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In the News (Sun 5 Jul 09)

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	Under The Boardwalk News
		Organizers of the 50th Anniversary Celebrations for the Canso Causeway are encouraging aspiring tunesmiths from across the province to share their memories and impressions of the Causeway in melody and verse in a recently announced Songwriting Contest, part of many activities commemorating the fabled fixed link’s impact on the region.
		The winning songwriter will perform their song during the "Songs on the Waterfront" show on August 11 and it may also be recorded on a CD to be sold during the Canso Causeway 50th Anniversary events from August 7 to 14.
		All song submissions must be original and unpublished as of September 1, 2004 and should be related to some aspect of the Canso Causeway.
	www.boardwalkmagazine.com /read.asp?newsID=137 (195 words)

	The Planet Sleeps: Cape Breton
		With its dramatic crags rising more than 1,750 feet above the sea, the island of Cape Breton is connected to the mainland of Nova Scotia by a mile-long causeway that stretches south across the Strait of Canso.
		"Growing up along the west coast of Cape Breton, 'Chì Mi Na Mórbheanna' was a popular song," said Heather Rankin, one of the vocalists with the group.
		Cape Breton was perhaps the first land sighted by the explorer John Cabot on the coast of North America, in 1497.
	www.sonymusic.com /artists/ThePlanetSleeps/cbreton.html (271 words)

	OhioLINK ETD: Bonse, Billee
		Both theory and practice demonstrate that structural imitation came to be most closely associated with several specific genres—including the sirventes (moralizing piece), tenso (debate song), coblas (song of few strophes), and planh (lament)—whose poetic structures were commonly modeled after those of the canso, the dominant genre of troubadour composition.
		In view of the sparseness of the musical record, however, one should give consideration to an alternate interpretation, namely that the tune preserved exclusively with a given troubadour’s sirventes and thereafter transmitted as his invention may actually have been borrowed from a preexistent canso whose melody is no longer extant in its original setting.
		In the remaining instances in which a sirventes, tenso, or other imitative type is preserved with a melodic unicum, scholars of troubadour song have tended to maintain that, absent melodic corroboration, the tune must be presumed original rather than borrowed.
	www.ohiolink.edu /etd/view.cgi?osu1074783188 (271 words)

	U-WIRE.com/CD REVIEW: Scrüj MacDuhk's 'Road to Canso' is Brit Isles with Canadian accent
		Scrüj MacDuhk is a band from Winnipeg that I first encountered and fell in love with at this year's Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival in Marquette, Mich. That's where I found out about their second CD, The Road To Canso.
		The longer the song lasts the faster the music (and your dancing) becomes, ending abruptly, only to lead you into the next song.
		At first the only instrument that accompanies her voice is a guitar, but by the time the chorus starts the sounds of the fiddle (played by Jeremy Penner), bass fiddle (played by Oliver Swain) and banjo (played by Leonard Podolak) appear and take you on the traveler's sailing trip.
	www.uwire.com /content/topae090600002.html (271 words)

	The Planet Sleeps: Cape Breton
		With its dramatic crags rising more than 1,750 feet above the sea, the island of Cape Breton is connected to the mainland of Nova Scotia by a mile-long causeway that stretches south across the Strait of Canso.
		"Growing up along the west coast of Cape Breton, 'Chì Mi Na Mórbheanna' was a popular song," said Heather Rankin, one of the vocalists with the group.
		Cape Breton was perhaps the first land sighted by the explorer John Cabot on the coast of North America, in 1497.
	www.sonymusic.com /artists/ThePlanetSleeps/cbreton.html (271 words)

	Troubadours and Courtly Love
		The escondig was the form used as a lover’s apologia, while the formal love song was known as the canzone, canso, or chanso.
		In the judgment of the troubadour, courtly love or fine amour was the source of all true virtue and nobility.
		Love could be directed at a lady of high nobility or at a woman of more humble descent.
	courseweb.stthomas.edu /medieval/francis/troubadours.htm (365 words)

	Recorded memory of theatre life in Nova Scotia - Mulgrave Road Theatre
		Wishing to convey the sense of a proud community and country in decline, The Mulgrave Road Show looked at Guysborough County, whose residents were left with a choice between "going down the road" or "going on the dole", a choice reflected in the song that gave the theatre its name.
		Formerly a centre of commerce with a CNR ferry terminal linking the mainland to Cape Breton Island, the town had fallen on hard times after the Canso Causeway opened in 1954.
		There’s an axe in the stump and a fork in the row.
	nstp.ucis.dal.ca /zouppa_5250.html (505 words)

	Troubadours & Instruments
		The two vielles that inspired Raimbaut de Vacqueiras' Kalenda Maya in the celebrated vida were, after all, playing an estampida, and not a high style canso.
		The only instrument mentioned in conjunction with "high style" song is the viola (= old French vielle).
		Certainly Pages' argument (12) -- that the vielle was introduced to this repertoire later, by minstrels in the North, as a way of overcoming boredom induced by the Proven\al-to-French language barrier -- seems considerably vitiated.
	www.pbm.com /~lindahl/articles/troubadours.and.instruments.html (2197 words)

	David Bradstreet's Venues & Accolades
		Stan Rogers Festival, Canso, N.S. Banff School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta
		Without a doubt, a classic folk song in any era."
		For this reviewer that occasion took place when I heard David Bradstreet perform Beresford Street (Concertina Man) at the Mariposa Folk Festival some years ago.
	www.davidbradstreet.com /va.html (467 words)

	STAN ROGERS - Canadian Folk Music Artist - Canadian places mentioned in Stan Rogers songs
		Sherbrooke is on the Eastern shore of NS, not to far from Guysborough County and Canso NS.
		Rogers fans also note that Sherbrooke was the name of two or three real-life privateer vessels from the era in which the song was set, and some believe the reference is to one of these vessels.
		Sherbrooke, NS -- " Barrett's Privateers " -- There is also a Sherbrooke in Quebec, but Sherbrooke, NS, is more likely the town referred to.
	stevebriggs.com /stanrogers/towns.html (467 words)

	OC - a modern group plays teh music of Mediaeval Languedoc
		The tale of the crusading war between the French and the Occitan people is told in Canso de la Croisada (Chanson de la Croisade, the Song of the Crusade) an epic poem written in the Occitan language (the Langue d’Oc, from which today’s Languedoc region gets its name).
		It's in French, but if you click here you will land on a page with a list of titles in the left margin.
		This poem of around 9,500 verses covers the period 1208 to 1219, but the Crusades dragged on until about 1230.
	www.franceforfreebooters.com /artmusic/songs.htm (739 words)

	ridingprofile.html
		MacNeil, a well-known entertainer who has written a satirical song that includes the words "I'm a Cape Breton barbarian" and the even better-known The Island, said he jumped ship because of what he witnessed as a card-carrying Liberal party member.
		The riding extends from Glace Bay through Richmond County up north to Cheticamp, then over the causeway to the tip of Canso, covering roughly 9,438 square kilometres.
		Cuzner in the race are former provincial Liberal candidate Kenzie MacNeil, 52, of Johnstown, near St. Peter's, who's now running for the Conservatives, and two newcomers: Shirley Hartery, 64, of Port Hawkesbury, who's offering for the New Democrats, and Seumas Gibson, 24, of Judique, the Green party candidate.
	www.herald.ns.ca /fedelect/ridings/CBCanso/ridingprofile.html (739 words)

	Gordon Bok, A Rogue's Gallery of Songs for 12-String
		Bok's lyrics added to the first are done in fun and are advice on how not to get anchored to any of the young women in Canso (Nova Scotia).
		On this CD, Bok sings another piece from Goulder's songbook, "January Man and other songs." "A Most Unpleasant Way, Sir" may be one of the most enigmatic songs in the English language.
		Maybe you know Dave Goulder's "The Dark North Sea." Bok and I are agreed that song is one of the loveliest songs in the English language.
	www.rambles.net /bok_roguesgallery.html (1051 words)

	ORB -- Medieval Music Glossary
		Effectively, this results in a patter song in which the top voice sings as fast as it can, the motetus moves somewhat more slowly and the tenor seems to move in slow motion.
		There are usually two pedes at the start of a canso.
		Machaut's work of that name from the fourteenth century is the earliest known setting of the complete mass ordinary (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus dei, and in this case also the Ite missa est) by a single composer.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /~cyrus/ORB/orbgloss.htm (1051 words)

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