Kenneth Peacock

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Kenneth Howard Peacock (born April 7, 1922 in Toronto ; † November 22, 2000 ibid) was a Canadian musicologist , composer and pianist .

Life

Peacock studied piano at the Toronto Conservatory of Music with Alma Cockburn (1935) and Reginald Godden (1948–49) and also took private lessons with Mona Bates in Toronto (1938–39) and Michel Hirvy in Montreal (1950). At the University of Toronto he studied music theory with Healey Willan and Leo Smith (1941–43) and composition with John Weinzweig (1944–46). He continued his composition studies in 1950 with Francis Judd Cooke at the New England Conservatory in Boston.

During the time of his training, Peacock gave private piano lessons and performed as a pianist. From 1951 to 1972 he worked as a staff member at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in the field of the music of the indigenous peoples of Canada and the music of ethnic minorities. He has published articles in magazines such as Alphabet , Bulletin of the CFMS , Ethnomusicology and Journal of American Folklore, and contributed to the music collections of Helen Creighton , Robert Klymasz and Alan Mills . Composers like Harry Somers and Violet Archer and singers like Alan Mills and Tom Kines used material from Peacock's collections.

A selection of his music ethnological recordings appeared on the LPs Indian Music of the Canadian Plains (1955) and Songs of the Newfoundland Outports (1984), as a musician he worked on the Songs and Ballads of Newfoundland (around 1956). Peacock was awarded the Order of Canada in 1982 and the Marius Barbeau Medal of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada in 1998.

Works

  • Bridal Suite for piano, 1947
  • Sonata for violin and piano, 1947
  • Essay for clarinet and strings, 1949
  • String Quartet , 1949
  • Songs of the Cedar , cantata for mezzo-soprano, flute, cello and double bass, 1950
  • Children's suite for piano, 1950
  • Idioms for piano, 1950
  • Rituals of Earth, Fire and Darkness for choir and orchestra, 1950
  • Toccata for piano, 1958
  • Essay on Newfoundland Themes for orchestra (commissioned for Ernest MacMillan ), 1961

Fonts

  • The Native Songs of Newfoundland , 1960
  • A Survey of Ethnic Folk Music across Western Canada , 1963
  • Songs of the Newfoundland Outports , three volumes, 1965
  • A Practical Guide for Folk Music Collectors , 1966
  • Twenty Ethnic Songs from Western Canada , 1966
  • Songs of the Doukhobors , Ottawa 1970
  • A Garland of Rue , 1971
  • Marius Barbeau , 1984
  • Culture and continuity: A personal reminiscence of the nineteen-sixties , 1995
  • Folk and aboriginal music / La musique folklorique et aborigène

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personal data
SURNAME Peacock, Kenneth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peacock, Kenneth Howard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian musicologist, composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 2000
Place of death Toronto