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13 mar. 2003 focusYour connection to news at Canada’s Outstanding Small University trent Trent University community, and in the the broader community, and to be news Peter Gzowski’s involved in the intellectual dia- logue of the University. Canada The event was sponsored by Dr. Quaker Tropicana Gatorade and Deborah Berrill and Trent University’s annual mented Mr. MacLean in his ers in Canada, and this Trent’s new Chancellor’s Dialogues, held on opening remarks. “He (Peter event sparked the cre- School of Tuesday, March 4, filled the Gzowski) gave us a clear picture ation of the Chancellor’s Education Wenjack Theatre with members in the mirror we’d been staring Dialogues. Topics have and of the Trent and Peterborough at,” and helped us see Canada in included the brain drain, Professional Learning are featured exten- sively in the March issue of Professionally Speaking, a mag- azine of the Ontario College of Teachers. On March 7, 2003, Dr. Brad White was featured in a Canadian Geographic televi- sion program that aired on the Discovery Channel. It was past Quaker Presi- called “Shapeshifter: The dent David Morton Coyote’s Legendary Resilience was in attendance. Revealed.” communities. A high-profile all its vastness Mr. Morton was group of panelists (Stephen and depth. instrumental in Lewis, Tom Jackson, Andrew Issues of the establishing Quaker Pyper, Molly Johnson and Bruce North, sports, Tropicana Gator- Kidd), and well-known modera- music, literature ade’s sponsorship tor Stuart MacLean did not disap- and politics were of the annual event. point the crowd. Their discussion discussed, and of “Peter Gzowski’s Canada” – questions were Photos, clockwise left The rights to alumnus Yann and whether the Canada that also accepted to right: Panelists Martel’s Man Booker Prize- Peter Gzowski portrayed on from the audi- Andrew Pyper, Molly winning novel, Life of Pi, have Morningside was an accurate pre- ence. the state of liberal arts and sci- Johnson, Stephen Lewis, Moderator been sold to Fox 2000 and sentation of our nation – was Peter Gzowski was the ence education, and the owner- Stuart MacLean, and Tom Jackson; the story is heading for the lively and thought provoking. Chancellor of Trent University ship of water as a resource. The Panelist Bruce Kidd; Stephen Lewis big screen. This development “Morningside made you feel from 1999 to 2002. In 1999 Mr. Chancellor’s Dialogues have and Stuart MacLean during a humor- was explored in a Globe and like it, whatever it was, was hap- Gzowski facilitated a session at reflected Mr. Gzowski’s desire to ous moment in the Chancellor’s Mail article in mid-February, pening in the next room,” com- the University about young writ- highlight current issues to the Dialogues. which featured an interview with Fox 2000 screenwriter Dean Georgaris. Trent University’s logo, typeface Ontario’s and tagline underwent a reintegra- strengthening Minister of tion over the past six months Enterprise, resulting in a strengthening of the a Opportunity logo’s graphic integrity, the intro- symbol and Innova- duction of a second colour and In pulling together new guide- tion, Jim the creation of a new “wordmark.” lines for the Trent University logo, dents and, after several presenta- of the traditional Garamond type- Flaherty, visit- The process was sparked by staff from the Communications tions, fixed on a shade of green face for the word Trent, adding a ed Peterbo- the need to promote consistent Office worked with experts from that approximated the well-recog- stylized “R” to reflect both the rough in late use of the Trent logo nized forest green associated with river imagery and the flexibility of February and throughout the Uni- theTrent identity. They recom- Trent’s learning environment. The had an oppor- versity, and preserve mended a new second colour be word University was set in a sans tunity to talk the recognition and applied to the word Trent, a grey- serif face to add stability and sim- with Trent tradition that exists in blue that echoes the Otonabee plicity to the wordmark. Though President Trent’s visual identity. river and the grey tones predomi- the words of the current tag line Bonnie Patterson, along with Faculty, students, staff, nant in Ron Thom’s architecture were not changed, the guidelines business leaders from the alumni and the com- on Symons campus. (The grey- do provide two options for community. He praised the munity have a lot of blue is not shown in this article attaching it to the wordmark DNA Cluster Project and the affection for the emblem that fea- theToronto design firm Amoeba due to the colour limitations of when it is required. role that Trent and its partners tures the sword embedded in the Corp, well known for their work this publication.) The Trent University logo have played in developing the waves. It is a symbol that embod- on Ryerson’s logo, the Leafs.com Essential to the process was made its initial debut in 1965 initiative. ies the spirit of the University – Web identity, and the now fixing on a typeface that could based on the coat of arms for the rooted in the history of the com- famous “I am Canadian” cam- stand the test of time while city of Peterborough. The waves munity where Trent makes its paign for Molson. Amoeba con- reflecting Trent’s culture and envi- home. sulted with faculty, staff, and stu- ronment. The solution made use continued on page 2 very unlike the bows of today.” The citole just completed by Prof. Hagman is based on a 13th- medieval century Italian sculpture and is a 4-stringed instrument that pro- melodies duces a wonderful sound. During the medieval period musicians played primarily in one key and always incorporated Professor Roy Hagman, chair of medieval choir – called Hurly drone notes into their music. For the Modern Languages Burly – with the pronunciation instance, if they were playing a Department at Trent University, of medieval languages,” says Prof. fiddle tune, they would play the has a passion for the Middle Hagman, who is now a key play- melody on one string and, all the Ages. er in the group. Not only does he while, have the bow moving “I am a linguist and I have sing and continue to sort out across a second string to produce been interested in medieval lan- issues of pronunciation with an underlying static note. The guages for a long time. When I Hurly Burly, but he has also hurdy-gurdy, a bizarre-looking was a graduate student I became introduced a whole new element instrument, operates in the same interested in Old Provençal, the to the group – instrumental fashion. It is box that holds a original language of southern accompani- mechanical violin, and the musi- France and the language of the ment on cian turns a crank to produce a troubadours,” explains Prof. reconstruct- consistent drone accompaniment. Hagman. “There are still some ed medieval Hurly Burly practices weekly, people in the hills of France who instruments. and more frequently leading up speak it, but it is a language that There to a concert. They typically per- will probably die out over the were a Celtic form three local concerts each next century.” harp and year and sometimes travel further Old Provençal is the first ver- recorders afield to illustrate medieval nacular language in Europe used used in the music. For instance, during the to create a body of lyric poetry, group before week of February 17, 2003, the the troubadour’s songs. Trouba- Prof. group performed at Casa Loma as dours were medieval lyric poets Hagman’s part of a medieval presentation from southern France, northern arrival, but Prof. Roy Hagman with a medieval for school children. Italy and northern Spain who now a medi- citole (above) and a fiddle. “I love these instruments and I wrote poems of chivalry and eval fiddle, love to play folk music for hours courtly love from approximately hurdy-gurdy, with them,” smiles Prof. Hagman, 1100 to 1300 a.d. They had a plucked Hagman had to obtain all of the whose love of music and the tremendous influence on the psaltery, necessary materials, shape and Middle Ages has come together in development of European litera- hammered hollow out the wood, fit the a very serendipitous way. ❦ ture and approximately half were dulcimer, instrument with a top, strings, members of the nobility. medieval bridge, frets and any other items. As it turns out, many trouba- harp and “There’s some interpretation strengthening dours were musicians as well as occasionally involved because I work from a poets, and various illustrations medieval illustrations,” he explains. “The symbol and paintings from the Middle bagpipes are 12th-century fiddle was the first Ages show the artists with unique also used. instrument I made and I started continued from page 1 instruments. These instruments – Prof. Hagman has just built designed two of the instruments from scratch. No one I knew had which are quite unlike any mod- another medieval instrument, – the medieval fiddle and citole. built one. The instrument represent the lakes and rivers of ern instruments – have become a called a citole, which will soon Prof. Hagman had to rely on appeared first in Arabic countries the Trent system, while the sword fascination of Prof. Hagman’s, be incorporated into the group’s artistic renderings of the instru- in 945, and in Europe in the year is a symbol of the region’s earliest and over the last several years he repertoire. ments, from which he made his 1000 – it’s a teardrop fiddle, built explorer, Samuel de Champlain.

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