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This article provides an overview of the literature devoted to women composers in Quebec during the twentieth century. Research on women's accomplishments in concert music began largely in the wake of International Women's Year in 1975, a pivotal moment when women asserted their rightful presence in the world of artistic, literary, and musical creation. Highlighted by a non-exhaustive inventory of concerts, reviews, and research works presented in the appendix, 1975 appears as a turning point within the Quebec creative and critical milieus.
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Taking as its starting point an article by Jean-Wilfrid Garrett published in 1950 in the journal Polyphonie, in which the author deplores the refusal (or incapacity) of composers of contemporary music to adapt to the medium of radio, Réjean Beaucage wonders if today's contemporary composers are also well on their way to missing the boat once again, this time with the new technologies which integrate sound and image. Examining several works by contemporary music composers published in the last several years on ambiophonic video-DVD (Tristan Murail, Fausto Romitelli, Steve Reich, etc.), the author notes that productions of this kind are still few and far between, and enjoins composers—in the manner of Garrett a half-century earlier—"not to be content to illustrate in a conventional manner some arid theory, but to search, in parallel, its application to the living world."
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