UID:
almafu_9959227248002883
Format:
1 online resource (257 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4426-1509-5
Series Statement:
Canadian Composers = 4
Content:
Murray Schafer is one of Canada's few composers to have achieved an international reputation. His innovative and often controversial work extends beyond music into the areas of education, literary scholarship, journalism, theatre, and graphics, as well as a new field of his own making--environmental sound research. This comprehensive critical survey of his life and works reveals the unifying pattern within an amazingly productive and varied career. Adams examines Schafer's extensive writings, which form the intellectual context of his music. Though Schafer is both avant-gardist and self-confessed romantic, his writings solve this apparent paradox and show, as well, the central position of the 'soundscape' in his thought. Adam traces the development of Schafer's music from his early works in a mild neo-classical vein to his experimentation with various modernist procedures--serialism, electronic sound, stereophony, graphic notations, and elements of chance--all of which he fused together in his first stage of work or 'audio-visual poem, ' Loving, in 1965. This volume includes a full bibliography, discography, and catalogue of his works.
Note:
"This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and a grant from the Publications Fund of the University of Toronto Press"--Title page verso.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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Acknowledgments --
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1. Biography --
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2. Writings --
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3. Early works 1952-9 --
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4. Stylistic experiment 1960-5 --
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5. Loving (1965) --
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6. Lustro (1969-72) --
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7. Instrumental works since 1965 --
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8. Vocal and choral works since 1965 --
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9. The Patria sequence (1966- ) --
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10. Epilogue (1979- ) --
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Notes --
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APPENDIX 1. Compositions by R. Murray Schafer --
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APPENDIX 2. Discography --
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APPENDIX 3. Synopsis of Loving --
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APPENDIX 4. Synopsis of Apocalypsis --
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APPENDIX 5. Synopsis of Patria --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4426-5132-6
Language:
English
Keywords:
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.3138/9781442615090
