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A diagram comparing and visualizing the tone of a bell versus a horn, found on page 260 of The Tuning of the World. The illustration represents a visualized cross section of the resulting sounds, which provides context illuminating Schafer's approach…

Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer conducts a masterclass in Mairiporã, Brazil exploring natural soundscapes mixed with instrumentation and the effects of noise on our psyche. R. Murray Schafer leads a group of musicians and educators through his…

In 2015, the Victoria Junior College Choir performed R. Murray Schafer's Snowforms at their annual concert Symphony of Voices at the Esplanade concert hall in Signapore.

Score for Snowforms, an 8-minute chorale work for children's voices in Inuit chant in which "the choristers are required to sing drawings in the composer's graphic notation". (University of Ottawa Library. "A Different Kind of 'Rock' from Youthful…

To preface his score to Snowforms, R. Murray Schafer briefly describes his inspiration for the piece. He goes on to explain how his graphic notation, design for children, is meant to be conducted and interpreted.

Il s'agit de la page couverture du manuscrit Smoke A Novel de R. Murray Schafer. Cette source contient des images et des indices textuelles décrivant l'histoire d'Ariadne imaginée par R. Murray Schafer pour les pièces Patria I et V.

Page 2 of "Situation Music", composition for brass quintet, provides information to performers on how to stage the performance. Examples of shapes and figures that are noted in the score are provided with a brief explanation.

Children making a ''paper symphony'', from a school experimenting with the concept of music soundscape inspired by Schafer.

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.

An excerpt from page 229 of My Life on Earth and Elsewhere where Schafer discusses the performance of Seventeen Haiku and speaks about his friend and fellow composer Komei Harasawa, the Utaoni Choir, and his experiences in Japan.