 Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, Pioneer of Writing for Percussion: On Trakadie (1970) 
As the first woman to win the Prix d’ Europe in composition, in the avant-garde of writing and research in electroacoustic music, and a fighter for the arts and the role of the composer in society, Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux was undeniably a pioneer. She was also the first Quebecer to compose a work for solo percussion. In the tradition of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Zyklus (1959) and Helmut Lachenmann’s Intérieur I (1966), Trakadie (1970), for percussion and fixed sounds, represents the beginning of this discipline in Quebec. In addition to offering an analysis of Trakadie, this article places the work in context by discussing two other pieces written by Coulombe Saint-Marcoux in the same time period: Séquences (1968, rev. 1973) and Épisodie II (1972).