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This is the title page from a book found in Morrisset Library written by R. Murray Schafer, ''Creative Music Education: A Handbook for the Modern Music Teacher.'' . It discusses the challenges and solutions for music education in the modern era.

Dein Angesicht is a piece by Robert Schumann. Schafer quotes this work, among many, in Adieu, Robert Schumann. This piece was written around the time when Schumann began to go crazy enhancing the themes in Schafer's piece.

In this article, W. Littler describes Schafer's reasoning for positioning the instrumentalists around the lake for their performance of Music for Wilderness Lake He then explained why the piece needed to be played on a lake at dusk and dawn. He then…

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…

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…

Article de journal publié pour Le Monde en 1975 où Jacques Lonchampt dédie une section de son texte à sa découverte du compositeur R. Murray Schafer et de certaines de ses oeuvres lors de La Semaine mondiale.

Commissioned by the CBC in 1976, Adieu, Robert Schumann is a piece for voice and orchestra. The piece uses letters by Clara Schumann to her husband Robert Schumann during his last few days.

Maureen Forrester sings Schafer's Adieu Robert Schuman at the premier at the National Arts Centre on March 14th 1978 conducted by Mario Bernardi.

Excerpt from R. Murray Schafer’s work Patria II: Requiems for the Party Girl. This excerpt demonstrates the composer’s use of graphic notation and of multiple languages within his work.

The cover is composed of details of the music score for Patria: The Prologue, The Princess of the Stars and the detail of a photograph of the Banff Festival production of the opera in 1985, showing a flipped view of the Sun Disc (not shown) flanked…