Kenneth Peacock
Biographic Data
| ID | 104454 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Peacock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Peacock |
| SIGNATURE | PEACOCK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Connecticut State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Profile of a Lifetime: A Musical Autobiography
Ross Lee Finney at Eighty-five: Weep Torn Land
In November 1864, while the Civil War raged in the Eastern United States, five hundred Cheyenne were slaughtered in an unprovoked surprise attack near Fort Bent, Colorado. This atrocity, committed by the Colorado Volunteers who were associated with the Union Army, is remembered as the Sand Creek Massacre. Although not represented on stage, this massacre serves as the focal point of Ross Lee Finney's new opera, Weep Torn Land.' On stage, the dual …
Instruments to Perform Color-Music: Two Centuries of Technological Experimentation
In our multi-media age, low-cost technology has facilitated the creation of convincing artistic works that combine music and colored light. The most elusive aspect of this art, historically termed ‘color-music’, has been the light-projection instrument. Attempts to develop such a device date from the eighteenth century and, since that time, many machines have been proposed. The author discusses the most significant of these instruments which, in …
Songs of the Newfoundland Outports
Songs of the Doukhobors; An Introductory Outline
Establishing Perimeters for Ethnomusicological Field Research in Canada: On-Going Projects and Future Possibilities at the Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies
lthough Canada and United States have very similar pluralistic and multi-ethnic societies, their approach to internal development is often quite different. For years Canadian politicians and journalists have been using phrases like cultural mosaic and unity in diversity to describe Canadian ethos. And when Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism began publishing its three volumes of recommendations on English-French relationships in a …
An Introduction to the Ukrainian-Canadian Immigrant Folksong Cycle
The Song Tradition of Tristan da Cunha
Folksong
Nine Songs from Newfoundland
T HE National Museum of Canada first began research on the music of Newfoundland in I950, when Margaret Sargent (McTaggart) was sent there to make tape-recordings of folk songs. She covered the area around St. John's and journeyed to Branch, a small fishing village or outport in St. Mary's Bay, where she discovered many interesting Old World songs. The following year, I travelled by car throughout the southeastern part of the island, visiting out…
Instruments to Perform Color-Music: Two Centuries of Technological Experimentation
In our multi-media age, low-cost technology has facilitated the creation of convincing artistic works that combine music and colored light. The most elusive aspect of this art, historically termed ‘color-music’, has been the light-projection instrument. Attempts to develop such a device date from the eighteenth century and, since that time, many machines have been proposed. The author discusses the most significant of these instruments which, in …
Nine Songs from Newfoundland
T HE National Museum of Canada first began research on the music of Newfoundland in I950, when Margaret Sargent (McTaggart) was sent there to make tape-recordings of folk songs. She covered the area around St. John's and journeyed to Branch, a small fishing village or outport in St. Mary's Bay, where she discovered many interesting Old World songs. The following year, I travelled by car throughout the southeastern part of the island, visiting out…
Folksong
The Song Tradition of Tristan da Cunha
Establishing Perimeters for Ethnomusicological Field Research in Canada: On-Going Projects and Future Possibilities at the Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies
lthough Canada and United States have very similar pluralistic and multi-ethnic societies, their approach to internal development is often quite different. For years Canadian politicians and journalists have been using phrases like cultural mosaic and unity in diversity to describe Canadian ethos. And when Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism began publishing its three volumes of recommendations on English-French relationships in a …
An Introduction to the Ukrainian-Canadian Immigrant Folksong Cycle
Songs of the Doukhobors; An Introductory Outline
Songs of the Newfoundland Outports
Instruments to Perform Color-Music: Two Centuries of Technological Experimentation
In our multi-media age, low-cost technology has facilitated the creation of convincing artistic works that combine music and colored light. The most elusive aspect of this art, historically termed ‘color-music’, has been the light-projection instrument. Attempts to develop such a device date from the eighteenth century and, since that time, many machines have been proposed. The author discusses the most significant of these instruments which, in …
Ross Lee Finney at Eighty-five: Weep Torn Land
In November 1864, while the Civil War raged in the Eastern United States, five hundred Cheyenne were slaughtered in an unprovoked surprise attack near Fort Bent, Colorado. This atrocity, committed by the Colorado Volunteers who were associated with the Union Army, is remembered as the Sand Creek Massacre. Although not represented on stage, this massacre serves as the focal point of Ross Lee Finney's new opera, Weep Torn Land.' On stage, the dual …
Profile of a Lifetime: A Musical Autobiography
History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (4 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Canadian Identity and History (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)