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Canadian Music

Canadian Music. Part One: Traditional Music. Native Canadian. Traditional music was basic Drums, made of animal skins

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Canadian Music

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  1. Canadian Music Part One: Traditional Music

  2. Native Canadian • Traditional music was basic • Drums, made of animal skins • Voices provided music – rhythmic singing without words

  3. Native Canadian • Native people sang about the land, animals, weather and spirits. • A famous Native poem, written by Pauline Johnson, has become a famous Canadian folk song, called “Land of the Silver Birch”

  4. French Canadian • Tradtitional French Canadian music came, of course, from France • Many French songs grew very popular in France, as French Canadian people missed their home country • Si monmoinevoulaitdanser– “if my monk would want to dance”

  5. French Canadian • One of the most popular French Canadian folk songs is Un Canadien Errant (a wandering Canadian) • Written by a soldier after the Lower Canada Rebellion, a minor war in 1837. Some rebels were killed, others sent abroad to the United States, France, even Australia

  6. Traditional Canadian Instruments • Many typical instruments, like the guitar, drums, and piano, are used in Canadian music • Drums: Native Canadian influence • Spoons: Irish, Russian influence

  7. Traditional Canadian Instruments • Fiddle: European instrument, popular in Scotland, Ireland, Eastern Europe • Bodhran: traditional Irish drum • Accordion: German instrument

  8. East Coast (Maritime) Music • Many traditional songs were Irish-influenced, same instruments, musical style • Songs about fishing • Lively, simple music for dancing, singing along

  9. East Coast (Maritime) Music • Kitchen party: music, singing • I’s the B’y(I am the Boy) • Jack was Every Inch a Sailor

  10. National Anthem • Military (marching) songs • The Maple Leaf Forever • O Canada

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