This is where you will submit your analysis assignment, worth 20% of your final grade. Your assignment should be in Chicago style with a bibliography that
includes references to course material in addition to sources from your own research. It should be between 600-750 words in length, and will be graded
based on the rubric found below.
Choose a song or tune from one of the resources listed below. Please note, your musical choice does not have to originate in Canada, though you do have to
find a recording by a Canadian.
Research the tune/song’s history and background (are there any notable or interesting musical characteristics? Is it very widespread, somewhat obscure, or
very obscure? Do we know who wrote it?)
Find two different recordings of the same piece of music. One of these recordings MUST be by a Canadian musician. Include links or upload files of these
versions along with your written assignment. These do not have to be professional recordings; they can be field recordings or videos from YouTube.
Do a comparative musical analysis of the two versions you found using the same musical elements as criteria from the listening assignment
(volume/dynamics, instruments, speed/tempo).
Explain why you chose this piece – were you drawn to the title, composer, an artist who recorded it, or for another reason?
1.Indigenous Music of Canada: Sounds of The Great Trail
-> https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0FIEpKmg5aYnyDLBi4WJGM
2.Broadside Ballads Online
-> http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
3.MacEdward Leach and the Songs of Atlantic Canada
-> https://www.mun.ca/folklore/leach/songs/index.html
4.Irish Traditional Music Archive
-> https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/sounds
5.Traditional Ballad Index
-> https://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/Contents.html
6.Songs of Newfoundland and Labrador
-> http://gestsongs.com/indexnav.htm
7.Bowing Down Home: Prince Edward Island Fiddling Traditions
-> https://bowingdownhome.ca/
8.Identitairs Quebecois
-> https://www.mustrad.udenap.org/
9.Songs and Dances of Quebec
-> https://search-alexanderstreet-com.lib-ezproxy.concordia.ca/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Crecorded_cd%7C610668
10.Acadian Fiddle
-> https://www.acadianfiddle.com/new-page
11.Tout passe : chants d’Acadie
-> https://cumontreal-naxosmusiclibrary-com.lib-ezproxy.concordia.ca/catalogue/item.asp?cid=ACD22522