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.

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.

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.