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Encyclopedia > Alberta (song)

Alberta is the official provincial song of Alberta, Canada. It was adopted in preparation for the province's centennial celebrations in 2005. A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (possibly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features words (lyrics). ... Motto: Fortis et Liber (Strong and free) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Edmonton Largest city Calgary Lieutenant Governor Norman Kwong Premier Ralph Klein (PC) Area 661,848 km² (6th)  - Land 642,317 km²  - Water 19,531 km² (2. ... A centennial is a 100-year anniversary of an event, or the celebrations pertaining thereto. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...


The song was selected following a competition mandated by the Alberta Official Song Act, which was introduced in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta by Calgary Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) Wayne Cao in May 2001, and passed by the legislature in November of that year. The Legislative Assembly of Alberta meets in the provincial capital, Edmonton. ... Motto: Heart of the new west Area: 712. ... A Member of the Legislative Assembly, or MLA, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to the Legislature or legislative assembly of a subnational jurisdiction. ... Wayne Cao is an Albertan politician. ... This article is about the month of May. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... November is the eleventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. ...


The chosen song, selected by the 13-member Alberta Official Song Committee, was Alberta, written by Mary Kieftenbeld.


The song has been recorded in country and pop versions. Both recordings may be downloaded for free and in MP3 format from an Albertan government website. Country music, formerly called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, spirituals, and the blues. ... This article mainly describes pop as used in its more recent sense, as a subgenre of popular music. ... MP3 is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format invented in 1987 by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Erlangen, Germany. ...


External links

Albertan government webpage (links to the MP3s are available from this page)


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