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Historica edition |
- FIRST EDITION
- Introduction to the first edition
- The concept
- The need
- The realization
- Preparations
- Criteria
- Editorial process
- SECOND EDITION
- Introduction to the second edition
- The path toward a second edition
- Tasks and techniques
- Improving access
- The impact of the 1980s
- A contribution to Canadian self-awareness
- SECOND EDITION, ELECTRONIC VERSION, MAY 2001
- Introduction to the second edition, electronic version, May 2001
INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION, ELECTRONIC VERSION, MAY 2001
This electronic version of the Second Edition of The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (1992) is designed to enable musicians, music scholars, students, and music lovers globally to have immediate access to information about music in Canada. It is also hoped that the electronic edition of EMC will reflect Canadian music's richness and diversity. As noted in the introduction to the First Edition, EMC aims to describe Canada's musical heritage and culture in its breadth and depth: the historic and current manifestations of popular, folk, religious, concert, and other forms of music, as well as Canadian music's educational, critical, administrative, and commercial aspects. The evolution and the raison d'être of the EMC project are discussed more fully in the introductions to the paper-based First and Second Editions.
EMC's electronic edition, presented in both official languages, will continue to be updated on an ongoing basis over the next several years. As the Second Edition attempted to track those trends that had appeared since the original 1981 publication as well as to introduce new musicians and to elaborate on those whose careers had grown, so will this electronic edition carry on where the Second Edition left off.
As the electronic format allows the Encyclopedia's editors to make rapid textual changes, new articles will be introduced and contributors to the EMC's electronic edition will present points of view and areas of interest tempered and informed by the last decade of the twentieth century and the first years of the new millenium. Emphases may differ from earlier editions, depending on subject area. The EMC will continue to evolve to reflect not only the English, French and Aboriginal roots of Canadian music, but the many other cultural and ethnic groups which also comprise the Canadian people.
As it improves, EMC's electronic edition will use more images -- photos, sketches, manuscripts, and other visual aids -- to enhance the reader's experience. Ultimately, digital musical excerpts will be available to highlight scores or to give examples of music by specific composers, performers, or musical groups. As our use of electronic reproduction technology develops, video images will also be introduced.
Bibliographies, lists and discographies may be more limited in this format than in the original Second Edition. Discographies of current pop artists are usually available on the artists' own websites, or on those of their record companies. The National Library of Canada Music Division, the Canadian Music Centre, individual publishers and concert managers, musical histories, and scholarly and educational organizations can often provide the reader with material not included in the EMC electronic edition, via their own websites. As well, the reader can always go back to the print-based EMC for information omitted here.
As has been noted in the past, EMC is not a general musical reference source, as is, for example, Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. EMC addresses Canadian music only, and -- we hope -- thoroughly. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome and can be sent to:
emc@rcmusic.ca
Ezra Schabas, May 2001
Director-General, Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
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