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Communications in the North
Communications have played a special role in the North. Terrain, climate and distance made it difficult for northerners to communicate with each other or with southern Canada before the advent of electronic media. In traditional times, Inuit messages were passed through personal contact.
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Community Arts Council of Vancouver
Community Arts Council of Vancouver. Originally an advisory body, it was established in Vancouver in 1946, the first organization of its kind in North America.
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Community Broadcasting
Community Broadcasting is designed to fulfil social and cultural needs by allowing members of the audience to participate in decisions about programming and, in the case of radio, in the ownership of stations.
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Community Concert Associations
Community Concert Associations. Autonomous concert associations organized by individual communities and affiliated with Community Concerts, Inc, a subsidiary of Columbia Artists Management Inc, New York.
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Comox Valley Youth Music Centre
Comox Valley Youth Music Centre (formerly Courtenay Youth Music Camp).
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Comparative Literature
Comparative LiteratureComparative literature is the international or multilingual study of literary history, ie, of broad currents of thought and style and of major schools; of literary genres, forms and modes; of motifs and themes; of the presence of a work of literature, an author, a whole literature or even a country, in another national literature; of authors writing in different languages, but linked with "influences" and typological affinities. Comparative literature includes literary criticism and theory,...
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Competition Festivals
Competition festivals. Public, graded competitions for student and amateur classical musicians; school, amateur, and church choirs; and school, amateur, and civic instrumental ensembles. Contestants are adjudicated publicly by trained professionals who give them comparative marks.
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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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