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This is the first paperback edition of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackners also hold the manuscripy of this score. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This article describes R. Murray Schafer's 12 music-theater works performed in a forest in Canada. The piece is called Patria and a signed copy of the score is held in the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue contains the first version of "Dicamus et Labyrinthes, a Philologist's Notebook." A subsequent version was published by Arcana Editions in 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Patria is "a cycle of twelve related music dramas created and performed over the last thirty years. Each play in the cycle has a common theme - the search of two lovers for one another through the many labyrinths of life on Earth... This new, definitive edition of Patria contains all twelve parts of the cycle, plus photos, pages from the scores (complex visual artworks in their own right), commentary on the performance of the pieces and Schafer's personal essays on aestheticism. In these remarkable works, the arts court one another: theatre meets ritual, mythology fuses with art, and the line between performer and audience blurs." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book was published both by Arcana Editions and Underwhich Editions and they appear to be identical. The first page begins with the sentence, "I am all that is all that has been all that shall be and none may lift my veil." With each successive page, Chaldean letters are substituted for the English text until by the last page, the sentence is printed completely in the "Chaldean" language. This book is an excellent example of experiental calligraphy.Using a WEB search, the following information about Chaldeans was gleaned. The name Chaldean (pronounces Kal-de'an) stems from one of the ancient groups which inhabited the land presently known as Iraq. In ancient times this area was called Mesopotamia, 'the land between two rivers.' An advanced civilization flourished in this region long before that of Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Many tribes desired this Fertile Crescent. Since the time of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, and Chaldeans, it has been a land of many firsts and...

Scope and Contents This book was published both by Arcana Editions and Underwhich Editions and they appear to be identical. The first page begins with the sentence, "I am all that is all that has been all that shall be and none may lift my veil." With each successive page, Chaldean letters are substituted for the English text until by the last page, the sentence is printed completely in the "Chaldean" language. Thia book is an excellent example of experimental calligraphy.Using a WEB search, the following information about Chaldeans was gleaned. The name Chaldean (pronounces Kal-de'an) stems from one of the ancient groups which inhabited the land presently known as Iraq. In ancient times this area was called Mesopotamia, 'the land between two rivers.' An advanced civilization flourished in this region long before that of Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Many tribes desired this Fertile Crescent. Since the time of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, and Chaldeans, it has been a land of many firsts and...

Scope and Contents Internet Joseph Stevenson: The Crown of Ariadne was written for Canadian harpist Judy Loman, who premiered it on March 3, 1979 in Toronto. It was intended as part of Patria 5, which retells the myths of Theseus, Ariadne, and the Minotaur. Ariadne was the daughter of the King of Crete. Periodically the city of Athens was required to send a shipload of youths and maidens to be herded into the labyrinth (a maze so complex it could not be solved) as sacrifice for the Minotaur. By unwinding thread behind her, she was able to lead the group headed by Theseus (with whom she had fallen in love) out after they slew the Minotaur. She eloped with him, but he abandoned her on the Island of Naxos, where she found true love with the god Bacchus.In this piece the harp represents Ariadne. However, the harpist also plays small percussion instruments such as ankle bells, crotales, cymbals, and wood blocks. She must also sing into the harp through a tube, slide the tuning key up and down the strings,...

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This is the 4th printing of this book first published in 1977 with the title "Tuning of the World." A signed hard cover copy of the 1977 publication is held by the Sackner Archive. Schafer contends that we suffer from an overabundance of acoustic information and explores ways to restore our ability to hear the nuances of sounds around us. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue includes a brief article about artist books in the Mandeville special collection library. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.