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Further Research: Canadian Women in Music
Compiled by Cheryl Gillard Music Division, Library and Archives Canada
Albani, Emma. Forty years of song. London: Mills and Bonn Ltd., [1911]. 285 p.
Amtmann, William. La musique au Québec, 1600-1875. Montréal: Éditions de l'Homme, c1976. 420 p. ISBN 0775905178
Amtmann, William. Music in Canada 1600-1800. [Montreal]: Habitex Books, c1975. 320 p. ISBN 088912020X
Benoît, Réal. La Bolduc. Montréal: Éditions de l'Homme, c1959. 123 p.
Bertrand, Joanne. "Elles..persistent et signent." Chansons d'aujourd'hui. --Vol. 14, no.1 (Mars 1991).-- ISSN 0227.-- P. 20-21
Bowers, Jane M. and Urban Bareis. "Bibliography on music and gender: women in music". -- World of music. 33.2 (1991). ISSN 00438774 P. 65-103
Canadian music: issues of hegemony and identity. Edited by Beverley Diamond and Robert Witmer. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press Inc., c1994. 615p. ISBN 1551300311
Cantin, Paul. Alanis Morissette: you oughta know. Toronto: Stoddart, c1997. 192 p. ISBN 0773758712
Caputo, Virginia. "Add technology and stir: music, gender, and technology in today's music classrooms." The recorder. Vol. 37, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1995). ISSN 07047231
Caputo, Virginia and Roberta Lamb. "Feminist theory and music II: a continuing dialogue: Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York". Canadian university music review. - - Vol. 14 (1994). ISSN 07100353. P. 182-187
Childerhose, Buffy. From Lilith to Lilith Fair. Vancouver: Madrigal Press, c1998. 128p. ISBN 1894160002
Citron, Marcia J. Gender and the musical canon. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 307 p. ISBN 0521392926 (bd.)
Cohen, Aaron. International encyclopedia of women composers. 2nd ed., rev. and enl. New York: Books and Music, U.S.A., c1987. 2 vol., 1151 p. ISBN 0961748508 (vol. 1), 0961748516 (vol. 2)
Creighton, Helen. The best of Helen Creighton. Selected and introduced by Rosemary Bachman. Hantsport (N.S.): Lancelot Press, 1988. 143 p. ISBN 0889993785
Dalen, Brenda. "The Composer's voice: 'what women can do.'" Canadian university music review. Vol. 16, no. 1 (1995). ISSN 07100353 P. 14-40
Dixon, Gail. "The string quartets of Barbara Pentland". Canadian university music review. Vol. 11, no. 2 (1991). ISSN 07100353. P. 94-121
Drinker, Sophie. Music and women: the story of women in their relation to music. Washington: Zinger, 1948. 323 p. ISBN 0892010118
Druckles, Vincent H. and Michael A. Keller. "Women and music". Music reference and research materials: an annotated bibliography. 4th ed., revised. New York: Schirmer, 1994. 740 p. ISBN 0028708229
Eastman, Sheila and Timothy J. McGee. Barbara Pentland. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, c1983. 134 p. ISBN 0802055621
Edwards, Barry et al. "Collecting the lore of maritime folk". Fugue. Vol. 2, no. 4 (December 1977). ISSN 07028393. P. 18-19, 27
Elliott, Robin. Counterpoint to a city: the first one hundred years of the Women's Musical Club of Toronto. Toronto: ECW Press, c1997. 249 p.-- ISBN 1550223062
French, Iris, ed. Association of Canadian women composers directory. Toronto: Association of Canadian Women Composers, 1987
French, Maida Parlow. Kathleen Parlow: a portrait. Toronto: Ryerson Press, c1967. 167 p.
Gates, Eugene. "Where are all the women composers?" Canadian music educator. -- Vol. 35, no. 5 (Spring 1994). ISSN 00084549 P. 17-19
Gillard, Cheryl A. "Women musicians in Canada: on the record at the Music Division." -- National Library news. Vol. 27, nos. 3-4 (March-April 1995). ISSN 00279633. P. 11-14. Titre français: «Les musiciennes canadiennes gravent leur nom dans l'histoire à la Division de la musique»
Giroux, Robert. Le guide de la chanson québécoise. Montréal: Triptyque, c1991. -- 179 p. ISBN 2890311244
Grégoire-Reid, Claire and Micheline Vézina-Demers. "Exposition au monastère des Ursulines de Québec." Les cahiers de l'association pour l'avancement de la recherche en musique du Québec. no 8 (mai 1987). ISSN 08211817 P. 80-85
Hambleton, Ronald. "Tea with Kathleen Parlow". Fugue. Vol. 2, no. 6 (February 1978). ISSN 07028393. P. 12-15
Hartig, Linda. Violet Archer: a bio-bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, c1991. 153p. ISBN 0313264082
Historical anthology of music by women. Edited by James R. Briscoe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1987. 402 p. ISBN 0253212960 (pa.)
Hixon, Don L. and Don A. Hennessee. Women in music: an encyclopedic biobibliography. 2nd ed. Metuchen (N.J.): Scarecrow Press, 1993. 2 vol., 1824 p. -- ISBN 0810827697 (set)
Kallmann, Helmut. A history of music in Canada, 1534-1914. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1960. 311 p. ISBN 0802050891, 0802061028
Kallmann, Helmut and Gilles Potvin, eds. Encyclopedia of music in Canada. 2nd ed. -- Toronto: University of Toronto Press, c1992. 1524 p. ISBN 0802028810. Titre français : Encyclopédie de la musique au Canada
Kennedy, Shauna. "The real and the perceived: the role of women in the music industry." Canadian music trade. Vol. 15, no.1 (January 1994). ISSN 02259435 P. 27-32
Kivi, Linda K. Canadian women making music. Toronto: Green Dragon Press, 1992. 134 p. ISBN 0969195583
Koskoff, Ellen. "When women play: the relationship between musical instruments and gender style." Canadian university music review. Vol. 16, no. 1 (1995). ISSN 07100353 P. 114-127
Kraglund, John. Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, Canadian women in the world of music. Ottawa: Public Archives, c1968. 16p. no ISSN
Kydd, Roseanne. "Les femmes compositeurs au Canada: données sociologiques et historiques." Sonances. Vol.6, no.3 (avril 1987).-- ISSN 07122438 P. 16-22.
Lazier, Kate. "Where are the women in the pop music business." The Canadian Composer. --no. 244 (October 1989). ISSN 0083259. P. 20-23. Titre français: la place de la femme dans les entreprises musicales
Lefebvre, Marie-Thérèse. La création musicale des femmes au Québec. Montréal: Éditions du remue-ménage, 1991. 148 p. ISBN 2890911020
Lefebvre, Marie-Thérèse. "Place aux femmes-compositeurs du Quebec." Les cahiers de l'association pour l'avancement de la recherche en musique du Québec. no 7 (mai 1988). ISSN 08211817 P. 79-89
LePage, Jane Weimer. Women composers, conductors and musicians of the twentieth century: selected bibliographies. Metuchen (N.J.): Scarecrow Press, 1980. ISBN 0810812983 (vol. 1), 0810815974 (vol. 2), 081082082X (vol. 3)
Littlejohn, Maureen. --"Women of spirit, soaring to new heights."-- Official programme '98 Juno Awards.-- P. 18-20, 23, 24. * no ISSN.
Lomax, Carolyn. --"An ugly one will distract me."-- Musicanada. no. 48 (May 1982). ISSN 07004745 P. 23,24. Titre français: Nommez-m'en cinq
Lomax, Carolyn. "Women Composers Band Together." Music magazine. Vol. 3, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1980). ISSN 07054009. P. 20-23
Lonergan, David. La Bolduc: la vie de Mary Travers, 1894-1941. Bic (Québec): Issac-Dion Éditeur, [1992]. 212 p.
MacDonald, Cheryl. Emma Albani: Victorian diva. Toronto: Dundurn Press Ltd., 1984. 205 p. ISBN 091967075X (bd.), 0919670741 (pa.)
MacMillan, Keith and John Beckwith, eds. Contemporary Canadian composers. -- Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1975. 248 p. ISBN 0195402448
McCartney, Andra. "The ambiguous relation." Contact (Canadian electroacoustic community). Vol. 9, no.1 (Autumn 1995). ISSN 08383340. P. 43-58. Titre français: Le rapport ambigu
McCartney, Andra. "The ambiguous relation." Contact (Canadian electoacoustic community). Vol. 9, no.2 (Spring 1996). ISSN 08383340. P. 29-47
McCartney, Andra. --"A prelude to ea gender issues." Contact (Canadian electroacoustic community). Vol. 8, no 2 (Spring 1995). ISSN 08383340. P. 68-74. Titre français: Un prélude aux problématiques en éa
McClary, Susan. Feminine endings: music, gender and sexuality. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991. 220 p. ISBN 0816618984 (bd.), 0816618992 (pa.)
McClary, Susan. "Towards a feminist criticism of music". Canadian university music review. Vol. 10, no. 2 (1990). ISSN 07100353. P. 9-18
Moogk, Edward B. Roll back the years: a history of Canadian recorded sound and its legacy: genesis to 1930. Ottawa: National Library of Canada, c1975. 443 p. Titre français: En remontant les années: l'histoire et l'héritage de l'enregistrement sonore au Canada, des débuts à 1930
Pegley, Karen. ""Places, everyone": gender and the non-neutrality of music technology."-- The recorder. Vol. 37, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1995). ISSN 07047231. P.55-59.
Potvin, Gilles. "Emma Albani (1847-1930)." Les cahiers de l'association pour l'avancement de la recherche en musique du Québec. no 7 (mai 1988). ISSN 08211817. P. 46-64
Roberts, Agnes. "The unequal symphony." Association of Canadian Women Composers Newsletter.-- Spring 1985. ISSN 11830395.-- P. 8-11
Rooney, Frances. "The Montreal women's symphony". Atlantis. Vol. 5, no. 1 (1979). ISSN 07027818. P. 70-82
Sabourin, Carmen. "La critique féministe étasunienne en musique: pertinence en milieu francophone Québécois." Canadian university music review. Vol. 18, no.1 (1997). ISSN 07100353 P.99-118
Sadie, Julie Ann and Rhian Samuel, eds. Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. New York: W.W. Norton, 1995. 450 p. ISBN 0393034879
Schwartz, Ellen. Born a woman: seven Canadian women singer-songwriters. Winlaw, B.C.: Polestar Press, c1988. 155 p.
Sclanders, Ian. "She's collecting long lost songs". Maclean's. Vol. 65, no. 18 (September 1952). ISSN 00249262. P. 14-15, 54-57
Shepherd, John. Music as social text. Cambridge (U.K.): Polity Press, 1991. 245 p. ISBN 0745608256 (bd.)
Sim, Sheila. "Gendered dialectics of the nineteenth century: foundations that have shaped the history of western art music." Canadian music educator. Vol. 39, no. 1 (Fall 1997). ISSN 00084549 P. 45-47
Steblin, Rita. "The gender stereotyping of musical instruments in the western tradition." Canadian university music review. - Vol. 16, no. 1 (1995). ISSN 07100353 P. 128-144
Toomey, Kathleen M. Musicians in Canada: a bio-bibliographical finding list. -- Edited by Kathleen M. Toomey and Stephen C. Willis. Ottawa: Canadian Association of Music Libraries, 1981. 185 p. ISBN 0969058314 (pa.). Titre français: Musiciens au Canada: index bio-bibliographique
Tremblay-Matte, Cécile. La chanson écrite au féminin: de Madeleine de Verchères à Mitsou, 1730-1990. Laval (Qué.): Éditions Trois, 1990. 391 p. ISBN 2920887165
Tremblay-Matte, Cécile. "Les chansonnières au Québec, 1960-76."-- Les cahiers de l'association pour l'avancement de la recherche en musique du Quebec.-- no 12 (avril 1990). ISSN 08211817-- P. 18-47
Turbide, Nadia. "Éva Gauthier (1885-1958): première cantatrice canadienne-française d'avant-garde." Les cahiers de l'association pour l'avancement de la recherche en musique du Quebec. no 7 (mai 1988). ISSN 08211817 P. 65-78
Upton, G.P. Woman in music. 6th ed. Chicago: McClurg, 1899.
Willis, Stephen. "Archives of Emma Albani at the National Library of Canada". National Library news. Vol. 25, no. 12 (December 1993). ISSN 00279633. P. 13-14. Titre français: «Documents archivistiques sur Emma Albani conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale du Canada»
Withrow, John B. "Ladies of the bow." Bravo.-- Vol.5, issue 30 (May/June 1988). ISSN 07146981 P. 54, 56, 57, 59
Women in music: an anthology of source readings from the Middle Ages to the present. - - Edited by Carol Nuels-Bates. New York: Harper and Row, c1982. 351 p. ISBN 0060149922 (bd.), 0060909323 (pa.)
Women making music: studies in the social history of women musicians and composers. -- Edited by Jane Bowers and Judith Tick. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986. 409 p. --ISBN 0252012046
