The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment And The Tuning Of The World (52 page)

p. 11

rural Africans
J. C. Carothers, “Culture, Psychiatry and the Written Word,”
Psychiatry
, November, 1959, pp. 308–310.

Terror
Marshall McLuhan,
The Gutenberg Galaxy
, Toronto, 1962, p. 32.

CHAPTER ONE
:
The Natural Soundscape

p. 15

Some say that
Robert Graves,
The Greek Myths
(according to Hera’s statement in the
Iliad
, XIV), New York, 1955, p. 30.

the waters little The Questions of King Milinda
, trans. T. W. Rhys Davids, Vol. XXXV of
The Sacred Books of the East
, Oxford, 1890, p. 175.

p. 16

And poor old Homer The Cantos of Ezra Pound
, London, 1954, p. 10.

For fifty days
Hesiod,
Works and Days
, lines 663–665, trans. R. Lattimore, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1968.

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waves roared The Saga of the Volsungs
, ed. R. G. Finch, London, 1965, p. 15.

Splashing oars First Lay of Helgi
, lines 104–110, trans, by the author.

Waves coming
Laragia tribe, Australia,
Technicians of the Sacred
, ed. J. Rothenberg, New York, 1969, p. 314.

Lithe turning The Cantos of Ezra Pound, op. cit
., pp. 13–14

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The wanderer
Thomas Hardy,
The Mayor of Casterbridge
, London, 1920, p. 341.

whirling and sucking
Henry David Thoreau,
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
, in
Walden and Other Writings
, New York, 1937, p. 413.

producing a hollow
J. Fenimore Cooper,
The Pathfinder
, New York, 1863, p. 115.

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For the noise
Emil Ludwig,
The Nile
, trans. M. H. Lindsay, New York, 1937, pp. 250–251.

the soft splash
Somerset Maugham,
The Gentleman in the Parlour
, London, 1940, p. 159.

Water slapped
Thomas Mann, “Death in Venice,”
Stories of Three Decades
, New York, 1936, p. 421.

The rain drops
Emily Carr,
Hundreds and Thousands
, Toronto/Vancouver, 1966, p. 305.

the thunder boomed
Alan Paton,
Cry, the Beloved Country
, New York, 1950, p. 244.

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The Illustrated Glossary
T. Armstrong, B. Roberts and C. Swithinbank,
The Illustrated Glossary of Snow and Ice
, Cambridge, 1966.

In wintertime
George Green,
History of Burnaby and Vicinity
, Vancouver, 1947, p. 3.

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we glided along
F. Philip Grove,
Over Prairie Trails
, Toronto, 1922, p. 91.

Nor is anything
Hugh MacLennan,
The Watch That Ends the Night
, Toronto, 1961, p. 5.

The violent Russian
Igor Stravinsky,
Memories and Commentaries
, London, 1960, p. 30.

and inside each
Hesiod,
Theogony
, lines 829–835, trans. R. Lattimore, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1968.

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Le vaste trouble
Victor Hugo,
Les Travailleurs de la Mer
, Paris, 1869, pp. 191–192.

The wind could
W. O. Mitchell,
Who Has Seen the Wind?
, Toronto, 1947, pp. 191 and 235.

To dwellers
Thomas Hardy,
Under the Greenwood Tree
, London, 1903, p. 3.

p. 23

The silence
Emily Carr,
The Book of Small
, Toronto, 1942, p. 119.

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for, though the quiet
J. Fenimore Cooper,
op. cit
., pp. 104–105.

It is rather difficult
Pseudo-Plutarch,
Treatise on Rivers and Mountains
. Quoted from F. D. Adams,
The Birth and Development of the Geological Sciences
, New York, 1954, p. 31.

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the earth tremors The Saga of the Volsungs, op. cit
., pp. 30–31.

his hair stood The Lay of Thrym
, from
The Elder Edda
, trans. Patricia Terry, New York, 1969, p. 88.

the infinite great
Hesiod,
Theogony, op. cit
., lines 678–694.

Then the Earth
Dion Cassius, quoted from Thomas Burnet,
The Sacred Theory of the Earth
, Book III, Chapter VII (1691), Carbondale, Illinois, 1965, p. 275.

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At the crater
Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson, personal communication.

Within three or four
David Simmons, personal communication.

I did not reach
Heinrich Heine, “Die Harzreise,”
Sämtliche Werke
, Vol. 2, Munich, 1969, pp. 19–20.

p. 27

Howl ye
Isaiah 13:6 and 13.

p. 28

By the din
Jalal-ud-din Rumi,
Divan i Shams i Tabriz
.

They put their fingers
Qur’an, 2:19.

Several times The Eruption of Krakatoa
, Report of the Krakatoa Committee of the Royal Society, London, 1888, pp. 79–80.

CHAPTER TWO
:
The Sounds of Life

p. 29

is so intense
A. J. Marshall, “The Function of Vocal Mimicry in Birds,”
Emu
, Melbourne, Vol. 50, 1950, p. 9.

p. 30

Hawfinch
From E. M. Nicholson and Ludwig Koch,
Songs of Wild Birds
, London, 1946.

p. 31

The quincunxes
Victor Hugo,
Les Misérables
, 1862. Quoted from
Landscape Painting of the Nineteenth Century
, Marco Valsecchi, New York, 1971, p. 106.

p. 32

absolutely nothing
Ferdinand Kümberger,
Der Amerika-müde
, 1855. Quoted from David Lowenthal, “The American Scene,”
The Geographical Review
, Vol. LVIII, No. 1, 1968, p. 71.

Everything
Nicolai Gogol,
Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka
, 1831–32. Quoted from Marco Valsecchi,
op. cit
., p. 279.

How enchanting
Boris Pasternak,
Doctor Zhivago
, New York, 1958, p. 11.

What could be
Maxim Gorky,
Childhood
. Quoted from Marco Valsecchi,
op. cit
., p. 279.

p. 33

The noise
Somerset Maugham,
The Gentleman in the Parlour
, London, 1940, p. 138.

The owl’s
F. Philip Grove,
Over Prairie Trails
, Toronto, 1922, p. 35.

p. 34

His ears
Leo Tolstoy,
Anna Karenina
, trans. C. Garnett, New York, 1965, p. 837.

The flight
Leo Tolstoy,
War and Peace
, trans. C. Garnett, London, 1971, p. 944.

a cry
Virgil,
Georgics
, Book IV, lines 62–64 and 70–72, trans. C. Day Lewis, New York, 1964.

p. 35

It remember
Julian Huxley and Ludwig Koch,
Animal Language
, New York, 1964, p. 24.

The bleating
Compare Virgil’s
Eclogue II
with Pope’s paraphrase,
The Second Pastoral
.

p. 36

May the fallows
Theocritus,
Idyll XVI
, edited and translated by A. S. F. Gow, Vol. 1, Cambridge, 1950, p. 129.

It is not our purpose
A good general survey of this subject, and a book from which we have drawn numerous facts, is
Animal Language
by Julian Huxley and Ludwig Koch, New York, 1964.

p. 37

refused to believe
Julian Huxley and Ludwig Koch,
op. cit
., p. 41.

p. 40

One must have heard
Marius Schneider, “Primitive Music,”
The New Oxford History of Music
, Vol. 1, London, 1957, p. 9.

Now, it is
Otto Jespersen,
Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin
, London, 1964, pp. 420 and 437.

CHAPTER THREE
:
The Rural Soundscape

p. 43

He was disturbed
Thomas Hardy,
Far from the Madding Crowd
, London, 1920, p. 291.

p. 44

When I hear
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers
(
The Sorrows of Young Werther)
, in
Werke
, Vol. 19, Weimar, 1899, p. 8.

Hyblaean bees
Virgil,
The Pastoral Poems, Eclogue I
, trans. E. V. Rieu, Harmonds-worth, Middlesex, 1949.

Sweet Theocritus
, edited and translated by A. S. F. Gow, Vol. I,
Idyll I
, Cambridge, 1950.