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Page 1 of R. Murray Schafer’s unpublished letter to his instrumentalists performing in “Music for Wilderness Lake.” Schafer gives the instrumentalists specific instructions of their formations for when they are performing, and a brief description of…

page 15 of " Hear Me Out " provides tempo and dynamic suggestions. Text is added to recite by the performers. Shapes and figures provide suggestion on dynamic and musical characteristic of the citation.

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 distant satellite image rendered by Google, of the Golden Triangle Area, Ottawa, Ontario.

A close satellite image rendered by Google of the Golden Triangle Area, Ottawa, Ontario.

This is the soundscape heard in Ottawa, Ontario's Golden Triangle Park in the afternoon of August 9th, 2016. This is an example of a lo-fi soundscape because the sounds of traffic and construction often overtake the sounds of nature such as birds and…

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

An ambient snippet of the backyard area soundscape at 25 Maclaren St, Ottawa from August 11, 2016. Recorded on an Android smartphone.

This an example of graphic notation created by a student.

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…