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romantic and impressionistic, though more experimental material, including electronics, bitonal and quartal harmonies, unusual scales, serialism, and tone clusters, became more common from the 1960s. Elaine
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Coulthard composed around 350 works throughout her long career in most traditional genres: an opera, four symphonies, a violin concerto, three string quartets and other chamber music, many instrumental sonatas, and songs and choral music to
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67:, Coulthard was the daughter of Jean Blake Robinson Coulthard, a prominent and influential music teacher in Vancouver. Through her mother, she received her earliest musical training and was introduced at an early age to the work of French composers like
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its first performance in 1959 with the
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