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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.
"Jean Coulthard’s harmonies touched me personally and warmed my soul. She has her own musical language, partly West Coast, mostly from another golden universe. She was comfortable with herself, yet kept searching for a different shade of colour to start another canvas. She is a Canadian treasure."
—Peter Togni, Composer and CBC Radio Host
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William Bruneau, Professor Emeritus at UBC and a friend of Jean Coulthard for 30 years, has been a life-long advocate and occasional performer of Canadian music. He is editor of the papers of Bertrand Russell and is at work on a history of UBC.
"Jean Coulthard's harmonies touched me personally and warmed my soul. She has her own musical language, partly West Coast, mostly from another golden universe. She was comfortable with herself, yet kept searching for a different shade of colour to start another canvas. She is a Canadian treasure." -- Peter Togni
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- PublisherRonsdale Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1553800230
- ISBN 13 9781553800231
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages216
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 216 pp. with B/W illustrations, index, lists of works published and recorded, and timeline of Coutlhard's life with social context. Slight cornerwear, with 1/4" tear at upper corner of back spine. "Jean Coulthard was one of Canada's best-loved composers of the twentieth century. Today her music is more widely known than ever. Born in Vancouver to a musical family, Coulthard composed resolutely Canadian music that maintained the values of the great European classical tradition. Through text, music and images, [the book] explores her careers as composer, teacher, wife and mother. Coulthard studied with Vaughan Williams, Schoenberg, and Bartok, then mentored two generations of composers, all the while creating her own evocative music in ever genre. For ninety-two years, she watched her city grow from pioneer beginnings to become a major economic and cultural centre. Jean Coulthard's eight decades of astonishing creativity are remarkable in themselves, but then, she was by any standard an extraordinary Canadian.". Seller Inventory # 002232
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. B/W Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. 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. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 010407
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; slight wear to corners; otherwise spine straight and uncreased; appears unread; Jean Coulthard was one of Canada's best loved composers of the 20th century. Born in Vancouver to a musical family, Coulthard composed resolutely Canadian music that maintained the values of the great European classical tradition. Through text, music, and images, this book explores her careers as composer, teacher, wife and mother. Coulthard studied with Vaughan Williams, Schoenberg, and Bartok, then mentored two generations of composers, all the while creating her own evocative music in every genre. For 92 years she watched her city grow from pioneer beginnings to become a major economic and cultural centre. Jean Coulthard's eight decades of astonishing creativity are remarkable in themselves, but then, she was by any standard an extraordinary Canadian. Seller Inventory # 007660
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