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'''Raymond Murray Schafer''' (born 18 July 1933) is a Canadian composer, writer, music educator and environmentalist perhaps best known for his ''World Soundscape Project'', concern for acoustic ecology, and his book ''The Tuning of the World'' (1977).
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'''Raymond Murray Schafer''' (born 1933) is a Canadian composer, writer, music educator and environmentalist perhaps best known for his ''World Soundscape Project'', concern for acoustic ecology, and his book ''The Tuning of the World'' (1977).
  
==Awards==
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==Literature==
* 1978, the ''Jules Léger'' Prize
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; Books by Schafer
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* ''Ezra Pound and Music'', 1961.
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* ''The Composer in the Classroom'', 1965.
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* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=7903 ''Ear Cleaning: Notes for an Experimental Music Course''] , Clark & Cruickshank, 1967, 46 pp.
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* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=7905 ''The New Soundscape: A Handbook for the Modern Music Teacher''], Scarborough/Ontario: Berandol Music, and New York: Associated Music Publishers, 1969, 67 pp.
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* ''The Book of Noise'', 1970.
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* ''When Words Sing'' 1970.
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* ''E.T.A. Hoffmann and Music'', 1975.
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* ''The Tuning of the World'', New York: Knopf, 1977.
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** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9970 ''The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World''], Rochester/Vermont: Destiny Books, 1993, 320 pp.
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* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=3140 ''A Sound Education: 100 Exercises in Listening and Soundmaking''], Arcana, 1992, 144 pp.
  
==Books==
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; Articles by Schafer
* ''Ezra Pound and Music'', 1961
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* "The Graphics of Musical Thought", ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5681 Sound Sculpture: A Collection of Essays by Artists Surveying the Techniques, Applications, and Future Directions of Sound Sculpture]'', ed. John Grayson, Vancouver: Aesthetic Research Centre of Canada, 1975, pp 99-125.
* ''The Composer in the Classroom'', 1965
 
* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=7903 ''Ear cleaning: Notes for an experimental music course''] , 1967
 
* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=7905 ''The New Soundscape: A Handbook for the Modern Music Teacher''], 1969
 
* ''The Book of Noise'', 1970
 
* ''When Words Sing'' 1970
 
* ''E.T.A. Hoffmann and Music'', 1975
 
* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9970 ''The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World''], 1977/1993
 
* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=3140 ''A Sound Education: 100 Exercises in Listening and Soundmaking''], 1992
 
  
==Links==
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==External links==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Murray_Schafer Murray Schafer on Wikipedia]
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* http://continuo.wordpress.com/category/murray-schafer/
 
* http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/emc/schafer-r-murray
 
* http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/emc/schafer-r-murray
* http://continuo.wordpress.com/category/murray-schafer/
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Murray_Schafer Schafer at Wikipedia]
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[[Category:Sound art|Schafer, R. Murray]]

Revision as of 01:00, 20 February 2014

Raymond Murray Schafer (born 1933) is a Canadian composer, writer, music educator and environmentalist perhaps best known for his World Soundscape Project, concern for acoustic ecology, and his book The Tuning of the World (1977).

Literature

Books by Schafer
Articles by Schafer

External links