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Diplomas. Documents certifying the successful passing of examinations.

Music education in Canada has progressed from rustic beginnings in the colonial period to the present time when music training is available both for amateurs and professionals, and, indeed, is an increasingly important facet of general education.

Music education research. The disciplined inquiry into the learning and teaching of music. The various modes of inquiry - descriptive, experimental, historical, and philosophical - are determined to a great extent by the methodologies and techniques employed.

IntroductionMusic libraries are organized collections of scores, recordings, and literature about music and such materials as clippings, concert programs, posters, or films. Many also own archival materials (see Archives).

Musicology is the study of the historical development of Western art music, folk and traditional music (ethnomusicology) and aspects of music in acoustics, aesthetics, psychology and sociology.

IntroductionMusicology may be described as the pursuit of musical knowledge and insight by accurate, objective, and critical methods of fact-finding, analysis, and interpretation.

Nadia Turbide. Musicologist, teacher, translator, broadcaster, b Montreal 12 Jun 1945; BA music (Montreal) 1965, ARCT 1966, B MUS (McGill) 1969, MMA musicology (McGill) 1976, PH D musicology (Montreal) 1986.

New Brunswick Registered Music Teachers' Association. Organized in 1950 as the New Brunswick Music Teachers' Association, it affiliated with the CFMTA in 1954 and in 1961 incorporated and changed its name.

In May 1871, the government of New Brunswick, under George Luther Hatheway, passed the Common Schools Act. This statute provided for free standardized education throughout the province, the establishment of new school districts, the construction of schools, and stricter requirements regarding teaching certificates. This law also made all schools non-denominational, so that the teaching of the Roman Catholic catechism was prohibited.

Newfoundland and Labrador Music Special Interest Council (previously known as the Music Council of the Newfoundland Teachers' Association). One of 20 special-interest councils of the Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers' Association. It was formed in 1960 and affiliated with the CMEA in 1975.

Newfoundland Registered Music Teachers Association (NRMTA). Incorporated in July 1987, the NRMTA had its beginnings in 1986 when 10 teachers from St John's joined the Nova Scotia Registered Music Teachers' Association (NSRMTA).

It was a classic dustup - one that some wags dubbed "the premier versus the Pope.

Normal Schools were first established by provincial departments of education in mid-19th-century British N America as institutions to train teachers for the rapidly expanding tax-supported public education systems of the day.

The North-West Schools Question was a conflict between church and state for control of education in the North-West Territories (now Saskatchewan and Alberta) in the late-19th century. The controversy was similar to other educational crises across Canada, and reflected the larger national debate about the future of Canada as a bilingual and bicultural country.

In 2012, the Nova Scotia Agricultural College merged with Dalhousie University, becoming the University’s Faculty of Agriculture.

The first degree-granting art school in Canada, through the 1970s it was on the cutting edge of the international art world; for the 21st century, the school has adapted to the more complex and diverse needs of artists and designers in the digital age.

Nursery School, as part of early childhood education, refers to group experience for 3 and 4 year olds and includes DAY CARE as well as various types of "nursery" programs.

New Brunswick, the province with the highest level of linguistic duality in Canada, adopted the Official Languages of New Brunswick Act (OLNBA) in 1969, a few months before the federal government enacted its own Official Languages Act. New Brunswick’s recognition of two linguistic communities (1981), mechanisms for enforcement of the law and redress for infractions (2002), and regulations on bilingual commercial signage (2009) have been the boldest measures in support of bilingualism of any province in the country. Francophones in New Brunswick represented 32.4 per cent of the population in 2016.

Ontario Music Educators' Association (OMEA). A non-profit organization that represents music educators in Ontario. Its main objective is to "provide leadership in establishing and maintaining high standards of school music throughout Ontario and Canada.

Ontario Registered Music Teachers' Association (ORMTA) - Ontario Music Teachers' Association (OMTA) 1936-46. Organization formed in Toronto in 1936 to promote and maintain high musical and academic qualifications among its members. An earlier OMTA (Canadian Society of Musicians) was founded in 1885.