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- Title
Lomax on Canadian Folk Music.
- Authors
Gregory, David
- Abstract
The article focuses on the works of Alan Lomax on Canadian folk music. It relates Lomax's script of a program titled "The Folk Music of Canada," produced for the BBC and aired in May 1954 which presented Marius Barbeau's overview of Canadian traditional song. Lomax reportedly characterized the music as pentatonic structures of one phrase repeated three or four phrases of equal length to give the song asymmetrical balance. He also noted that the native songs are similar to those in north-eastern Asia.
- Subjects
LOMAX, Alan, 1915-2002; FOLK music; PENTATONIC scales; NATIONAL music; BARBEAU, Marius, 1883-1969
- Publication
Canadian Folk Music, 2002, Vol 36, Issue 4, p18
- ISSN
0829-5344
- Publication type
Article