R. Murray Schafer
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).
Awards
- 1978, the Jules Léger Prize
Books
- Ezra Pound and Music, 1961
- The Composer in the Classroom, 1965
- Ear cleaning: Notes for an experimental music course, 1967
- The Book of Noise, 1970
- When Words Sing 1970
- E.T.A. Hoffmann and Music, 1975
- The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World, 1977/1993