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The Tuning Of The World
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Author : R. Murray Schafer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
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The Soundscape
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Author : R. Murray Schafer
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1993-10-01
The Soundscape written by R. Murray Schafer and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-10-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
The soundscape--a term coined by the author--is our sonic environment, the ever-present array of noises with which we all live. Beginning with the primordial sounds of nature, we have experienced an ever-increasing complexity of our sonic surroundings. As civilization develops, new noises rise up around us: from the creaking wheel, the clang of the blacksmith’s hammer, and the distant chugging of steam trains to the “sound imperialism” of airports, city streets, and factories. The author contends that we now suffer from an overabundance of acoustic information and a proportionate diminishing of our ability to hear the nuances and subtleties of sound. Our task, he maintains, is to listen, analyze, and make distinctions. As a society we have become more aware of the toxic wastes that can enter our bodies through the air we breathe and the water we drink. In fact, the pollution of our sonic environment is no less real. Schafer emphasizes the importance of discerning the sounds that enrich and feed us and using them to create healthier environments. To this end, he explains how to classify sounds, appreciating their beauty or ugliness, and provides exercises and “soundwalks” to help us become more discriminating and sensitive to the sounds around us. This book is a pioneering exploration of our acoustic environment, past and present, and an attempt to imagine what it might become in the future.
R Murray Schafer A Collection
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Author : R. Murray Schafer
language : en
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Release Date : 1979
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R Murray Schafer
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Author : Stephen Adams
language : en
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : PRO Canada
Release Date : 1983
R Murray Schafer written by Stephen Adams and has been published by Don Mills, Ont. : PRO Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
My Life On Earth And Elsewhere
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Author : R. Murray Schafer
language : en
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
Release Date : 2014-05-14
My Life On Earth And Elsewhere written by R. Murray Schafer and has been published by The Porcupine's Quill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Music is central to many of R. Murray Schafer’s memories. ‘One of the sounds that I’d almost forgotten until I began to write this chronicle was the tinkling of the piano keys when my mother used to wipe them with a wet cloth,’ he writes. ‘In the early years the high and low keys would be passed over quite quickly while the middle notes got the heavy scrubbing.’ The detail of this small, nearly-forgotten childhood memory is a poignant example of the way sounds can remain present in the imagination even when they are originated in the distant past. Schafer recounts childhood summers spent in Manitoba lassoing gophers (and being paid two cents a head for them) and a music education marked by his cheerful but total resistance to the conventional instruction that was available. His youthful travels in Germany, France, Austria, Italy and Eastern Europe are recreated in a lively, impressionist style with plenty of comic and melancholy stories gleaned from his diaries of the time, including an account of a folk music convention in Communist Romania (which he attended with imaginative but shaky credentials identifying him as a representative of the CBC, The Globe and Mail, the University of Toronto Press and even the Kiwanis Club). The conference proving dull, Schafer eluded the government minders and took an unauthorized trip to see a girl he had met on the train, and despite knowing nothing of the language spent an idyllic few days with her at her parents’ remote village -- while the police questioned every young man with a beard in the area of Bucharest in a fruitless search for the suspected ‘spy.’ On his return to Canada, teaching assignments took him first to Newfoundland, then to Vancouver, where he created the World Soundscape Project. In 1975 Schafer resigned from university teaching and for many years has devoted himself full time to writing and composing. My Life on Earth and Elsewhere continues the story of his domestic and international musical adventures up to the present day.
R Murray Schafer
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Author : L. Brett Scott
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2019-01-21
R Murray Schafer written by L. Brett Scott and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-21 with Music categories.
R. Murray Schafer: A Creative Life is the authoritative exploration of the life and work of this preeminent Canadian composer, artist, educator, and activist. Working closely with the composer and his family, L. Brett Scott has created the most up-to-date and accurate exploration of Schafer. Scott draws on many public and private sources, including the composer’s own journals and correspondence, which have not been previously available to researchers. Scott discusses Schafer’s extensive writings, including his research writings on Ezra Pound and E. T. A. Hoffmann, and his multiple works of fiction. The volume also includes a detailed summary of Schafer’s work in the field of acoustic ecology and recognition of his role as founder of the World Soundscape Project as well as an overview of his writings on creative music education. With complete discussions of his theater works, choral compositions, compositions for voice, chamber pieces, orchestral compositions, and early and transitional works and a chronological list of compositions and select discography, this volume presents the most comprehensive study of Schafer and his enduring legacy.
The Tuning Of The World
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Author : R. Murray Schafer
language : en
Publisher: New York : Knopf
Release Date : 1977
The Tuning Of The World written by R. Murray Schafer and has been published by New York : Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Music categories.
The soundscape is our acoustic environment, the ever-present noises with which we all live. The author suggests that we now suffer from acoustical overload and are less able to hear the nuances and subtleties of sound. Our task, he maintains, is to listen, analyze and make distinctions in spite of sound pollution.
Patria
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Author : R. Murray Schafer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Patria written by R. Murray Schafer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Opera categories.
Here was a very special ritual - completely without a sense of striving, and promising no rewards. You wandered about amused and amazed, never sure whether you were there to be entertained or entertaining - for the moment you won a balloon or lost your money while upside down on a sky ride, you became an actor, watched by others and excited by their watching. Patria (Latin for 'homeland') is composer R. Murray Schafer's life's work, a cycle of ten related music dramas created and performed over the last thirty years. Each play in the cycle has a common theme - the search of two lovers for one another through the many labyrinths of life on Earth. Though many of the same characters reappear in different sections, the scale of the cycle is vast, unfolding across many cultures and drawing extensively from numerous world mythologies. Many of these works are conceived for performance in unusual environments: on the surface of a lake, deep in a forest or even in a deserted mine. Some begin at dawn, sunset or midnight and some last for as long as a week. This new, definitive edition of Patria contains all ten parts of the cycle, plus photos, pages from the scores (complex visual artworks in their own right), commentary on the performance of the pieces and Schafer's personal essays on aestheticism. In these remarkable works, the arts court one another: theatre meets ritual, mythology fuses with art, and the line between performer and audience blurs.
The New Soundscape
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Author : R. Murray Schafer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
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R Murray Schafer And The Plot To Save The Planet
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Author : Jesse Stewart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-07
R Murray Schafer And The Plot To Save The Planet written by Jesse Stewart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07 with Composers categories.
Journey with Jesse as he captures the biography of one of culture's most colourful characters, R. Murray Schafer. Starting with their search for a lost child in the Haliburton Forest, to exploring soundscapes of Japan, to an unexpected battle with the mysterious Morgellons, Jesse exposes an insidious plot to destroy the planet and arrives at the same conclusion as Murray. Art should be dangerous. Over a period of one year the author shadowed R. Murray Schafer to penetrate the multifaceted genius of Canada's preeminent composer, artist, agitator, environmental activist and the originator of the term "soundscape."