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East / R. Murray Schafer. [music]
Bib ID 491269
Format MusicMusic
Author
Schafer, R. Murray (Raymond Murray), 1933-
 
Description [Canada?] Universal Edition, c1977 
1 score (16 p.) ; 25 cm. 
Notes

For orchestra.

"East is meditation on a text from Isha-Upanishad ... The forty-eight words of the text are punctuated by forty-eight gongs sounding approximately every ten seconds. Each letter in the text is given a pitch value depending on its frequency of occurence in the text and the note-patterns arising from the words form the harmonic and melodic material which the orchestra plays and occasionally sings." --P. 3.

Duration: 8:15.

Subjects Orchestral music - Scores.
Time Coverage 1972 
Also Titled

Upanishads. Ilsopani_sad.

Music Publisher Number UE 15556 
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048 |aoa
100 1 |aSchafer, R. Murray|q(Raymond Murray),|d1933-
245 1 0 |aEast /|cR. Murray Schafer.|h[music]
260 |a[Canada?]|bUniversal Edition,|cc1977.
300 |a 1 score (16 p.) ;|c25 cm.
306 |a000815
500 |aFor orchestra.
500 |a"East is meditation on a text from Isha-Upanishad ... The forty-eight words of the text are punctuated by forty-eight gongs sounding approximately every ten seconds. Each letter in the text is given a pitch value depending on its frequency of occurence in the text and the note-patterns arising from the words form the harmonic and melodic material which the orchestra plays and occasionally sings." --P. 3.
500 |aDuration: 8:15.
650 0 |aOrchestral music|xScores.
730 1 |aUpanishads.|pIlsopani_sad.
984 |a2001|cMUS MUSM 126141
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