John M. Picker: Victorian Soundscapes (2003)
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“Far from the hushed restraint we associate with the Victorians, their world pulsated with sound. This book shows how, in more ways than one, Victorians were hearing things. The representations close listeners left of their soundscapes offered new meanings for silence, music, noise, voice, and echo that constitute an important part of the Victorian legacy to us today. In chronicling the shift from Romantic to modern configurations of sound and voice, Picker draws upon literary and scientific works to recapture the sense of aural discovery figures such as Babbage, Helmholtz, Freud, Bell, and Edison shared with the likes of Dickens, George Eliot, Tennyson, Stoker, and Conrad.”
Publisher Oxford University Press, 2003
ISBN 0195151917, 9780195151916
220 pages
PDF, PDF (updated on 2017-3-2)
Comments (4)R. Murray Schafer: The New Soundscape: A Handbook for the Modern Music Teacher (1969)
Filed under book | Tags: · acoustics, education, music, music theory, noise, schizophonia, sound
“Overheard in the lobby after the premiere of Beethoven’s Fifth: ‘Yes, but is it music?’
Overheard in the lobby after the premiere of Wagner’s Tristan: ‘Yes, but is it music?’
Overheard in the lobby after the premiere of Stravinsky’s Sacre: ‘Yes, but is it music?’
Overheard in the lobby after the premiere of Varèse’s Poème électronique: ‘Yes, but is it music?’
A jet scrapes the sky over my head and I ask: ‘Yes, but is it music? Perhaps the pilot has mistaken his profession?’ ” (Preface)
Publisher Berandol Music Limited, Scarborough, Ontario, and Associated Music Publishers, New York, 1969
67 pages
via Charles Turner
PDF (updated to OCR’d version via John Erik Kristensen on 2016-11-11, 2 MB)
Comment (0)R. Murray Schafer: Ear Cleaning: Notes for an Experimental Music Course (1967–) [EN, ES, PT]
Filed under book | Tags: · acoustics, experimental music, listening, music, noise, sound
The book includes R. Murray Schafer’s notes and exercises which formed part of an experimental music course offered to first-year students at Simon Fraser University.
With an Introduction by Keith Bissell
Publisher Clark & Cruickshank, a division of Berandol Music Limited, Toronto, Canada, 1967
46 pages
via Charles Turner
Ear Cleaning (English, no OCR)
Limpieza de oidos (Spanish, trans. Ricardo Arturo de Gainza, 1982, added on 2014-12-19)
Limpeza de ouvidos (Brazilian Portuguese, 1991, added on 2014-12-19)