Browse Items (102 total)

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.

A table of aesthetic preferences for different sounds across various locations found in the appendix of R. Murray Schafer's book Tuning of the World

This chart from the Tuning of the World manuscript shows the most common types of noise complaints received by municipal offices around the world, as well as how many times they were mentioned in each category. This table is an expanded version of…

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

The back of page 6 of " Sun: A Composition for Choir" provides insight into how R. Murray Schafer was thinking about and creating graphic notation. There are notes that are meant to help the performer interpret the graphic notation used in the score.…

Duration of crest to crest is notated within the score. R. Murray Schafer writes "speed up," and "gradually getting slower" in order to imitate the sound of waves.

The duration of waves, and wave motion gives the string quartet it's rhythm and structure. R. Murray Schafer indicates this within the program.

An enlarged page from R. Murray Schafer's score Divan i Shams i Tabriz. This piece for voice, tape and ensemble was composed in 1969 and was commissioned by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Society. The title of the related news article by John…

Exhibition of musical manuscripts and sound sculpture.