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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…
Seventeen Haiku (video still)
Recording of R. Murray Schafer's Seventeen Haiku recorded by the Vancouver Chamber Choir in 2000. The video includes the musical score along with the original Japanese text, their phonetic transcriptions, and their translations.
Seventeen Haiku excerpt from My Life on Earth and Elsewhere
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.
Sight-singing exercise from Creative Music Education
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.
Sinfonia de Papel -7A (Video still)
Children making a ''paper symphony'', from a school experimenting with the concept of music soundscape inspired by Schafer.
Situation Music: A Composition for Brass Quintet (performance notes)
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.
Smoke, A Novel de R. Murray Schafer (page couverture)
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.
Snowforms (composer's note)
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.
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…
Snowforms Performance (video still)
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.