Name R. Schafer | Role Composer | |
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Occupation(s) Composer, librettist, pedagogue, writer, educator, environmentalist Awards Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year Compositions Le Cri de Merlin, Le Cri de Merlin, Letters From Mignon, Letters From Mignon, The Darkly Splendid Earth: The Lonely Traveller, The Darkly Splendid Earth: The Lonely Traveller, Duo For Violin And Piano, Duo For Violin And Piano, Concerto for Harpsichord and Eight Wind Instruments, Concerto for Harpsichord and Eight Wind Instruments, String Quartet No 8, String Quartet No 8, Quatuors a cordes No 12, Quatuors a cordes No 12, Dream Rainbow Dream Thunder, Dream Rainbow Dream Thunder, Theseus, Theseus, String Quartet No 5 - 'Rosalind', String Quartet No 5 - 'Rosalind', Adieu - Robert Schumann - The Garden of the Heart, Adieu - Robert Schumann - The Garden of the Heart, Credo, Credo, Once On A Windy Night, Once On A Windy Night, Trio for Violin - Viola and Cello, Trio for Violin - Viola and Cello, Gitanjali - The Garden of the Heart, Gitanjali - The Garden of the Heart, Concerto For Flute and Orchestra, Concerto For Flute and Orchestra Books The tuning of the world, The soundscape, Patria: The Complete Cycle, My Life on Earth and Elsewhere, Ear cleaning Similar People Judy Loman, Igor Stravinsky, Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ariel Ramirez | ||
Birth name Raymond Murray Schafer | ||
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Raymond Murray Schafer, (born 18 July 1933) is 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 notably the first recipient of the Jules Léger Prize in 1978.
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The musical mind 2 r murray schafer composer
Biography
Born in Sarnia, Ontario, he studied at the Royal Schools of Music in London, the Royal Conservatory of Music, 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." Steven Feld, borrowing a term from Gregory Bateson, calls the recombination and recontextualization of sounds split from their sources schismogenesis.
In 1987 he was awarded the first Glenn Gould Prize in recognition of his contributions. In 2005 he 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. In 2009, Schafer received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts. 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".
Schafer is a practitioner of graphic notation.
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