The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment And The Tuning Of The World (56 page)

p. 232

It is difficult Five Village Soundscapes
, Vancouver, 1976.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
:
The Acoustic Designer

p. 238

Gravity
Lao-tzu,
Tdo Teh King, The Texts of Taoism
, trans. James Legge, New York, 1962, p. 69.

Where things grow
Shen Tsung-ch’ien. Quoted from Jacques Maritain,
Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry
, Washington, 1953, p. 396.

p’ing and tse
See John Hazedel Levis,
Foundations of Chinese Musical Art
, New York, 1964.

p. 239

Ballaarat, Australia
F. J. Rogers, Town Clerk, Ballaarat; personal communication.

p. 240

ice-making
Damascus, By-law No. 401, Sect. 3, para. 7 (1950).

p. 242

This simplification
P. Fortin, Ministere des Postes et Telecommunications, France; personal communication.

p. 244

We have also
Francis Bacon,
The New Atlantis
, London, 1906, pp. 294–295.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
:
The Soniferous Garden

p. 246

The gate
From “The Story of Nur-ed Din and Enis-El-Jelis,”
The Thousand and One Nights
, New York, 1909, p. 222.

p. 247

From the Anio
Edith Wharton,
Italian Villas and Their Gardens
, New York, 1904, p. 144.

p. 248

In another garden The Diary of John Evelyn
, Vol. 1, ed. William Bray, London, 1901, p. 179.

Pneumatics The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria
, ed. Marie Boas Hall, London, 1971, pp. 31–32.

Vitruvius
Vitruvius,
De Architectura
, trans. F. Granger, London, 1970, Book X, p. 313.

hydraulic organs The Diary of John Evelyn, op. cit
., p. 177.

p. 249

At the further Ibid
., p. 52.

p. 250

I had had the weather
E. T. A. Hoffmann,
The Life and Opinions of Kater Murr
, trans. L. J. Kent and E. C. Knight, Chicago, 1969, p. 25.

This is a bow
A. C. Moule, “Musical and Other Sound-Producing Instruments of the Chinese,”
Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
, Vol. XXXIX, 1908, pp. 105–106.

p. 251

We heard
J. S. Brandtsbuys, “Music Among the Madurees,”
Djava
, Vol. 8, 1928, p. 69.

CHAPTER NINETEEN:
Silence

p. 253

Leaning on our
Nikos Kazantzakis,
Report to Greco
, New York, 1965, pp. 198–199.

p. 254

War Remembrance
Trans. Barry Truax,
Utrechts Stadsbad
, May 2, 1973, p. 3.

p. 256

Le silence
Blaise Pascal,
Pensees
, ed. Ch. M. des Granges, Paris, 1964, p. 131.

When I described
John Cage,
Silence
, Middletown, Connecticut, 1961, p. 8.

There is no such Ibid
., p. 191.

p. 257

The analyst
Theodor Reik,
Listening with the Third Ear
, New York, 1948, pp. 122–123.

Whereof one
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Tralctatus
, London, 1922, remark 7.

p. 258

Give up haste
Lao-tzu,
Tdo Teh King, The Texts of Taoism
, Part II, Chapter 56, verse 2.

p. 259

Keep silence
Jalal-ud-din Rumi,
Divan i Shams i Tabriz
.

The essence
Kirpal Singh,
Naam or Word
, Delhi, 1970, p. 59.

EPILOGUE:
The Music Beyond

p. 260

It forms
Alain Danielou,
The Raga-s of Northern Indian Music
, London, 1968, p. 21.

How indeed
Boethius,
De InstituHone Musica
. Quoted from
Source Readings in Music History
, Oliver Strunk, New York, 1950, p. 84.

A Note About the Author

R. Murray Schafer was born in Sarnia, Ontario, in 1933. He attended the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, studied in Austria and England, and served as Professor of Communication Studies at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. As a composer, Mr. Schafer has written music in all forms, much of it experimental in nature. He has received several awards and grants for his musical work, including grants from the Canada Council, the Fromm Music Foundation, the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, as well as a Guggenheim fellowship. Mr. Schafer now lives near Bancroft, Ontario.

A Note About the Type

The text of this book was set in a computer version of Palatino, a type face designed by the noted German typographer Hermann Zapf. Named after Giovanbattista Palatino, a writing master of Renaissance Italy, Palatino was the first of Zapf’s type faces to be introduced to America. The first designs for the face were made in 1948, and the fonts for the complete face were issued between 1950 and 1952. Like all Zapf-designed type faces, Palatino is beautifully balanced and exceedingly readable.

The book was designed by Earl Tidwell.

About the Author

A well-known Canadian composer, R. Murray Schafer is the author of several books, including
The Music of the Environment
.

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