ABSTRACT
Embedded within the Canadian Music Centre’s archive of scores, a substantial cache of works by settler composers belies the colonial history of Canadian art music in the twentieth century: more than 200 pieces make use of Indigenous song, text, themes, and stories, many of which were seldom if ever performed, and few were recorded. As an obscure and largely forgotten repertoire of music, it is for the most part inaccessible and unknown to the Indigenous communities whose songs remain incarcerated in the scores, highlighting the tacit violence of settler colonialism.
