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Canadian Music Centre The mission of the Canadian Music Centre (CMC) is to promote the works of contemporary Québec and Canadian composers and to encourage the performance and appreciation of their works in Canada and abroad. It offers conductors and artistic directors highly professional advice in musical programming and administers a reproduction centre. It lends scores and rents out orchestra equipment. CMC services are designed to serve not only professional musicians, but also young people, amateurs, educators and the media. The CMC has a music library that houses thousands of recordings as well as documentation on composers. It organizes promotional activities and competitions to foster the composition of works for young performers. |
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Conseil francophone de la chanson The Conseil francophone de la chanson (CFC) is an international organization with members in 20 countries and its headquarters in Montréal. Its mission is to promote song and music in French-speaking communities around the world. Its members are groups, associations and organizations of professionals in song. The CFC publishes a newsletter, Rythmes, produces the television series Clip postal and acts as consultant for and runs cultural projects. It represents the interests of its members by acting, among other things, as a permanent observer at the World Intellectual Property Organization. The CFC endeavours to promote participation by artists from French-speaking communities in various international markets and festivals. |
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Conseil québécois de la musique The mission of the Conseil québécois de la musique (CQM) is to promote music by lobbying government authorities and various communities and to foster the development and coherence of the music community it represents. It provides consultation, information, promotion and administrative support services. It endeavours to make known and promote the diversity, quality and vitality of the Québec music community. Its members work in all areas of music, from early music through classical and romantic, to modern music, electro acoustic music, jazz and sophisticated music from outside the Western world. They come from all areas of music, including the publishing, recording and performing sectors, education, research, composition, and the production and presentation of concerts. |
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Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec www.mcc.gouv.qc.ca/conservatoire The Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec is a network of nine educational institutions offering professional training to performers and composers in the realms of music and drama. Music schools are located in Gatineau, Montréal, Québec City, Rimouski, Saguenay, Trois-Rivières and Val-d'Or. Drama schools are located in Montréal and Québec City, home of the conservatory's headquarters. The Conservatoire is noteworthy for the quality and specific nature of its pedagogical approach and plays a key role in artistic development. It is recognized for implementing in Québec high standards of musical and theatrical training. The criteria for excellence that underpin instruction and evaluation have contributed significantly to its reputation and the numerous successes of the artists it has trained.
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Guilde des musiciens du Québec www.gmmq.com The Guilde des musiciens du Québec regularly negotiates collective agreements setting minimum conditions for hiring instrumentalists and conductors in Québec and endeavours to improve the working conditions of its members and promote employment. It is not necessary to be a member of the Guild to work as a professional musician in Québec, but some producers and broadcasters hire only members of the Guild. |
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Musique Multi-Montréal Musique Multi-Montréal is a corporation whose mandate is to make known and promote musicians from the cultural communities. Musique Multi-Montréal endeavours to help ethnocultural artists advance in their field and develop their sense of belonging to the French-speaking community, stimulate understanding and cooperation between artists in different communities, professional associations and private and public organizations, and foster the integration of ethnocultural artists into the production and distribution market. The members of the corporation have access to a number of services; advice and technical and practical evaluation, referrals to producers, space in the newsletter for promoting shows, and so forth. In an effort to create the greatest possible socioeconomic impact, Musique Multi-Montréal organizes a showcase of world music, which presents some 30 new talents each year chosen from groups and individuals who were given auditions. |
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Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada The role of the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is to issue licences to music users for the musical works for which it administers performing rights in Canada. It collects the copyright fees for these licences and, in keeping with its rules, distributes royalties among the composers, author-composers, lyricists and music publishers whose works are performed for or distributed to the public. To this end, SOCAN continuously collates data on public performances of musical works on radio and television, in concerts halls and in many other places. |
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Société professionnelle des auteurs et des compositeurs du Québec The mandate of the Société professionnelle des auteurs et des compositeurs du Québec (SPACQ) is to improve the status of composers and writers of songs in Québec. It is a union-like organization that represents most creators of modern music: popular songs, music for film and television, theatre music, dramatic musical works and rock opera. SPACQ is particularly concerned with the defence of its members’ rights whenever their works are used. It claims fees for existing uses and for uses involving new technologies. It supports the preparation of studies and the drafting of briefs addressed to various standing or ad hoc parliamentary committees. |
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Société québécoise de recherche en musique The mandate of the Société québécoise de recherche en musique (SQRM) is to promote, support, conserve and distribute the work of music researchers in various fields (composition, ethnomusicology, music education, instrument making, performing, musicology, music therapy). It also brings together researchers from any discipline related to music who further the study and understanding of the phenomenon of music. Traçantes, its music research, writing and translation service, available principally to organizations, produces documents presenting and supporting the activities of those organizations (program notes, accompanying notes for recordings, studies, etc.). |
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