Research Catalog

Title

Mapping Canada's music : selected writings of Helmut Kallmann / Helmut Kallmann ; John Beckwith and Robin Elliott, editors.

Author

Kallmann, Helmut, 1922-2012.

Publication

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Beckwith, John, 1927-
• Elliott, Robin, 1956-
• Beckwith, John

Description

x, 281 p. : ill.; 24 cm

Summary

Mapping Canada s Music is a selection of writings by the late Canadian music librarian and historian Helmut Kallmann (1922 C2012). Most of the essays deal with aspects of Canadian music, but some are also autobiographical, including one written during retirement in which Kallmann recalls growing up in a middle-class Jewish family in 1930s Berlin under the spectre of Nazism. Of the seventeen selected writings by Kallmann, five have never before been published; many of the others are from difficult-to-locate sources. They include critical and research essays, reports, reflections, and memoirs. Each chapter is prefaced with an introduction by the editors. Two initial chapters offer a biography of Kallmann and an assessment of his contributions to Canadian music. The variety, breadth, and scope of these writings confirm Kallmann s pioneering role in Canadian music research and the importance of his legacy to the cultural life of his adopted country. In the current climate of cuts to archival collections and services, the publication of these essays by and about a pre-eminent collector and historian serves as a timely reminder of the importance of cultural memory.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Kallmann, Helmut, 1922-2012
• Kallmann, Helmut
• Music > Canada > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in electronic formats.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Helmut Kallmann : A brief biography -- Helmut Kallmann & Canadian music -- Selected Writings of Helmut Kallmann. Studying music at a Canadian university, 1946-1949 (1949) -- Canadian music as a field for research (1950) -- The new Grove's: disappointment to Canada (1955) -- Introduction, from A history of music in Canada 1534-1914 (1960) -- Joseph Quesnel's Colas et Colinette (1963) -- Music Library Association digs up our musical Past (1966) -- James Paton Clarke, Canadas first Mus. Bac. (1970) -- The Music Division of the National Library: the first five years (1975) -- The Canadian League of Composers in the 1950s: the heroic years (1984) -- The making of a one-country music encyclopedia: an essay after an encyclopedia (1994) -- Music in the internment camps & after World War II: John Newmark's start on a brilliant Canadian career (1995) -- Franz Schubert in Canada: a historical survey of performance, appreciation, & research (1996) -- Taking stock of Canada's composers from the 1920s to the Catalogue of Canadian composers (1952) (1996) -- A selection of correspondence (1949/1966/1992) -- Mapping Canada's music: a life's task (1997) -- The matter of identity (2001) -- At home with the Kallmanns: a Schöneberg family in the 1930s (1992/2001).

ISBN

• 9781554588916
• 155458891X

OCLC

• 977863175
• SCSB-9929102

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library