Profiles of Alberta Women
Violet Archer – Supporting Information
Archival records
Ina Dennekamp fonds. The Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives at The Banff Centre. Banff, Alberta, Canada. https://www.albertaonrecord.ca/roberta-stephen
Violet Archer fonds. CA ACU SPC F0181. University of Calgary Special Collections, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/violet-archer-fonds
Awards and honours
1970 – Alberta Achievement Award
1971 – Honorary Doctorate of Music, McGill University
1978 – Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee Medal
1983 – Order of Canada
1986 – Honorary Doctorate of Music, University of Windsor
1989 – Honorary Degree, LLD, University of Calgary
1990 – Alberta Lifetime Achievement Award
1992 – Canada 125 Award
1993 – Honorary Doctor of Music, Mount Allison University
1993 – Honorary Degree, LLD, University of Alberta
N.d. – Lifetime membership, Canadian University Music Society
N.d. – Lifetime membership, Accademia Tibernia of Rome
N.d. – Honorary Fellow, Royal Canadian College of Organists
Selected compositions
Archer, Violet. Fanfare and Passacaglia. Toronto: BMI Canada, 1964.
Archer, Violet and Dorothy Livesay. Plainsongs: Four Songs to Poetry of Dorothy Livesay. Toronto: Plangere, 2014.
Archer, Violet. The Bell: Cantata for Mixed Chorus and Orchestra. Toronto: Canadian Music Centre, 1972.
A longer list of Violet’s compositions can be seen here: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/violet-archer
Further reading
Banfield, Emma, D. M. “Violet Archer: A Canadian Woman in Composition.” PhD diss. Northwestern University, 2008.
Hartig, Linda Bishop. Violet Archer: A Bio-bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
Qureshi, Regula Burckhardt, Albert La France, and Brenda Dalen, eds. “Voices of Women: Essays in Honour of Violet Archer.” Canadian University Music Review/Revue de musique des universités canadiennes 16, no. 4 (1995).
Willoughby, Angela Sue. “The Solo Piano Music of Violet Archer: A Study of Selected Didactic Works.” PhD diss. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1998.
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