shows, as E. Annie Proulx commented, “Wayne Johnston is a brilliant and accomplished writer.” The New York Times said, “this prodigious, eventful, character-rich book is a noteworthy achievement: a biting, entertaining and inventive saga.... a brilliant and bravura literary performance.”