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	Music of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		French immigrants to Quebec established their musical forms in the future province, but there was no scholarly study until Ernest Gagnon 's 1865 collection of 100 folk songs.
		Music was dance -oriented and requested luck in hunting, gambling, or weather, and only rarely, if ever, expressing traditional purposes like love or specialized forms like work songs and lullabies.
		Classical music in Canada is performed by a variety of orchestras, such as the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and many smaller orchestras and groups; such as the Canadian Brass.
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	Nunavut
		Coat of Arms of Nunavut The coat of arms of the territory of Nunavut, Canada, known officially as The Arms of Her Majes...
		Isachsen, Nunavut Isachsen is a settlement on the western shore of Ellef Ringnes Island in the Sverdrup Islands, in the...
		Kivalliq Region, Nunavut Kivalliq Region (formerly known as Keewatin Region) is a region of Nunavut.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/nunavut.html (418 words)

	Inuit Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Music has been an important part of daily life in Nunavut, and it has helped define Inuit culture through rapidly changing times.
		Of all forms of traditional Inuit music, none was more popular than drum dancing, which played a part in almost every gathering, whether it be a celebration of birth, a marriage, the changing of the seasons, a successful hunt, a first kill, a greeting for visitors, or to honour someone who had died.
		European music first came to the Inuit from whalers and traders of the Hudson’s Bay Co. in the form of songs and instruments, especially the mouth organ, button accordion, fiddle, and Jew's harp.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~soules/media112/zine99/vanessa/inuit.htm (741 words)

	Memorial University: Music Media and Place: Who we are (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		She studies Hawaiian music and is especially interested in the history of colonial institutions and phenomenological approaches to the study of music.
		She holds a Bachelor of Education and a Masters of Music from the University of Toronto and is the past director of several Toronto choirs.
		Mary’s most recent teaching position was in Arviat in Nunavut where she taught high school choral music for three years and founded a choir called Arviat Imngitingit (Arviat Singers) at Qitiqliq High School with both students and adults from the community.
	www.mun.ca /music/mmap/who/index.htm (1531 words)

	Nunatsiaq News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Nunavut MLA James Arvaluk is found not guilty of a charge of assault causing bodily harm.
		Nunavut residents grieve the loss of Christine Egan, a well-known northern nurse who went missing while visiting her brother on the 105th floor of the south tower of the World Trade Centre on Sept. 11.
		Nunavut's commercial fishing interests suffer a big blow when the Supreme Court of Canada rejects NTI's appeal of an earlier court decision that upheld Ottawa's turbot quota allocations in Baffin Bay and Davis Strait.
	www.nunatsiaqnews.com /archives/nunavut020104/news/nunavut/20104_2.html (2741 words)

	Netscape Search Category - Nunavut
		Nunavut Planning Commission Information on Nunavut land claims (before the creation of the territory).
		Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. Goal is to give Inuit control of their destiny as well as strengthen unity, promote culture, language and values.
		Nunavut Bibliography Focuses on the negotiation and implementation of the Nunavut Land Claim Agreement and the design and implementation of the Nunavut Government.
	search-intl.netscape.com /Regional/North_America/Canada/Nunavut?style=subcat_ca (190 words)

	Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
		CARAS aims to showcase and promote Canadian artists and music and is the governing body of the Juno awards.
		In 2002, the Prairie Music Alliance expanded to incorporate the Western Canadian provinces and territories (B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut).
		As an offshoot of the Music Education Fund, this program is intended to improve music education in Canada by providing individual grants to selected schools that demonstrate potential but are in need of funding to ensure sustained growth.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=U1ARTU0000542 (535 words)

	CREATIVE CARE FOR CHILDREN at HOME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Although the use of music therapy in the paediatric hospital setting has increased over the past twenty years, most existing pediatric music therapy literature is not specific to palliative care but relates rather to the care of children with cancer.
		Music therapy service is individualized, and is based on the needs, strengths and desires of the child and family.
		Music made with the therapist is recorded on a tape that may provide a tangible memory after the child’s death.
	www.musictherapy.ca /docs/confproc/2004/sparling.html (7168 words)

	NUNAVUT
		The tone for the composition of this piece was set by the news of an alarming increase in the suicide rate among Inuit youth during the winter of 1994 and by the constitutional turmoil two years earlier, during which Canadians refused to grant our country's aboriginal people constitutional recognition as a distinct society.
		This is immensely expressive music by a fascinating and deeply poetic Greek/Canadian composer.
		Both quartets are multicultural musical odysseys, full of fascinating observations on the troubled age in which we live.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~chatzis/Nunavut.htm (1732 words)

	Nunavut and B.C. Education Ministries sign licensing pacts
		New SOCAN licensing agreements signed recently by the province of British Columbia and the territory of Nunavut could serve as models and inspiration to the rest of the country.
		Acknowledging its responsibilities to music creators in a letter sent to SOCAN in September, Nunavut's Deputy Minister of Education expressed her appreciation for the work SOCAN undertakes on behalf of its members, and agreed to take out a blanket licence.
		The Nunavut agreement follows a long-standing, similar blanket-licence agreement that's been in place for more than 10 years with the Quebec Ministry of Education, and another one voluntarily signed last spring by the British Columbia Education Ministry (the latter encompassing more than 1,700 schools).
	www.socan.ca /jsp/en/news_events/news_archive/Nunavut.jsp (230 words)

	Western Music - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Music, Western, the music of Europe and of areas of the world settled by Europeans.
		Western music is one of several separate, highly developed...
		This definition is obviously very broad, but a narrower one would exclude too much.
	encarta.msn.com /Western_Music.html (114 words)

	NUNAVUT
		Visitors to Nunavut have great opportunity to observe unique species in their natural habitat though the vast territory prevents seeing all of the wildlife in one visit.
		The polar bear is the world’s largest carnivore and symbolizes the wild, rugged landscape of Nunavut.
		They are excellent swimmers and spend most of their lives either on the ice floes or in the water.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/canadian_tourism/76987 (1044 words)

	Westcoaster.ca - Arts & Life - Nunavut Festival Pulls Accordion Man North
		Nunavut’s largest summer arts festival will showcase a West Coast resident.
		Fox said his biggest challenge will be transposing piano music to the accordion.
		Music’s nothing new to Fox who said he began playing piano as a child, switched to brass in Grade 7, studied the trumpet in junior high and took on the tuba in high school.
	www.westcoaster.ca /modules/AMS/print.php?storyid=843 (328 words)

	> Regional> North America> Canada> Nunavut
		CBC News: Nunavut - - History, statistics, and public reaction regarding the new territory.
		Nunavut Bibliography - - Focuses on the negotiation and implementation of the Nunavut Land Claim Agreement and the design and implementation of the Nunavut Government.
		Nunavut Planning Commission - - Information on Nunavut land claims (before the creation of the territory).
	www.wizzle.co.uk /dir/Regional/North_America/Canada/Nunavut (290 words)

	Calvin College - Music Department - Scholarships
		If I receive a music scholarship, I agree to take private lessons in the area of the award and participate in an appropriate faculty-directed ensemble for the duration of the scholarship.
		Everyone who is interested in serious music study through private lessons and participation in an ensemble is welcome to apply for a music scholarship.
		Scholarship winners are required to take private lessons (in the area of the award) and participate in an appropriate faculty-directed ensemble for the duration of their scholarships.
	www.calvin.edu /academic/music/scholars/freshman_form.stm (888 words)

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		Nunavut Bibliography - Focuses on the negotiation and implementation of the Nunavut Land Claim Agreement and the design and implementation of the Nunavut Government.
		Nunavut ("Our Land") Canada - General overview of area people, politics, land use and resources.
		Nunavut Planning Commission - Information on Nunavut land claims (before the creation of the territory).
	www.newhomemaker.com /odp/?browse=/Regional/North_America/Canada/Nunavut (274 words)

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		One of the powerful tools you can have as when attempting independent music promotion is a website.
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		Nunavut is a new Canadian territory that came into being on April 1, 1999, through the division of the Northwest Territories.
		The creation of the Nunavut territory is the result of two agreements: the Nunavut political accord, and the Nunavut land claims agreement.
		A Nunavut-wide Inuit organization called Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (also known by the commonly-used acronym "NTI") is responsible for administering the money and land that Nunavut Inuit now own under their land claim agreement, for ensuring that governments and others carry out their legal obligations, and for promoting Inuit language and culture.
	www.srlook.com /?p=67274&category=Nunavut (555 words)

	Nunavut facts, Nunavut travel videos, flags, photos - National Geographic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Carved out of the eastern half of the Northwest Territories, Nunavut ("our land" in the Inuktitut language) became Canada's third territory on April 1, 1999.
		Nunavut is roughly the size of Alaska and California combined.
		Nunavut winters last for nine months, and the average temperature in January hovers around minus 6¡C. The Polaris lead-zinc mine on Little Cornwallis Island is the world's northernmost metal mine.
	www3.nationalgeographic.com /places/provinces/province_nunavut.html (284 words)

	PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 1987 - 1997
		Nunavut ; The Cikada ensemble (Norway); Fertility Rites ; Beverley Johnston, marimba.
		On October 5 Equivoque was performed by accordionist Joseph Petric at the Rendezvous Festival of Canadian Music in London and it was released at the same time as part of Petric's new CD.
		During the fall of 1989 Hatzis was involved in a number of free-lance activities, such as teaching music at York University's Dance Department and writing music criticism for the Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~chatzis/events97.htm (3788 words)

	Debates (Hansard) -- Legislative Assembly of Nunavut
		Speaker, we have been in contact with the people of Nunavut as regular members, we’ve held phone-in shows and through other means of media access and we had planned to talk about it again in a regular members’ caucus concerning Nunavut Day.
		First of all with the support of the House of Nunavut, last year we were able to put in 600 thousand dollars into the first Nunavut nursing program and that is one of the first training programs to be able to fill the capacity with our nursing staff in particular.
		Chairman, so that the Government of Nunavut doesn't re-invent the wheel but to take some of the experiences and some of the set backs some of the other jurisdictions have had with tele-health and tell them that and be able to use that experience so that we don't make the same mistake.
	www.assembly.nu.ca /old/english/hansard/final3/20000413.htm (15414 words)

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	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		Inuit music Inuit folk music has long been based primarily off percussion, used in dance music, as well as vocals, including the famous throat singing tradition.
		Modern musicians from Nunavut generally play country music country or gospel music gospel, though traditional music and other styles retain some popularity.
		Susan Aglukark, a major recording star in Canada, was raised in Arviat, Nunavut Arviat in Nunavut.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Music_of_Nunavut.html (428 words)

	Nunavut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the Inuit language of Inuktitut, Nunavut means "Our Land." It is the name given to the ancestral home of the Inuit of the central and eastern Arctic, and the very newly-created Territory of Nunavut in Canada's Eastern Arctic.
		One of the most significant parts of the land claims agreement is the establishment of new co-management institutions in the Arctic.
		As part of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement, the Commission will help the Inuit of the central and eastern Arctic manage their settlement lands as well as co-manage Crown lands.
	www.firstpeoples.org /land_rights/canada/whats_new/nunavut_.htm (515 words)

	AWARDS
		The composition Nunavut for string quartet and computer generated tape is a brilliant work bringing together such disparate elements as Inuit throat singers, railway sounds and string quartet in a synthesis that is unique to the Canadian landscape and psyche.
		Besides the awards, which are among the largest and most prestigious in the broadcast community, the greater impact of the event lies in the showcasing of the programmes which result in world-wide broadcasts of the winners.
		In winning the Special Prize in the Radio Music Category [of the Prix Italia], Hatzis' work [Footprints in New Snow] was singled out by a distinguished international group of broadcasters as the single most important musical composition, created for the radio medium, to have been broadcast in 1996.
	www.chass.toronto.edu /~chatzis/awards.htm (707 words)

	Drum dancing, throat singing, Sikimuit international drummers and dancers, traditional throat singers, drummers ...
		Throat singing is a phenomenon unto itself, and a chance to listen to it is treasured by everyone who has experienced the Inuit culture firsthand.
		Early Europeans brought their musical traditions with them to the Arctic and left a lasting impression.
		Each region of Nunavut has its own distinct style of square dancing to accompany their individual musical style.
	www.innsnorth.com /html/inns-cur-music.htm (206 words)

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