July 5, 200520 yr I've been working on this choral piece for women's choir and have been having trouble finding a text for it. My searches have been pretty random as my literacy begins with Asimov and ends in Piers Anthony. I was kind of hoping some people here could recommend somewhere(Maybe on the net?) to find writings/history/bibliographies of french-canadian poets. Let me know and thanks in advance.
July 5, 200520 yr Hi! I wish I could help you with the French Canadian texts, but I find it intriguing that you started writing a choral piece without having a specific text in mind first. I would personally find it difficult to match music to text that way. Was there a reason you started the music first?
July 8, 200520 yr Author Well, I had all these ideas coming to me while I was looking for a text that I didn't want to forget so I started jotting them down and now I have an almost complete choral piece with no words. HELP!!!
July 9, 200520 yr Hey, If you're looking for online resources you could simply search for text or peotry in the public domain on any search engine. (assuming you want public domain) There a couple sites I've stumbled upon before. http://www.hti.umich.edu/p/pd-modeng/ http://www.academicinfo.net/canlit.html Do you live in Canada? I only ask because most public libraries should have anthologies of canadian literature and french-canadian literature. A few specific books that may be useful (Althoug I haven't seen them, so I can't say how useful they'll be but...) Cotnam, Jacques. 1982. Poètes du Québec. Montréal: Fides. Donna Bennett and Russell Brown, editors. A New Anthology of Canadian Literature in English. Geddes, Gary, ed. 1988. 15 Canadian Poets X 2. Toronto: Oxford University Press. Anyhow, I hope that's helpful.
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