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You can now search The WholeNote's online Blue Pages by Musical Category.
The Wholenote's Blue Pages (online only) are all "tagged" according to 18 categories, listed below with explanatory notes.
To conduct a search using our Categories, just select one of the search links below for the search results you wish to find.
We at The WholeNote are generous with our categories. They are intended as broad suggestions to the various musical communities that comprise our readership, rather than an attempt to strictly define musical genres and styles. Some Blue Pages may have more than one category tag because events sometimes belong to more than one category.
This category includes all performances by ensembles of wind instruments (except for jazz bands, which are tagged as Jazz).
This category includes classical music performances by small groups or solo musicians.
This tag is for vocal groups large and small, as well as any concert in which a choir is included.
This category is for dance performances, or any musical event that includes dance.
This category is for Baroque, Renaissance and Medieval music. As well, any other performances that are "historically informed" or approached with attention to period-performance techniques are included.
Here, "folk music" means traditional music from North America, the British Isles and other European countries. (Folk musics originating outside these regions are tagged as World music.)
Most references to jazz in The WholeNote appear in the club listings. However, jazz (and blues) performances in formal concert settings are included in the general concert listings.
This category is for musical events specifically programmed for young audiences.
This category includes staged theatrical productions in which music is prominent: opera, operetta, G&S, Broadway musicals, contemporary music-theatre, etc., as well as unstaged concerts of music theatre repertoire. (NOTE: There is also a separate "Opera" category, which contains only opera performances. See below.)
Here, the term "new" broadly means "art-music" that is modernist, postmodernist or otherwise contemporary in style. Concerts that are wholly devoted to new music, or that include significant new-music content, are included.
This tag is applied to staged opera productions, and also operatic concerts and recitals.
This category is for solo organ performances, or an organist performing with other musicians.
Here, "orchestra" means a large or small conducted group of instrumentalists – usually strings, winds and percussion, but possibly just strings – performing classical music.
This tag is used very rarely, when no other tag is suitable.
This category includes solo piano performances, piano duets, or concerts that include music for piano only. It also includes piano concertos with orchestra.
This tag is for musical performances that are contained within a religious service.
This category is for solo vocalist(s) with piano or small instrumental groups. It also includes vocalists appearing in concert with orchestras.
Here, "world music" means music from "folk" or "classical" traditions that originate outside the Western world.
Over the years, WholeNote has published a series of annual directories, to better enable musical organizations to communicate their activities to our readers. The Blue Pages is a comprehensive directory of music presenter profiles in which each organization describes who they are, what they do, and what they've got coming up during the current season. The Canary Pages is a directory of choirs, both amatuer and professional, connecting would be choristers with a wide variety of choirs to choose from. The Green Pages is our guide to Summer Music Festivals both in Ontario and beyond.
Fees are associated with participation in each of the directories. For information on how to include your organization, please call 416-323-2232 x.26 or e-mail karen@thewholenote.com
Launch Times (both print and online)
Blue Pages (presenter profiles)—October
Orange Pages (Music Education)—February
Canary Pages (choral)—May
Green Pages (summer festivals)—June
