Gaston Allaire

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Joseph Georges-Émile Gaston Allaire (born June 18, 1916 in Berlin, New Hampshire ; † January 15, 2011 ) was a Canadian musicologist and teacher , pianist , organist and composer .

Life

From 1940 to 1947 Allaire was a piano student of Auguste Descarries and organ student of Eugène Lapierre at the Conservatoire national in Montreal . From 1948 to 1950 he studied counterpoint, orchestration and composition with George Rochberg in Philadelphia, from 1953 to 1956 music history and composition at the University of Connecticut .

In the 1960s he went on study trips through Europe. He taught at Loyola College in Montreal from 1962 to 1967 , then for a year at the University of Montreal and finally until his retirement in 1984 at the Université de Moncton , where he was later awarded the title of Professor emeritus.

Allaire has published articles in musical journals such as the Paris Revue de musicologie and The Music Scene , as well as for the journals of the universities of Boston and Moncton. For the publication of the Magnificats by Claudin de Sermisy (1970) he received an award from The Canada Council . From 1968 to 1971 he was President of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music (CSMT).

In the late 1960s Allaire gave numerous organ and piano concerts with the CBC . In addition to an orchestral suite, he composed motets , a mass , organ works and film music.

Works

  • Suite laurentienne for orchestra, premiered in 1949
  • Organ piece on French Christmas carols , 1951
  • Soundtrack for The Man on the Beach
  • Noël! Noël! Noël! for mixed choir and orchestra, 1959
  • Marche , 1964-65
  • Petite Suite , 1964-65
  • Prelude and Fugue for String Orchestra

Fonts

  • Les messes de Claudin de Sermisy , Revue de musicologie 1967
  • La rythmique de notre langue parlée , Revue de'l Université de Monceton, 1968
  • L'essor de l'imprimerie musicale en France sous François 1er , ibid. 1969
  • ( Ed. ) Claudin de Sermisy's Magnificats , American Institute of Musicology 1970
  • The Theory of Hexachords, Solmization and the Modal System , ibid. 1972
  • (Ed.) Holy Week Music , ibid. 1972

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SURNAME Allaire, Gaston
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allaire, Joseph Georges-Émile Gaston
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian musicologist and educator, pianist, organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin, New Hampshire
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 2011