Jean Coulthard

Bruneau, William and Duke, David Gordon

ISBN 10: 1553800230 / ISBN 13: 9781553800231

Published by Ronsdale, Vancouver, 2005

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SUBTITLED : A Life in Music '. In 1928, at the age of twenty, Jeran Coulthard won a Vancouver scholarshio that allowed her ti study musuic in England. Read more about : New England Conservatory, Vancouver Women's Musical Club, Frederick Chubb, Cologne, Kathleen Long, piano, composition, vaudeville, soprano, sonata, and Nelly Melba. These 216 pages - includes INDEX - cover her musical accomplishments and contributions. A goodly number of b/w photographs accompany text. Both authors have flat signed (2005) the title page. Volume is tight, bright and crisp throughout. No marks, no tears. Giftable ! Quote (p.97) : " ._.-. and still another in the salons of the day. Since the mid-seventeenth century, the learned and the wealthy (sometimes the same people ) had organized weekly or monthly gatherings of intellectuals and artists in Paris receiving rooms. For the young, it was ._._._. ." Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jean Coulthard
• Publisher: Ronsdale, Vancouver
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1553800230
• ISBN 13: 9781553800231
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: B/W Photographs
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

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Synopsis

Jean Coulthard demonstrated that a Canadian woman could be a successful professional composer, whose music was, and still is, played extensively in concert halls across Canada and internationally. Through her seven-decade career she composed in every genre of traditional classical music: opera, symphonies, concerti, chamber music, keyboard, voice, and choir. Coulthard's story was more than that of artist and teacher. She made a place for herself in a male-dominated university and, as a westerner, she fought for the artists of her community. As a traditionalist she upheld aesthetic values she believed important for her and for her audience. This insightful biography shows that behind the productivity and the contented family life, there were intriguing personal and professional friendships, international travel, and cultural politics. She knew and learned from Bartók and Schoenberg, yet in the end, she went her own Canadian way. The Coulthard story is deeply interconnected with twentieth-century Canadian art, and with the rise of Vancouver from provincial outpost to Pacific Rim metropolis. The authors describe several compositions from each stage of Coulthard's life, giving context and assessments of harmonic idiom, form and overall style.

About the Author

William Bruneau and David Gordon Duke