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This article examines the diaphanous career of a few boys described as “musicians” and singers in the sources relating to Nouvelle-France. The bits of information that have been collected on these young men with no history make it possible to identify some of the motivations that led them to the colonies between 1660 and 1730, at a time when everything had yet to be built, if not consolidated, on the institutional level. Beyond this aspect, which is still little known in colonial cultural micro-history, the catalytic role of the army and the Church as a path to salvation for these former masters in search of a future after leaving the cathedral or collegiate churches of France is revealed. Whether they aspired to become ecclesiastics or sought to integrate the workings of the colonial administration as writers after being emancipated from the army, the few individuals we will meet in Quebec City and Montreal allow us to discreetly lift the veil on the fortunes of some of these children who spent their youth singing in the lower choirs, and thus to better understand their contribution to the cultural life of the French colony in Canada.
Keywords: musiciens d'église, maîtrises, bas-choeurs, colonies, church musicians, choirs, colonies
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The identity of man, legible in each act of his existence, will be approached through observation of that last of these acts: death. What image of himself, at once hazy and revealing, does he project on today's screen of death? And does this image correspond to the state of an individual's new work of contemporary music, changeable, impenetrable if not by his organization of the matter around him? Death and music mark the ends of man—end of his being, of his understanding—and their status as keepers of the kingdom render his utterances more vivid, more certain perhaps, in the same way that we speak more favorably about home once we have left it behind.
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AbstractIn this exchange with three women composers, Françoise Davoine draws a portrait of their risks, anguish and preoccupations. The speaking-style of the text has been preserved here, giving freshness to the statements as each woman talks about her situation, and the creative process, etc.
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L'histoire de la musique au Québec doit être étudiée à la lumière de son contexte de production. Un ensemble de facteurs sont fréquemment évoqués pour rendre compte de son développement au cours de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. Les influences artistiques et culturelles étrangères successives, l'avènement de la société de consommation de masse et des loisirs, la mondialisation et le développement technologique sont du nombre, tout comme l'encadrement des secteurs de la production et de la diffusion par les industries culturelles. On a également largement mis de l'avant l'incidence du nationalisme québécois et du mouvement indépendantiste sur l'épanouissement de la chanson et de la musique populaire francophone. Or, qu'en est-il de l'impact des politiques culturelles sur le cours de l'histoire de la musique? La …