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This excerpt of "Dusk" from Music for Wilderness Lake includes graphic notation and written text to demonstrate natures sounds the performers make and to give the performers an idea of how the music is to be played. The directions include the use of…

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…

The list of signs employed provides a legend of performance instructions for this movement in Wilderness Lake. The signs employed include the performer turning in a circle (to project sound in different corners), creating a wolf howl, playing the…

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

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.

A field recording of Light Rail construction from a residential backyard in the Golden Triangle neighbourhood of Ottawa.

Page 2 of 'Hear Me Out' for 4 voices. As explained by R. Murray Schafer "aural figures of speech" are noted to be performed somewhere between recitation and song. Includes performance suggestions on tempo, dynamic and body movements.

A map of decibel measurements across similar conditions in Stanley Park, in downtown Vancouver. Featured on page 264 of the appendix of R. Murray Schafer's Tuning of the World.

A table created by R. Murray Schafer in the manuscript of his book Tuning of the World. It outlines the various types of noise by-laws found around the world in urban centers.

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…