The music of Canada has been strongly influenced from aboriginals, British, and French. The major influence of Canada come from United States because of proximity and contact migration from this place. Before the European came to Canada there were many aboriginal groups that have their own traditions as the music also with their own instrument.
In the 17th century French settlers and explorers brought with them traditions about their music that was inculcated to aboriginal children what would change in the 18th century where compositions of music began in Canada's colonies and settlements but they have not composers because many of them were not able to create new music in this century, for this reason, they preferred to do other activities but related with music as choirs, church organist, teaching music or belonged to regimental bands.
In this century, also a very important event took clear as Canada's first published music that were two operas written by New France composer, Joseph Quesnel. In the 19th century the first appearance of a piece of music was produced in a magazine called la Minerve in 1831 which will lead to the expansion of music in all Canada and then for the rest of the world.
Serious events would be produced in this country due to the Great Migration by Irish, British and Scottish immigrants, and for this reason the expansion of the music was seen as a great event in this period. In this century also was published the song most popular in the century by Hamilton Robert, clearly as a new historical note in the evolution of music. Towards 20th century appeared the first Canadian’s composers whose works were published in local newspapers such as The Montreal Gazette and Toronto Empire. All of this accompanied for a great and important change in the culture of Canada because Robert Nathaniel was the first black Canadian composer in the century.
In the end of 30s and due to great depression of Canada(1929-1939) the majority of people listened to it called swing(from jazz), some patriotic were produced songs during the Second World War, although this compositions reached not success as the popular music. After of the Second World War emerged Canadian bands, specifically, school bands including instrumental music, a great explosion of music for the youth. After of this there was a long period in where music stopped until technology would be introduced in the mid 1970s with the music on Fm radio stations, where the time of reproduction of their songs were more expensive than normal time before.
Canadian music changed since 1980s being an important marketing tool for Canadian musicians the Music Videos, this revolutionized the world music because the music not only was found in cassette but also in video through television. In the same year the O Canada officially was the national anthem of this country, although the letters were composed in 1880. But a big change coming to the musical culture at the end of 20th century because Canadian singers were the greater international commercial success, clearly a great change in the way of produce music because before of that only men musicians would have created and sung composition.
Actually, the music of Canada suffered because of the internet and the independent music, this is produced because of we know that the music today can be downloaded by internet and free, being a big problem for record companies. For this in 2010, a new copyright legislation was introduced. In all this history of the music in Canada we saw a root that is the aboriginal music, and their branches as the influence from other nations that came to Canada to make their mark, in this case the music, but also there was a whole evolution passing throught many processes like wars, movements, revolutions, etc. Influencing in what is Canada today and that is very important to reach the culture and progress of a country, their history that today feeds us with knowledge about a rich culture, now is important in the world.
