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The Canadian Music Centre |
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
 The mission of the Canadian Music Centre is to promote the music of its Associate Composers, to encourage the performance and appreciation of Canadian music, and to make this music available throughout Canada and around the world
The Canadian Music Centre holds Canada's largest collection of Canadian concert music. The CMC exists to promote the works of its Associate Composers in Canada and around the world. The Centre makes available on loan over 15,000 scores and/or works of Canadian contemporary music composers through its lending library. The CMC sells more than 1200 CD titles featuring music of its Associate Composers and other Canadian independent recording producers. The Centre also offers an on-demand printing and binding service, music repertoire consultations, and is easily accessible through five regional centres across Canada, as well as through its website.
The CMC also engages in a number of National outreach projects, is digitizing all its scores and works, conducts research, and administers several Awards.
About the music:
Sound Adventure encourages young learners to explore sound and music fundamentals and to experience how our surroundings inspire our cultural expression. We invite you to take a trip across Canada, where you will discover basic music elements and sounds from the Canadian cultural landscape. You will encounter distinctly Canadian sounds, and sound ideas that cross many cultures. Ultimately, our hope is that you explore Canada's diverse musical landscape through additional examples of Canadian music found throughout the CMC website.
Later in the journey, you will have an opportunity to compose using sounds from the Canadian cultural landscape to embellish a fixed musical background and to listen to excerpts from Barry Truax's Canadian soundscape, Dominion.
The site is graphic- and sound-based only, and is not dependent on text explanation for use.
Soundmarks (natural and man-made sounds) found throughout the landscape are provided courtesy of the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University.
Contact:
20 St. Joseph Street
Toronto, ON
M4Y 1J9
Phone: (416) 961-6601 x 207
Fax: (416) 961-7198
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