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R. Murray Schafer
Raymond Murray Schafer CC FRCMT(hon) (July 18, 1933 – August 14, 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.
Born in Sarnia, Ontario, Schafer studied at the Royal Schools of Music in London, with Alberto Guerrero at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and at the University of Toronto, where he was a pupil of Richard Johnston.
His innovative approach to music education repeatedly challenged and transcended orthodox approaches through explorations of the relationships between music, performer, audience, and setting.
He started soundscape studies at Simon Fraser University in the 1960s. His 1977 book, The Tuning of the World, popularized the concept of soundscape (Schafer attributes the invention of the term itself to city planner Michael Southworth). Reviewing the book in The Musical Quarterly, Laske commented that it "is one of those rare texts which simultaneously broaden our notion of musical science and of music itself".
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.
He was a practitioner of graphic notation.
In 1979, a five-record set of Schafer's music was included in the Anthology of Canadian Music Series. The Schafer portrait in the Canadian Composers Portraits series was released in 2003.
Schafer received the first Glenn Gould Prize in 1987. He also received 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.
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R. Murray Schafer
Raymond Murray Schafer CC FRCMT(hon) (July 18, 1933 – August 14, 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.
Born in Sarnia, Ontario, Schafer studied at the Royal Schools of Music in London, with Alberto Guerrero at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and at the University of Toronto, where he was a pupil of Richard Johnston.
His innovative approach to music education repeatedly challenged and transcended orthodox approaches through explorations of the relationships between music, performer, audience, and setting.
He started soundscape studies at Simon Fraser University in the 1960s. His 1977 book, The Tuning of the World, popularized the concept of soundscape (Schafer attributes the invention of the term itself to city planner Michael Southworth). Reviewing the book in The Musical Quarterly, Laske commented that it "is one of those rare texts which simultaneously broaden our notion of musical science and of music itself".
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.
He was a practitioner of graphic notation.
In 1979, a five-record set of Schafer's music was included in the Anthology of Canadian Music Series. The Schafer portrait in the Canadian Composers Portraits series was released in 2003.
Schafer received the first Glenn Gould Prize in 1987. He also received 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.
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