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Ear Cleaning: Notes for an Experimental Music Course (lecture six)

Title

Ear Cleaning: Notes for an Experimental Music Course (lecture six)

Creator

Schafer, R. Murray

Subject

Schafer, R. Murray; musical notation; notation musicale; graphic notation; melody; melodie; pitch; ton; lecture; leçon

Description

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 notation to display a melody falling from grace, an ascending melody, and a neutral melody. The lecture is on page 17 of Schafer's Ear Cleaning: Notes for an Experimental Music Course.

Publisher

BMI Canada

Date

1967

Format

paper, ink; text (p. 17 of 46 pages); graphic notation

Identifier

UO-RMS360-EARCLEANING-p17

Source

Schafer, R. Murray. 1967. "Lecture Six: Melody." In Ear Cleaning: Notes for an Experimental Music Course, 17. Don Mills, Ontario: BMI Canada. (Found at the University of Ottawa Library).

Item catalogued by Clara Lockhart, University of Ottawa.

Language

English

Coverage

Don Mills, Ontario, Canada

Rights

Copyright © R. Murray Schafer

Files

UO-RMS360-EARCLEANING-p17.png

Citation

Schafer, R. Murray , “Ear Cleaning: Notes for an Experimental Music Course (lecture six),” SCHAFER 360, accessed December 26, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/schafer360/items/show/33.

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