Browse Items (102 total)
Sort by:
The Listening Book (dedication page)
"Neither the book nor the reader is silent. Listen to the sounds you can make together", writes composer R. Murray Schafer. This dedication for bp and Steve is handwritten and signed by R. Murray Schafer. It is found on page 1 of the unpublished…
The Tuning of the World (diagram)
Diagrams on page 229 of R. Murray Schafer's unpublished manuscript "The Tuning of the World". The diagrams are Schafer's visual interpretations of sound duration, frequency, internal fluctuations, and dynamics. These interpretations are presented in…
Sounds Unseen: An exhibition of musical manuscripts and sound sculpture
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…
Snowforms (score)
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…
Sun: A Composition for Choir (performance notes)
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.…
Ear Cleaning: Notes for an Experimental Music Course (lecture six)
The lecture describes how to move a musical melody through changing pitch. Schafer explains that amplitude, timbre, and silence can enhance a melody by presenting three examples of graphic notation. Schafer also uses three more examples of graphic…
Music for Wilderness Lake (video still)
A video still of a performance of R. Murray Schafer's "Music for Wilderness Lake". Performance of both Dusk and Dawn at the appropriate times in the setting desired for the performance. (Youtube. "Music for Wilderness Lake" Accessed February…
Set-up of performers for Wilderness Lake (diagram)
A drawing that describes the arrangement of the instrumentalists as well as how to best capture the sound and the visual aspects of the performance of "Music for Wilderness Lake." The placement of every person participating is clearly notated on the…
Requiems for the Party Girl - Ariadne et sa bête (extrait)
Il s'agit là de la page 108 du score de Patria II. Un dessin coloré marquant le moment où Ariadne prend conscience de son ombre (shadow) d'après les principes de Jung, dans ce cas-ci la bête.
Patria II : Requiems for the Party Girl (page couverture)
Page couverture, avec dessin de R. Murray Schafer, de la partition manuscript de Requiems for the Party Girl publiée en 1972 par la maison d'édition Berandol Music Limited.