Main entry:

Schafer, R. Murray, composer.

Title & Author:

The soundscape : our sonic environment and the tuning of the world / R. Murray Schafer.

Publication:

Rochester, Vermont : Destiny Books, [1994]
[United States] : Distributed to the Book trade in the United States by American International Distribution Corp.
©1994

Description:

xii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part one : First soundscapes. The natural soundscape ; The sounds of life ; The rural soundscape ; From town to city -- Part two : The post-industrial soundscape. The industrial revolution ; The electric revolution -- Interlude. Music, the soundscape and changing perceptions -- Part three : Analysis. Notation ; Classification ; Perception ; Morphology ; Symbolism ; Noise -- Part four : Toward acoustic design. Listening ; The acoustic community ; Rhythm and tempo in the soundscape ; The acoustic designer ; The soniferous garden ; Silence ; The music beyond.
Originally published: The tuning of the world. New York : Knopf, 1977.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0892814551 (paper)
9780892814558 (paper)

Subject:

Music Acoustics and physics.
Sound.
Music Philosophy and aesthetics.
Sound art.
Musique Acoustique et physique.
Son.
Musique Philosophie et esthťique.
Musique Philosophie et esthétique.
Art sonore.
sound (acoustics)
sound art.
24.46 physiology and technology of music.
Geluid.
Akoestiek.
Muziekfilosofie.
Musikk.
Lyd.
Natur.
Akustikk.
Fysikk.
Filosofi.
Musikkestetikk.
Acoustique musicale.
Bruit.
Bruit naturel.
Esthétique musicale.
Environnement sonore.
Musique.

Form/genre:

sound art.
Sound art
Art sonore.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 241407
Call No.: BIB 171309
Status: Available