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

Links

• Murray Schafer on Wikipedia
• http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/emc/schafer-r-murray
• http://continuo.wordpress.com/category/murray-schafer/