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A drawing from "Smoke: A Novel"
The music shown is from Hymn to Night. Inscription: SOMETIMES WE SPENT WHOLE DAYS... | ...LISTENING... | ...TO SINGLE SOUNDS... The drawing is on page 44 of Schafer's "Smoke: A Novel".
Seventeen Haiku (excerpt)
This is the second song from page 3 of R. Murray Schafer's Seventeen Haiku. It includes the original Japanese text for the haiku by Issa Kobayashi, followed by a phonetic transcription, and an English translation. It also features the meaning of the…
Patria: The Complete Cycle by R. Murray Schafer (book cover design)
The cover is composed of details of the music score for Patria: The Prologue, The Princess of the Stars and the detail of a photograph of the Banff Festival production of the opera in 1985, showing a flipped view of the Sun Disc (not shown) flanked…
Patria II: Requiems for a Party Girl (excerpt)
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.
Adieu, Robert Schumann (video still)
Maureen Forrester sings Schafer's Adieu Robert Schuman at the premier at the National Arts Centre on March 14th 1978 conducted by Mario Bernardi.
Adieu, Robert Schumann
Commissioned by the CBC in 1976, Adieu, Robert Schumann is a piece for voice and orchestra. The piece uses letters by Clara Schumann to her husband Robert Schumann during his last few days.
« Un dynamisme sans complexe » tiré du journal français Le Monde (article journalistique)
Article de journal publié pour Le Monde en 1975 où Jacques Lonchampt dédie une section de son texte à sa découverte du compositeur R. Murray Schafer et de certaines de ses oeuvres lors de La Semaine mondiale.
“Capturing Wilderness Lake” (article)
This article provides a live account of R. Murray Schafer’s performance of Music for Wilderness, which took place in Bancroft Ontario. This article analyzes how performing this piece in the natural wilderness is essential for the audience to fully…
"Murray Schafer" (article)
In this article about Schafer's Music for Wilderness Lake, Colgrass provides a review of its performance on O'Grady Lake. With reference to Schafer's quotations on the piece, the author discusses the composer's intentions and how well they were…
"Looney Tunes on a Lovely Lake" (article)
In this article, W. Littler describes Schafer's reasoning for positioning the instrumentalists around the lake for their performance of Music for Wilderness Lake He then explained why the piece needed to be played on a lake at dusk and dawn. He then…