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Audio excerpt of “Requiems for the Party Girl” by R. Murray Schafer. Performed by soprano Neva Pilgrim, and accompanied by a small chamber orchestra.

Excerpt from R. Murray Schafer’s work Patria II: Requiems for the Party Girl. This excerpt demonstrates the composer’s use of graphic notation and of multiple languages within his work.

Performer's notes for Sun: A Composition for Choir. This gives insight into how Schafer intended his musical notation to be performed.

A letter thanking R. Murray Schafer for leading a workshop at a Toronto high school with New Music Concerts in the Schools.

This is a page from one of Schafer's books, Creative Music Education. This page features an example of Schafer's sight-singing exercises designed for school-aged students, and also includes a short letter from a music teacher.

A letter addressed to R. Murray Schafer posing nine questions about pedagogy.

This is a photograph of a page from one of Schafer's books, Creative Music Education. It demonstrates Schafer's belief that musical texture can be notated, and shows two textures that Schafer featured in his compositions-he titled these "clouds" and…

This is a photograph of a page from Schafer's Creative Music Notation, in which he discusses the idea that a particular musical texture (which he titles "confusions") can be notated in a musical score.

This is an exercise created by Schafer to promote musical texture in choral singing. It is found in Creative Music Education.

This an example of graphic notation created by a student.