Gaston Allaire

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

Life

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

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

Allaire published articles in musical journals such as the Revue de Paris musicologie and The Music Scene, designed also for the journals of the universities of Boston and Moncton. For the launch of the Magnificat of Claudin de Sermisy (1970 ) he received a prize of The Canada Council. From 1968 to 1971 he was President of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music ( CSMT ).

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

Works

  • Laurentienne Suite for Orchestra, UA 1949
  • Organ piece on French carols, 1951
  • Soundtrack to 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

Writings

  • Les messes de Claudin de Sermisy, Revue de musicologie 1967
  • La rythmique de notre langue Parlee, 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 Magnificat, American Institute of Musicology 1970
  • The Theory of hexachord, solmization and the Modal System, ibid 1972
  • (Ed. ) Holy Week Music, ibid 1972
  • Canadian Composer
  • Musicologist
  • University teachers (New Brunswick )
  • University teachers ( Concordia University)
  • University teachers (University of Montreal)
  • Born 1916
  • Died in 2011
  • Man
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