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R. Murray Schafer

January 22, 2023

Raymond Murray Schafer CC FRCMT(hon) (18 July 1933 – 14 August 2021) was 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). He was the first recipient of the Jules Léger Prize in 1978.[1][2]

R. Murray Schafer
CC FRCMT(hon)
Schafer in 2007
Background information
Birth nameRaymond Murray Schafer
Born(1933-07-18)18 July 1933
Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
Died14 August 2021(2021-08-14) (aged 88)
GenresAvant-garde, classical, opera, musical theatre
Occupation(s)Composer, librettist, pedagogue, writer, educator, environmentalist
Instrument(s)Piano

Biography

 
In his memoirs, My Life on Earth and Elsewhere, Schafer described serving as a novice deckhand aboard the oil tanker Imperial Windsor in 1955.[3]

Born in Sarnia, Ontario, he studied at the Royal Schools of Music in London, the Royal Conservatory of Music (in Toronto), and the University of Toronto. At the last institution he was a pupil of Richard Johnston.

His music education theories are followed around the world. He started soundscape studies at Simon Fraser University in the 1960s.

In addition to introducing the concept of soundscape, he also coined the term schizophonia in 1969, the splitting of a sound from its source or the condition caused by this split: "We have split the sound from the maker of the sound. Sounds have been torn from their natural sockets and given an amplified and independent existence. Vocal sound, for instance, is no longer tied to a hole in the head but is free to issue from anywhere in the landscape."[4] Steven Feld, borrowing a term from Gregory Bateson, calls the recombination and recontextualization of sounds split from their sources schismogenesis.[5]

In 1987 Schafer was awarded the first Glenn Gould Prize in recognition of his contributions. He has also won two JUNO Awards for Classical Composition of the Year: in 2004 for his "String Quartet No. 8", and in 2011 for his "Duo for Violin and Piano".

In 2003 Schafer was the artistic director of Coimbra Vibra!, an event that celebrated music and the acoustic environment, gathering 1200 musicians and over 10000 spectators in the city of Coimbra (Portugal). In 2005 Schafer was keynote speaker at the 12th International Congress on Sound and Vibration. His presentation was titled "I have never seen a sound." In 2005 Schafer was awarded the Walter Carsen Prize, by the Canada Council for the Arts, one of the top honours for lifetime achievement by a Canadian artist.[6] In 2009, Schafer received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts.[7] In 2013, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada "for his contributions as an internationally renowned composer of contemporary music, and for his groundbreaking work in acoustic ecology".[8]

Schafer was a practitioner of graphic notation.[9] He died at his home near Peterborough, Ontario, of complications of Alzheimer's disease on 14 August 2021.[10]

Starting in 2010 a World Listening Day organised by the World Listening Project has taken place annually on 18 July, with the date chosen in honour of Schafer's birthday.[11][12][13]

Selected works

Compositions

  • Stage works
    • Job (Schafer et al., after the Biblical book of Job). 2011 (Kingston, Ont 2011). Chor (SATB), actors, et cetra. (Premieres 14, 15 May at 8:00 pm EST at Sydenham Street United Church, Kingston, Ontario.)
    • Jonah (Schafer et al., after the Biblical book of Jonah). 1979 (Maynooth, Ont 1979). Chor (SATB), actors, fl, clarinet, organ, percussion. Arcana 1980
    • Patria (1966—)[14]
      • Patria: The Prologue, The Princess of the Stars
      • Patria 1: Wolfman
      • Patria 2: Requiems for the Party Girl
      • Patria 3: The Greatest Show
        • Adapted into the film Carnival of Shadows
      • Patria 4: The Black Theatre of Hermes Trismegistos
      • Patria 5: The Crown of Ariadne
      • Patria 6: Ra
      • Patria 7: Asterion
      • Patria 8: The Palace of the Cinnabar Phoenix[15]
      • Patria 9: The Enchanted Forest
      • Patria 10: The Spirit Garden
      • Patria: The Epilogue: And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon
  • Orchestra
    • In Memoriam: Alberto Guerrero. 1959 (Vancouver 1962). Str orch. Arcana 1985. Centrediscs CMC-2887 (Vancouver Symphony Orchestra)
    • Partita for String Orchestra. 1961 (Hal 1963). Arcana. CBC SM-15 (CBC Vancouver Orchestra)
    • Canzoni for Prisoners. 1962 (Montreal 1963). Full orch. Ber 1977
    • Untitled Composition for Orchestra No.1. 1963 (Toronto 1966). Sm orch. Ber 1977
    • Untitled Composition for Orchestra No. 2. 1963. Full orch. Ber 1977
    • Statement in Blue. 1964 (Toronto 1965). Youth orch. BMIC 1966, UE 1971. 1970. Mel SMLP-4017 (Lawrence Park Collegiate O, J. McDougall conductor)
    • Son of Heldenleben. 1968 (Montreal 1968). Full orch, tape. UE 1976. RCI 387/Sel CC-15-101/5-ACM 3 (MSO)
    • No Longer than Ten (10) Minutes. 1970. Rev 1972 (Toronto 1971). Full orch. Ber 1977
    • East (meditations on a text from Ishna Upanishad). 1972 (Bath, England, 1973). Sm orch. UE 1977. RCI 434/5-ACM 3 (NACO)
    • North/White. 1973 (Vancouver 1973). Full orch, snowmobile. UE 1980
    • Train. 1976 (Toronto 1976). Youth orch. Ber 1977
    • Cortège. 1977(Ott 1977). Sm orch. UE 1981
    • Ko wo kiku ('Listen to the Incense'). 1985 (Kyoto 1985). Full orch. Arcana 1989
    • Dream Rainbow Dream Thunder. 1986 (Kingston 1986). Full orch. Arcana 1989. CBC SMCD-5101 (Esprit Orchestra)
    • Scorpius. 1990 (Toronto 1990). Orch. Arcana 1990
  • Soloists and/or Choir with Orchestra
    • Minnelieder (various Medieval German poets). 1956 (chamber version), 1987 (orch version) (Quebec City 1987 orch version). Mezzo, woodwind quintet or mezzo, orch. Ber 1970 (chamber version), Arcana (rental, orch version, with one additional song 'Über den Linden,' text by Walter von der Vogelweider). (chamber version) RCI 218/RCA CCS-1012/5-ACM 3
    • Protest and Incarceration (East European poets). 1960 (Toronto 1967). Mezzo, orch. Ms
    • Brébeuf, cantata (Brébeuf, transl Schafer). 1961 (Toronto 1966). Bar, orch. Arcana 1981
    • Threnody (Japanese children). 1966, rev 1967 (Vancouver 1967). Choir, orch, tape. Ber 1970. 1970. Mel SMLP-4017 (Lawrence Park Collegiate O and Choir, J. Barron conductor)
    • Lustro. 1970-2 (CBC Toronto 1973). Comprising:
    • Part 1: Divan i Shams i Tabriz (Jalal al din Rumi). 1969, rev 1970. 6 solo voices, orch, tape. UE 1977
    • Part 2: Music for the Morning of the World (various). 1970. V, 4-track tape. UE 1973. 2-Mel SMLP-4035-6 (K. Terrell)
    • Part 3: Beyond the Great Gate of Light (Tagore). 1972. 6 solo voices, orch, tape. UE 1977
    • Arcana (Schafer, transl into Middle Egyptian hieroglyphs by D.B. Redford) 12 of the 14 songs (all but no. 9 and 12) appear in Patria 4. 1972 (Montreal 1973 orch version). V, orch (voice, chamber ensemble). Ms. UE 1977 (chamber version). RCI 434/5-ACM 3 (Morrison)
    • Adieu Robert Schumann (Clara Schumann, adapt Schafer). 1976. Alto, orch. UE 1980. CBC SM-364 (Forrester)
    • Hymn to Night (Novalis) from Patria 7. 1976. Sop, small orch, tape. UE 1981. CBC SM-364 (Turofsky, CBC Vancouver Orchestra)
    • The Garden of the Heart (The Thousand and One Nights). 1980 (Ottawa 1981). Alto, full orch. Arcana 1982
    • Concerto for Flute. 1984 (Montreal 1984). Fl, full orch. Arcana 1985
    • Letters from Mignon. 1987 (Calgary 1987). Mezzo, orch. Arcana 1989
    • Concerto for Harp. 1987 (Toronto 1988). Hp, full orch, tape. Arcana 1988
    • Concerto for Guitar. 1989 (Toronto 1990). Guit, small orch. Arcana 1989
    • The Darkly Splendid Earth: The Lonely Traveller. 1991 (Toronto 1991). Vn, full orch. Arcana
    • Gitanjali (Rabindranath Tagore). 1991 (Ott 1992). Sop, small orch. Arcana 1990
    • Accordion Concerto. 1993. Accordion, orch
    • Concerto for Viola and Orchestra. 1997. Viola, orch
    • The Falcon's Trumpet (Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra), 1996. Arcana.
  • Chamber
    • Concerto for Harpsichord and Eight Wind Instruments. 1954 (Montreal 1959). Arcana 1990. RCI 193 (K. Jones harpsichord)/Centrediscs CMC-CD-3488 (Tilney harpsichord)
    • Sonatina for Flute and Harpsichord (or Piano) 1958. Ber 1976
    • Five Studies on Texts by Prudentius. 1962. Sop, 4 fl. BMIC 1965
    • 4 arias from Loving: The Geography of Eros (1963), and Air Ishtar, Modesty, Vanity (all 1965). Sop, chamber ensemble (Modesty), mezzo, chamber ensemble (Ishtar, Vanity, and Eros). Ber 1979
    • Requiems for the Party Girl (Schafer) from Patria 2. 1966. Mezzo, chamber ensemble. BMIC 1967. RCI 299/5-ACM 3 (Mailing mezzo, SMCQ)/Mel SMLP-4026 (Mailing, instr ensemble, Schafer conductor)/CRI SD-245 (Pilgrim soprano, Chicago U Contemporary Chamb Players, Shapey conductor)
    • Minimusic. 1967. Any comb of instr or voice. UE 1971, Ber 1972
    • String Quartet No. 1. 1970. UE 1973. RCI 353/Mel SMLP-4026 (Purcell String Quartet)/Concert Hall SMS-2902/Mel SMLP-4038/2-Centrediscs CMC-CD-39-4090 (Orford String Quartet)
    • Enchantress (Sappho). 1971. V, exotic fl, 8 violoncello. Ber 1978
    • String Quartet No. 2 ('Waves'). 1976. Ber 1978. Mel SMLP-4038/2-Centrediscs CMC-CD-39-4090 (Orford String Quartet)/RCI 476/5-ACM 3 (Purcell String Quartet)
    • The Crown of Ariadne, from Patria 3 and Patria 5. Ca 1979. Hp, percussion (by the harpist). Arcana 1980. Aquitaine MS-90570/Centrediscs CMC-CD-41-4292 (Loman)/Mark MC-20485 (Mario Falcao)
    • Music for Wilderness Lake. 1979. 12 trombone, small rural lake. Arcana 1981
    • Beauty and the Beast (Schafer, after de Beaumont) from Patria 3. 1979. Alto with masks, string quartet. Arcana 1983 (Eng text and French transl)
    • Wizard Oil and Indian Sagwa (Schafer) from Patria 3. 1980. Speaker, clarinet. Arcana 1982
    • String Quartet No. 3. 1981. Arcana 1983. 2-Centrediscs CMC-CD 39-4090 (Orford String Quartet)
    • Theseus. 1983. Hp, string quartet. Arcana 1988. Centrediscs CMC-CD-41-4292 (Loman)
    • Buskers (formerly Rounds), from Patria 3. 1985. Fl, violin, viola. Arcana
    • Le Cri de Merlin. 1987. Guit, tape. Arcana 1987. Chandos ABTD-1419/Chandos CHAN-8784 (CD) (Kraft)
    • String Quartet No. 4. 1989. Str quartet, soprano. Arcana 1989. 2-Centrediscs CMC-CD-39-4090 (Orford String Quartet, Wendy Humphreys)
    • String Quartet No. 5 ('Rosalind'). 1989. Arcana 1989. 2-Centrediscs CMC-CD-39-4090 (Orford String Quartet)
    • String Quartet No. 6 ('Parting Wild Horse's Mane'). 1993
    • String Quartet No. 7. Soprano and percussion. 1998
    • Four-Forty. String quartet, orch. 2000
    • String Quartet No. 8. Tape. 2001
    • String Quartet No. 9. 2005
    • String Quartet No. 10. 2005
    • String Quartet No. 11. 2006
    • Symphony No. 1 in C Minor[16]
    • String Quartet No. 12. 2012
    • String Quartet No. 13. 2015
  • Choir
    • Four Songs on Texts of Tagore. 1962. Sop, mezzo, alto, SA. Ms
    • Gita (Bhagavad Gita), from Patria 1. 1967. SATB, brass, tape. UE 1977
    • Epitaph for Moonlight (invented words by Grade 7 students), from Patria 5. 1968. SATB, bells (optional). BMIC 1969, UE 1971. CBC SM-274/5-ACM 3 (Festival Singers)/Mel SMLP-4017 (Lawrence Park Collegiate Choir, J. Barron conductor)/Grouse GR-101-C (cass) (Vancouver Chamber Choir)/P3-C (cass) (Powell River Academy Singers, Don James dir)/World WRC-257 (University of Alberta Concert Choir, Larry Cook conductor)
    • From the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thödol) from Patria 2. 1968. Sop, SATB, alto fl, clarinet, tape. UE 1973
    • Two Anthems (formerly Yeow and Pax ) (Isaiah). 1969. SATB, organ, tape. Ber 1980
    • In Search of Zoroaster (Sacred Books of the East). 1971. Male voice, SATB (at least 150 voices), percussion, organ (tape). Ber 1976
    • Miniwanka or the Moments of Water (North American Indian dialects). 1971. SA (SATB). UE 1973. RCI 434 (Vancouver Bach Choir)/Grouse GR-101-C (cass) (Vancouver Chamber Choir)/ARU 8701-CD (F.A.C.E. Senior Treble Choir, Iwan Edwards, dir)/Centrediscs CMC-2285 (Toronto Children's Chor)/Imperial unnumbered (Powell River Boys' Choir, James dir)
    • Psalm (formerly Tehillah), from Apocalypsis (Psalm 148). 1972, rev 1976. Mixed chorus, percussion. Ber 1976. RCI 434 (Vancouver Bach Choir)
    • Credo (Giordano Bruno, adpt by Schafer), from Apocalypsis. 1977. 12 choirs, tape, optional string and/or synthesizer. Arcana 1986
    • Felix's Girls (Henry Felix) from Patria 3. 1979. SATB quartet or choir. Arcana 1980. Grouse GR-101-C (cass) (Vancouver Chamber Choir)
    • Gamelan (Balinese solmization syllables), from Patria 3. 1979. Quar or choir (SATB, SASA, TBTB). Arcana 1980. Grouse GR-100/Marquis MAR-106/Grouse 101-C (cass) (Vancouver Chamber Choir)
    • Sun (words for sun in 36 languages) from Princess of the Stars (Patria prologue). 1982. SATB. Arcana 1983. 2-Centrediscs CMC-14-1584/RCI 585 (Elmer Iseler Singers)/Grouse GR-101-C (cass) (Vancouver Chamber Choir)
    • A Garden of Bells (Schafer et al.). 1983. SATB. Arcana 1984. Grouse GR-101-C (cass) (Vancouver Chamber Choir)
    • Snowforms (Inuit words for 'snow'). 1981, rev 1983. SA. Arcana 1986. Grouse GR-101-C (cass) (Vancouver Chamber Choir)
    • The Star Princess and the Waterlilies (Schafer), from And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon (Patria conclusion). 1984. Narr, children's chorus, light percussion. Arcana 1984. TCC TCC-D-004 (Toronto Children's Chor)
    • Fire (Schafer) from Patria 5. 1986. SATB, light percussion. Arcana 1986. Grouse GR-101-C (cass) (Vancouver Chamb Choir)
    • Magic Songs (Schafer). 1988. SATB (TTBB). Arcana 1988
    • The Death of the Buddha (Mahaperinibbana Sutta). 1989. Mixed chorus, gongs, bell tree. Arcana 1989
    • Vox Naturae, from De Rerum Natura. 1997
    • Apocalypsis, revised version 2015, Toronto Luminato Festival, June. Multiple choirs, dancers, actors, throat singer
  • Voice
    • Three Contemporaries (Schafer). 1956. Mezzo, piano. Ber 1974
    • Kinderlieder (traditional, Brecht). 1958. Sop, piano. Ber 1975. CBC SM-141 (Mailing mezzo)
    • La Testa d'Adriane (Schafer), from Patria 3. 1977. Sop, accordion. Arcana 1980/in R. Murray Schafer: A Collection. Mel SMLP-4034 (Morrison soprano)
    • Sun Father Sky Mother (Schafer) from And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon (Patria conclusion). 1985. Solo voice in a mountain setting, near water and forest. Musical Canada
    • Tantrika (Sanskrit words from Tantric texts), from Patria 3. 1986. Mezzo, 4 percussion. 1986
    • Gitanjali (Rabindranath Tagore). 1991. Soprano, orch
  • Other
    • Kaleidoscope. 1967. Multi-track tape
    • Okeanos (Hesiod, Homer, Melville, Pound, et al.). 1971. 4-track tape (composed with Bruce Davis, text compiled with Brian Fawcett)
    • Dream Passage (Schafer). 1969 (CBC radio 1969). Radio version of Patria 2: Requiems for the Party Girl. Mezzo, chamber ensemble, tape
    • Hear Me Out (Schafer) from Patria 3. 1979. 4 speaking voices. Arcana 1980
    • One movement for Ontario Variations. 1979. Pf, variations by Ontario composers, on a theme by Jack Behrens
    • Harbour Symphony. 1983. Fog horns. Ms. Portion of score printed in Musicworks 25, Summer 1983
    • Also a work for piano solo, Polytonality (1954,. Ber 1974), and several works in all categories, now withdrawn by the composer
    • Wolf Music (2003)[17]

Written works

  • Ezra Pound and Music (1961)
  • The Composer in the Classroom (1965)
  • Ear cleaning: Notes for an experimental music course (1967) ISBN 0-911320-90-3 – included in The Thinking Ear
  • The New Soundscape (1968)
  • The Book of Noise (1970)
  • When Words Sing (1970)
  • The Rhinoceros in the Classroom (1975)
  • E.T.A. Hoffmann and Music (1975) ISBN 0-8020-5310-6
  • Creative Music Education: A Handbook for the Modern Music Teacher (1976) ISBN 978-0-02-872330-3
  • Smoke : A Novel (1976) – reprinted as Ariadne (1985)
  • The Tuning of the World (The Soundscape) (1977) ISBN 978-0-394-40966-5, republished as The Soundscape (1994) ISBN 978-0-89281-455-8
  • Five Village Soundscapes (1977) – editor
  • Music in the Cold (1977)
  • The Chaldean Inscription (1978)
  • R. Murray Schafer: A Collection (1979)
  • The Sixteen Scribes (1981)
  • On Canadian Music (1984)
  • Dicamus et Labyrinthos: A Philologist's Notebook (1984)
  • The Thinking Ear: On Music Education (1986) OCLC 15722926
  • Patria and the Theatre of Confluence (1991) ISBN 1-895127-11-4
  • A Sound Education: 100 Exercises in Listening and Soundmaking (1992)
  • Voices of Tyranny: Temples of Silence: Studies and Reflections on the Contemporary Soundscape (1993)
  • Wolf Tracks (1997)
  • Patria: The Complete Cycle (2002)
  • Shadowgraphs and Legends (2004)
  • The Enchanted Forest (2005) book & CD
  • HearSing (2005)
  • A Little Sound Education (2009, together with Tadahiko Imada 今田匡彦, Shunjusha　春秋社，Tokyo) ISBN 978-4-393-93539-2

See also

References

  1. ^ "World Soundscape Project". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 26 February 2007.
  2. ^ Schafer, Raymond Murray (1977). The Tuning of the World. Random House Inc. ISBN 0-394-40966-3.
  3. ^ R. Murray Schafer (2012). My Life on Earth and Elsewhere. The Porcupine's Quill. pp. 30–34. ISBN 9780889843523. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  4. ^ Mathieu, W.A. (1994). The Musical Life. Shambhala. p. 223. ISBN 0-87773-670-7.
  5. ^ Feld, Steven; Keil, Charles (1994). Music Grooves: Essays and Dialogues. University of Chicago Press. pp. 265–271. ISBN 0-226-42957-1.
  6. ^ (Press release). Canada Council for the Arts. 8 November 2005. Archived from the original on 5 February 2007. Retrieved 22 February 2007.
  7. ^ "R. Murray Schafer biography". Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  8. ^ "Governor General Announces 90 New Appointments to the Order of Canada". 30 December 2013.
  9. ^ R. Murray Schafer at National Arts Centre ArtsAlive web site. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
  10. ^ Rowat, Robert (15 August 2021). "R. Murray Schafer, composer, writer and acoustic ecologist, has died at 88". CBC.ca. Retrieved 15 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ "World Listening Day". 28 January 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  12. ^ "World Listening Project". 17 July 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  13. ^ Barnatt-Smith, Rebecca (16 July 2021). "World Listening Day 2021: What is Acoustic Ecology?". I, Science. Retrieved 18 July 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ^ Brief description of the complete Patria cycle and an Overview of the Patria Cycle
  15. ^ The Palace of the Cinnabar Phoenix
  16. ^ Kaptainis, Arthur (11 March 2011). "Symphony Review: Schafer's First". National Post. Toronto.
  17. ^ R. Murray Schafer – CAML Review

Further reading

  • Eatock, Colin. "R. Murray Schafer at 75: an appreciation," in Queen's Quarterly. Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University Press, Spring 2009, pp. 98–115.
  • Steenhuisen, Paul. "Interview with R. Murray Schafer". In . Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-88864-474-9
  • Wilkins, Nigel, Musical Encounters, London, Austin Macaulay, 2018.
  • Scott, L. Brett, R. Murray Schafer: a creative life, Lanham, Maryland, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019.

External links

  • Arcana Editions bibliography
  • R. Murray Schafer at the Canadian Encyclopedia
  • R. Murray Schafer biography at the Canadian Music Center
  • R. Murray Schafer at the Living Composers Project
  • (RealMedia)
  • World Soundscape Project
  • Listen, a short film on Schafer – Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement
  • R. Murray Schafer – National Arts Center resoures
  • Leonardo Acoustic Ecology and the Soundscape Bibliography by Maksymilian Kapelański with special section on R. Murray Schafer
  • R. Murray Schafer discography at Discogs
  • R. Murray Schafer at IMDb

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Raymond Murray Schafer CC FRCMT hon 18 July 1933 14 August 2021 was 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 He was the first recipient of the Jules Leger Prize in 1978 1 2 R Murray SchaferCC FRCMT hon Schafer in 2007Background informationBirth nameRaymond Murray SchaferBorn 1933 07 18 18 July 1933Sarnia Ontario CanadaDied14 August 2021 2021 08 14 aged 88 GenresAvant garde classical opera musical theatreOccupation s Composer librettist pedagogue writer educator environmentalistInstrument s Piano Contents 1 Biography 2 Selected works 2 1 Compositions 2 2 Written works 3 See also 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External linksBiography Edit In his memoirs My Life on Earth and Elsewhere Schafer described serving as a novice deckhand aboard the oil tanker Imperial Windsor in 1955 3 Born in Sarnia Ontario he studied at the Royal Schools of Music in London the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and the University of Toronto At the last institution he was a pupil of Richard Johnston His music education theories are followed around the world He started soundscape studies at Simon Fraser University in the 1960s In addition to introducing the concept of soundscape he also coined the term schizophonia in 1969 the splitting of a sound from its source or the condition caused by this split We have split the sound from the maker of the sound Sounds have been torn from their natural sockets and given an amplified and independent existence Vocal sound for instance is no longer tied to a hole in the head but is free to issue from anywhere in the landscape 4 Steven Feld borrowing a term from Gregory Bateson calls the recombination and recontextualization of sounds split from their sources schismogenesis 5 In 1987 Schafer was awarded the first Glenn Gould Prize in recognition of his contributions He has also won two JUNO Awards for Classical Composition of the Year in 2004 for his String Quartet No 8 and in 2011 for his Duo for Violin and Piano In 2003 Schafer was the artistic director of Coimbra Vibra an event that celebrated music and the acoustic environment gathering 1200 musicians and over 10000 spectators in the city of Coimbra Portugal In 2005 Schafer was keynote speaker at the 12th International Congress on Sound and Vibration His presentation was titled I have never seen a sound In 2005 Schafer was awarded the Walter Carsen Prize by the Canada Council for the Arts one of the top honours for lifetime achievement by a Canadian artist 6 In 2009 Schafer received the Governor General s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement Canada s highest honour in the performing arts 7 In 2013 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada for his contributions as an internationally renowned composer of contemporary music and for his groundbreaking work in acoustic ecology 8 Schafer was a practitioner of graphic notation 9 He died at his home near Peterborough Ontario of complications of Alzheimer s disease on 14 August 2021 10 Starting in 2010 a World Listening Day organised by the World Listening Project has taken place annually on 18 July with the date chosen in honour of Schafer s birthday 11 12 13 Selected works EditCompositions Edit Stage works Job Schafer et al after the Biblical book of Job 2011 Kingston Ont 2011 Chor SATB actors et cetra Premieres 14 15 May at 8 00 pm EST at Sydenham Street United Church Kingston Ontario Jonah Schafer et al after the Biblical book of Jonah 1979 Maynooth Ont 1979 Chor SATB actors fl clarinet organ percussion Arcana 1980 Patria 1966 14 Patria The Prologue The Princess of the Stars Patria 1 Wolfman Patria 2 Requiems for the Party Girl Patria 3 The Greatest Show Adapted into the film Carnival of Shadows Patria 4 The Black Theatre of Hermes Trismegistos Patria 5 The Crown of Ariadne Patria 6 Ra Patria 7 Asterion Patria 8 The Palace of the Cinnabar Phoenix 15 Patria 9 The Enchanted Forest Patria 10 The Spirit Garden Patria The Epilogue And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon Orchestra In Memoriam Alberto Guerrero 1959 Vancouver 1962 Str orch Arcana 1985 Centrediscs CMC 2887 Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Partita for String Orchestra 1961 Hal 1963 Arcana CBC SM 15 CBC Vancouver Orchestra Canzoni for Prisoners 1962 Montreal 1963 Full orch Ber 1977 Untitled Composition for Orchestra No 1 1963 Toronto 1966 Sm orch Ber 1977 Untitled Composition for Orchestra No 2 1963 Full orch Ber 1977 Statement in Blue 1964 Toronto 1965 Youth orch BMIC 1966 UE 1971 1970 Mel SMLP 4017 Lawrence Park Collegiate O J McDougall conductor Son of Heldenleben 1968 Montreal 1968 Full orch tape UE 1976 RCI 387 Sel CC 15 101 5 ACM 3 MSO No Longer than Ten 10 Minutes 1970 Rev 1972 Toronto 1971 Full orch Ber 1977 East meditations on a text from Ishna Upanishad 1972 Bath England 1973 Sm orch UE 1977 RCI 434 5 ACM 3 NACO North White 1973 Vancouver 1973 Full orch snowmobile UE 1980 Train 1976 Toronto 1976 Youth orch Ber 1977 Cortege 1977 Ott 1977 Sm orch UE 1981 Ko wo kiku Listen to the Incense 1985 Kyoto 1985 Full orch Arcana 1989 Dream Rainbow Dream Thunder 1986 Kingston 1986 Full orch Arcana 1989 CBC SMCD 5101 Esprit Orchestra Scorpius 1990 Toronto 1990 Orch Arcana 1990 Soloists and or Choir with Orchestra Minnelieder various Medieval German poets 1956 chamber version 1987 orch version Quebec City 1987 orch version Mezzo woodwind quintet or mezzo orch Ber 1970 chamber version Arcana rental orch version with one additional song Uber den Linden text by Walter von der Vogelweider chamber version RCI 218 RCA CCS 1012 5 ACM 3 Protest and Incarceration East European poets 1960 Toronto 1967 Mezzo orch Ms Brebeuf cantata Brebeuf transl Schafer 1961 Toronto 1966 Bar orch Arcana 1981 Threnody Japanese children 1966 rev 1967 Vancouver 1967 Choir orch tape Ber 1970 1970 Mel SMLP 4017 Lawrence Park Collegiate O and Choir J Barron conductor Lustro 1970 2 CBC Toronto 1973 Comprising Part 1 Divan i Shams i Tabriz Jalal al din Rumi 1969 rev 1970 6 solo voices orch tape UE 1977 Part 2 Music for the Morning of the World various 1970 V 4 track tape UE 1973 2 Mel SMLP 4035 6 K Terrell Part 3 Beyond the Great Gate of Light Tagore 1972 6 solo voices orch tape UE 1977 Arcana Schafer transl into Middle Egyptian hieroglyphs by D B Redford 12 of the 14 songs all but no 9 and 12 appear in Patria 4 1972 Montreal 1973 orch version V orch voice chamber ensemble Ms UE 1977 chamber version RCI 434 5 ACM 3 Morrison Adieu Robert Schumann Clara Schumann adapt Schafer 1976 Alto orch UE 1980 CBC SM 364 Forrester Hymn to Night Novalis from Patria 7 1976 Sop small orch tape UE 1981 CBC SM 364 Turofsky CBC Vancouver Orchestra The Garden of the Heart The Thousand and One Nights 1980 Ottawa 1981 Alto full orch Arcana 1982 Concerto for Flute 1984 Montreal 1984 Fl full orch Arcana 1985 Letters from Mignon 1987 Calgary 1987 Mezzo orch Arcana 1989 Concerto for Harp 1987 Toronto 1988 Hp full orch tape Arcana 1988 Concerto for Guitar 1989 Toronto 1990 Guit small orch Arcana 1989 The Darkly Splendid Earth The Lonely Traveller 1991 Toronto 1991 Vn full orch Arcana Gitanjali Rabindranath Tagore 1991 Ott 1992 Sop small orch Arcana 1990 Accordion Concerto 1993 Accordion orch Concerto for Viola and Orchestra 1997 Viola orch The Falcon s Trumpet Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra 1996 Arcana Chamber Concerto for Harpsichord and Eight Wind Instruments 1954 Montreal 1959 Arcana 1990 RCI 193 K Jones harpsichord Centrediscs CMC CD 3488 Tilney harpsichord Sonatina for Flute and Harpsichord or Piano 1958 Ber 1976 Five Studies on Texts by Prudentius 1962 Sop 4 fl BMIC 1965 4 arias from Loving The Geography of Eros 1963 and Air Ishtar Modesty Vanity all 1965 Sop chamber ensemble Modesty mezzo chamber ensemble Ishtar Vanity and Eros Ber 1979 Requiems for the Party Girl Schafer from Patria 2 1966 Mezzo chamber ensemble BMIC 1967 RCI 299 5 ACM 3 Mailing mezzo SMCQ Mel SMLP 4026 Mailing instr ensemble Schafer conductor CRI SD 245 Pilgrim soprano Chicago U Contemporary Chamb Players Shapey conductor Minimusic 1967 Any comb of instr or voice UE 1971 Ber 1972 String Quartet No 1 1970 UE 1973 RCI 353 Mel SMLP 4026 Purcell String Quartet Concert Hall SMS 2902 Mel SMLP 4038 2 Centrediscs CMC CD 39 4090 Orford String Quartet Enchantress Sappho 1971 V exotic fl 8 violoncello Ber 1978 String Quartet No 2 Waves 1976 Ber 1978 Mel SMLP 4038 2 Centrediscs CMC CD 39 4090 Orford String Quartet RCI 476 5 ACM 3 Purcell String Quartet The Crown of Ariadne from Patria 3 and Patria 5 Ca 1979 Hp percussion by the harpist Arcana 1980 Aquitaine MS 90570 Centrediscs CMC CD 41 4292 Loman Mark MC 20485 Mario Falcao Music for Wilderness Lake 1979 12 trombone small rural lake Arcana 1981 Beauty and the Beast Schafer after de Beaumont from Patria 3 1979 Alto with masks string quartet Arcana 1983 Eng text and French transl Wizard Oil and Indian Sagwa Schafer from Patria 3 1980 Speaker clarinet Arcana 1982 String Quartet No 3 1981 Arcana 1983 2 Centrediscs CMC CD 39 4090 Orford String Quartet Theseus 1983 Hp string quartet Arcana 1988 Centrediscs CMC CD 41 4292 Loman Buskers formerly Rounds from Patria 3 1985 Fl violin viola Arcana Le Cri de Merlin 1987 Guit tape Arcana 1987 Chandos ABTD 1419 Chandos CHAN 8784 CD Kraft String Quartet No 4 1989 Str quartet soprano Arcana 1989 2 Centrediscs CMC CD 39 4090 Orford String Quartet Wendy Humphreys String Quartet No 5 Rosalind 1989 Arcana 1989 2 Centrediscs CMC CD 39 4090 Orford String Quartet String Quartet No 6 Parting Wild Horse s Mane 1993 String Quartet No 7 Soprano and percussion 1998 Four Forty String quartet orch 2000 String Quartet No 8 Tape 2001 String Quartet No 9 2005 String Quartet No 10 2005 String Quartet No 11 2006 Symphony No 1 in C Minor 16 String Quartet No 12 2012 String Quartet No 13 2015 Choir Four Songs on Texts of Tagore 1962 Sop mezzo alto SA Ms Gita Bhagavad Gita from Patria 1 1967 SATB brass tape UE 1977 Epitaph for Moonlight invented words by Grade 7 students from Patria 5 1968 SATB bells optional BMIC 1969 UE 1971 CBC SM 274 5 ACM 3 Festival Singers Mel SMLP 4017 Lawrence Park Collegiate Choir J Barron conductor Grouse GR 101 C cass Vancouver Chamber Choir P3 C cass Powell River Academy Singers Don James dir World WRC 257 University of Alberta Concert Choir Larry Cook conductor From the Tibetan Book of the Dead Bardo Thodol from Patria 2 1968 Sop SATB alto fl clarinet tape UE 1973 Two Anthems formerly Yeow and Pax Isaiah 1969 SATB organ tape Ber 1980 In Search of Zoroaster Sacred Books of the East 1971 Male voice SATB at least 150 voices percussion organ tape Ber 1976 Miniwanka or the Moments of Water North American Indian dialects 1971 SA SATB UE 1973 RCI 434 Vancouver Bach Choir Grouse GR 101 C cass Vancouver Chamber Choir ARU 8701 CD F A C E Senior Treble Choir Iwan Edwards dir Centrediscs CMC 2285 Toronto Children s Chor Imperial unnumbered Powell River Boys Choir James dir Psalm formerly Tehillah from Apocalypsis Psalm 148 1972 rev 1976 Mixed chorus percussion Ber 1976 RCI 434 Vancouver Bach Choir Credo Giordano Bruno adpt by Schafer from Apocalypsis 1977 12 choirs tape optional string and or synthesizer Arcana 1986 Felix s Girls Henry Felix from Patria 3 1979 SATB quartet or choir Arcana 1980 Grouse GR 101 C cass Vancouver Chamber Choir Gamelan Balinese solmization syllables from Patria 3 1979 Quar or choir SATB SASA TBTB Arcana 1980 Grouse GR 100 Marquis MAR 106 Grouse 101 C cass Vancouver Chamber Choir Sun words for sun in 36 languages from Princess of the Stars Patria prologue 1982 SATB Arcana 1983 2 Centrediscs CMC 14 1584 RCI 585 Elmer Iseler Singers Grouse GR 101 C cass Vancouver Chamber Choir A Garden of Bells Schafer et al 1983 SATB Arcana 1984 Grouse GR 101 C cass Vancouver Chamber Choir Snowforms Inuit words for snow 1981 rev 1983 SA Arcana 1986 Grouse GR 101 C cass Vancouver Chamber Choir The Star Princess and the Waterlilies Schafer from And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon Patria conclusion 1984 Narr children s chorus light percussion Arcana 1984 TCC TCC D 004 Toronto Children s Chor Fire Schafer from Patria 5 1986 SATB light percussion Arcana 1986 Grouse GR 101 C cass Vancouver Chamb Choir Magic Songs Schafer 1988 SATB TTBB Arcana 1988 The Death of the Buddha Mahaperinibbana Sutta 1989 Mixed chorus gongs bell tree Arcana 1989 Vox Naturae from De Rerum Natura 1997 Apocalypsis revised version 2015 Toronto Luminato Festival June Multiple choirs dancers actors throat singer Voice Three Contemporaries Schafer 1956 Mezzo piano Ber 1974 Kinderlieder traditional Brecht 1958 Sop piano Ber 1975 CBC SM 141 Mailing mezzo La Testa d Adriane Schafer from Patria 3 1977 Sop accordion Arcana 1980 in R Murray Schafer A Collection Mel SMLP 4034 Morrison soprano Sun Father Sky Mother Schafer from And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon Patria conclusion 1985 Solo voice in a mountain setting near water and forest Musical Canada Tantrika Sanskrit words from Tantric texts from Patria 3 1986 Mezzo 4 percussion 1986 Gitanjali Rabindranath Tagore 1991 Soprano orch Other Kaleidoscope 1967 Multi track tape Okeanos Hesiod Homer Melville Pound et al 1971 4 track tape composed with Bruce Davis text compiled with Brian Fawcett Dream Passage Schafer 1969 CBC radio 1969 Radio version of Patria 2 Requiems for the Party Girl Mezzo chamber ensemble tape Hear Me Out Schafer from Patria 3 1979 4 speaking voices Arcana 1980 One movement for Ontario Variations 1979 Pf variations by Ontario composers on a theme by Jack Behrens Harbour Symphony 1983 Fog horns Ms Portion of score printed in Musicworks 25 Summer 1983 Also a work for piano solo Polytonality 1954 Ber 1974 and several works in all categories now withdrawn by the composer Wolf Music 2003 17 Written works Edit Ezra Pound and Music 1961 The Composer in the Classroom 1965 Ear cleaning Notes for an experimental music course 1967 ISBN 0 911320 90 3 included in The Thinking Ear The New Soundscape 1968 The Book of Noise 1970 When Words Sing 1970 The Rhinoceros in the Classroom 1975 E T A Hoffmann and Music 1975 ISBN 0 8020 5310 6 Creative Music Education A Handbook for the Modern Music Teacher 1976 ISBN 978 0 02 872330 3 Smoke A Novel 1976 reprinted as Ariadne 1985 The Tuning of the World The Soundscape 1977 ISBN 978 0 394 40966 5 republished as The Soundscape 1994 ISBN 978 0 89281 455 8 Five Village Soundscapes 1977 editor Music in the Cold 1977 The Chaldean Inscription 1978 R Murray Schafer A Collection 1979 The Sixteen Scribes 1981 On Canadian Music 1984 Dicamus et Labyrinthos A Philologist s Notebook 1984 The Thinking Ear On Music Education 1986 OCLC 15722926 Patria and the Theatre of Confluence 1991 ISBN 1 895127 11 4 A Sound Education 100 Exercises in Listening and Soundmaking 1992 Voices of Tyranny Temples of Silence Studies and Reflections on the Contemporary Soundscape 1993 Wolf Tracks 1997 Patria The Complete Cycle 2002 Shadowgraphs and Legends 2004 The Enchanted Forest 2005 book amp CD HearSing 2005 A Little Sound Education 2009 together with Tadahiko Imada 今田匡彦 Shunjusha 春秋社 Tokyo ISBN 978 4 393 93539 2See also EditSound culture Sound mapReferences Edit World Soundscape Project The Canadian Encyclopedia Retrieved 26 February 2007 Schafer Raymond Murray 1977 The Tuning of the World Random House Inc ISBN 0 394 40966 3 R Murray Schafer 2012 My Life on Earth and Elsewhere The Porcupine s Quill pp 30 34 ISBN 9780889843523 Retrieved 6 September 2013 Mathieu W A 1994 The Musical Life Shambhala p 223 ISBN 0 87773 670 7 Feld Steven Keil Charles 1994 Music Grooves Essays and Dialogues University of Chicago Press pp 265 271 ISBN 0 226 42957 1 Composer R Murray Schafer wins Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts Press release Canada Council for the Arts 8 November 2005 Archived from the original on 5 February 2007 Retrieved 22 February 2007 R Murray Schafer biography Governor General s Performing Arts Awards Foundation Retrieved 11 February 2015 Governor General Announces 90 New Appointments to the Order of Canada 30 December 2013 R Murray Schafer at National Arts Centre ArtsAlive web site Retrieved 17 November 2011 Rowat Robert 15 August 2021 R Murray Schafer composer writer and acoustic ecologist has died at 88 CBC ca Retrieved 15 August 2021 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link World Listening Day 28 January 2021 Retrieved 18 July 2021 World Listening Project 17 July 2021 Retrieved 18 July 2021 Barnatt Smith Rebecca 16 July 2021 World Listening Day 2021 What is Acoustic Ecology I Science Retrieved 18 July 2021 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Brief description of the complete Patria cycle and an Overview of the Patria Cycle The Palace of the Cinnabar Phoenix Kaptainis Arthur 11 March 2011 Symphony Review Schafer s First National Post Toronto R Murray Schafer CAML ReviewFurther reading EditEatock Colin R Murray Schafer at 75 an appreciation in Queen s Quarterly Kingston Ontario Queen s University Press Spring 2009 pp 98 115 Steenhuisen Paul Interview with R Murray Schafer In Sonic Mosaics Conversations with Composers Edmonton University of Alberta Press 2009 ISBN 978 0 88864 474 9 Wilkins Nigel Musical Encounters London Austin Macaulay 2018 Scott L Brett R Murray Schafer a creative life Lanham Maryland Rowman amp Littlefield Publishers 2019 External links EditArcana Editions bibliography R Murray Schafer at the Canadian Encyclopedia R Murray Schafer biography at the Canadian Music Center R Murray Schafer at the Living Composers Project Music Behind Walls 3 24 min R Murray Schafer RealMedia World Soundscape Project Listen a short film on Schafer Governor General s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement R Murray Schafer National Arts Center resoures Leonardo Acoustic Ecology and the Soundscape Bibliography by Maksymilian Kapelanski with special section on R Murray Schafer R Murray Schafer discography at Discogs R Murray Schafer at IMDb Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title R Murray Schafer amp oldid 1129245690, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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