p. 7
Therefore the music Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game, New York, 1969, p. 30.
p. 8
When a writer Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Boston, 1929, see Chapter 4.
p. 9
The days are hot Ibid., p. 126.
William Faulkner William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, New York, 1960, p. 202.
p. 11
rural Africans J. C. Carothers, “Culture, Psychiatry and the Written Word,” Psychiatry, November, 1959, pp. 308–310.
Terror Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy, Toronto, 1962, p. 32.
CHAPTER ONE: The Natural Soundscape
p. 15
Some say that Robert Graves, The Greek Myths (according to Hera’s statement in the Iliad, XIV), New York, 1955, p. 30.
the waters little The Questions of King Milinda, trans. T. W. Rhys Davids, Vol. XXXV of The Sacred Books of the East, Oxford, 1890, p. 175.
p. 16
And poor old Homer The Cantos of Ezra Pound, London, 1954, p. 10.
For fifty days Hesiod, Works and Days, lines 663–665, trans. R. Lattimore, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1968.
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waves roared The Saga of the Volsungs, ed. R. G. Finch, London, 1965, p. 15.
Splashing oars First Lay of Helgi, lines 104–110, trans, by the author.
Waves coming Laragia tribe, Australia, Technicians of the Sacred, ed. J. Rothenberg, New York, 1969, p. 314.
Lithe turning The Cantos of Ezra Pound, op. cit., pp. 13–14
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The wanderer Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, London, 1920, p. 341.
whirling and sucking Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, in Walden and Other Writings, New York, 1937, p. 413.
producing a hollow J. Fenimore Cooper, The Pathfinder, New York, 1863, p. 115.
p. 19
For the noise Emil Ludwig, The Nile, trans. M. H. Lindsay, New York, 1937, pp. 250–251.
the soft splash Somerset Maugham, The Gentleman in the Parlour, London, 1940, p. 159.
Water slapped Thomas Mann, “Death in Venice,” Stories of Three Decades, New York, 1936, p. 421.
The rain drops Emily Carr, Hundreds and Thousands, Toronto/Vancouver, 1966, p. 305.
the thunder boomed Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, New York, 1950, p. 244.
p. 20
The Illustrated Glossary T. Armstrong, B. Roberts and C. Swithinbank, The Illustrated Glossary of Snow and Ice, Cambridge, 1966.
In wintertime George Green, History of Burnaby and Vicinity, Vancouver, 1947, p. 3.
p. 21
we glided along F. Philip Grove, Over Prairie Trails, Toronto, 1922, p. 91.
Nor is anything Hugh MacLennan, The Watch That Ends the Night, Toronto, 1961, p. 5.
The violent Russian Igor Stravinsky, Memories and Commentaries, London, 1960, p. 30.
and inside each Hesiod, Theogony, lines 829–835, trans. R. Lattimore, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1968.
p. 22
Le vaste trouble Victor Hugo, Les Travailleurs de la Mer, Paris, 1869, pp. 191–192.
The wind could W. O. Mitchell, Who Has Seen the Wind?, Toronto, 1947, pp. 191 and 235.
To dwellers Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree, London, 1903, p. 3.
p. 23
The silence Emily Carr, The Book of Small, Toronto, 1942, p. 119.
p. 24
for, though the quiet J. Fenimore Cooper, op. cit., pp. 104–105.
It is rather difficult Pseudo-Plutarch, Treatise on Rivers and Mountains. Quoted from F. D. Adams, The Birth and Development of the Geological Sciences, New York, 1954, p. 31.
p. 25
the earth tremors The Saga of the Volsungs, op. cit., pp. 30–31.
his hair stood The Lay of Thrym, from The Elder Edda, trans. Patricia Terry, New York, 1969, p. 88.
the infinite great Hesiod, Theogony, op. cit., lines 678–694.
Then the Earth Dion Cassius, quoted from Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth, Book III, Chapter VII (1691), Carbondale, Illinois, 1965, p. 275.
p. 26
At the crater Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson, personal communication.
Within three or four David Simmons, personal communication.
I did not reach Heinrich Heine, “Die Harzreise,” Sämtliche Werke, Vol. 2, Munich, 1969, pp. 19–20.
p. 27
Howl ye Isaiah 13:6 and 13.
p. 28
By the din Jalal-ud-din Rumi, Divan i Shams i Tabriz.
They put their fingers Qur’an, 2:19.
Several times The Eruption of Krakatoa, Report of the Krakatoa Committee of the Royal Society, London, 1888, pp. 79–80.
CHAPTER TWO: The Sounds of Life
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is so intense A. J. Marshall, “The Function of Vocal Mimicry in Birds,” Emu, Melbourne, Vol. 50, 1950, p. 9.
p. 30
Hawfinch From E. M. Nicholson and Ludwig Koch, Songs of Wild Birds, London, 1946.
p. 31
The quincunxes Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, 1862. Quoted from Landscape Painting of the Nineteenth Century, Marco Valsecchi, New York, 1971, p. 106.
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absolutely nothing Ferdinand Kümberger, Der Amerika-müde, 1855. Quoted from David Lowenthal, “The American Scene,” The Geographical Review, Vol. LVIII, No. 1, 1968, p. 71.
Everything Nicolai Gogol, Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, 1831–32. Quoted from Marco Valsecchi, op. cit., p. 279.
How enchanting Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, New York, 1958, p. 11.
What could be Maxim Gorky, Childhood. Quoted from Marco Valsecchi, op. cit., p. 279.
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The noise Somerset Maugham, The Gentleman in the Parlour, London, 1940, p. 138.
The owl’s F. Philip Grove, Over Prairie Trails, Toronto, 1922, p. 35.
p. 34
His ears Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, trans. C. Garnett, New York, 1965, p. 837.
The flight Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, trans. C. Garnett, London, 1971, p. 944.
a cry Virgil, Georgics, Book IV, lines 62–64 and 70–72, trans. C. Day Lewis, New York, 1964.
p. 35
It remember Julian Huxley and Ludwig Koch, Animal Language, New York, 1964, p. 24.
The bleating Compare Virgil’s Eclogue II with Pope’s paraphrase, The Second Pastoral.
p. 36
May the fallows Theocritus, Idyll XVI, edited and translated by A. S. F. Gow, Vol. 1, Cambridge, 1950, p. 129.
It is not our purpose A good general survey of this subject, and a book from which we have drawn numerous facts, is Animal Language by Julian Huxley and Ludwig Koch, New York, 1964.
p. 37
refused to believe Julian Huxley and Ludwig Koch, op. cit., p. 41.
p. 40
One must have heard Marius Schneider, “Primitive Music,” The New Oxford History of Music, Vol. 1, London, 1957, p. 9.
Now, it is Otto Jespersen, Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin, London, 1964, pp. 420 and 437.
CHAPTER THREE: The Rural Soundscape
p. 43
He was disturbed Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, London, 1920, p. 291.
p. 44
When I hear Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther), in Werke, Vol. 19, Weimar, 1899, p. 8.
Hyblaean bees Virgil, The Pastoral Poems, Eclogue I, trans. E. V. Rieu, Harmonds-worth, Middlesex, 1949.
Sweet Theocritus, edited and translated by A. S. F. Gow, Vol. I, Idyll I, Cambridge, 1950.
p. 45
The music struck Virgil, The Pastoral Poems, op. cit., Eclogue VI.
Practice country Ibid., Eclogue I.
Now and then Alain-Fournier, The Wanderer (Le Grand Meaulnes), trans. L. Bair, New York, 1971, p. 29.
The shepherd Thomas Hardy, “Fellow Townsmen,” Wessex Tales, London, 1920, p. 111.
Sigmund blew The Saga of the Volsungs, ed. R. G. Finch, London, 1965, p.
20.
p. 46
The hounds’ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, trans. C. Garnett, London, 1971, p. 536.
It was still quite dark Hildegard Westerkamp, personal communication.
p. 47
In Germany Private communication from the Deutsches Bundesministerium fiir das Post-und Fernmeldewesen.
In Austria Dr. Ernst Popp, personal communication.
Through the narrow Karl Thieme, “Zur Geschichte des Posthorns,” in Posthorn-schule und Posthorn-Taschenliederbuch, Friedrich Gumbert, Leipzig, 1908, pp. 6–7.
p. 48
One farmer Virgil, Georgics, Book I, lines 291–296, trans. Smith Palmer Bo vie, Chicago, 1956.
p. 49
The grass Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, trans. C. Garnett, New York, 1965, p. 270.
The peasant Ibid., p. 291.
Such was the life Virgil, Georgics, Book II, lines 538–540, trans. C. Day Lewis, New York, 1964.
At the shouts The Epic of the Kings (Sháh-náma), trans. Reuben Levy, Chicago, 1967, p. 57.
p. 50
One should send Onasander, The General, XXIX, trans. William A. Oldfather et al, London, 1923, p. 471.
By the rendering Tacitus, Germania, trans. H. Mattingly and S. A. Handford, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1970, p. 103.
It was at three H. G. Wells, The Outline of History, New York, 1920, p. 591.
p. 51
In general Samuel Rosen et al, “Presbycusis Study of a Relatively Noise-Free Population in the Sudan,” American Otological Society, Transactions, Vol. 50, 1962, pp. 140–141.
CHAPTER FOUR: From Town to City
p. 54
One sound rose Johan Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages, New York, 1954, pp. 10–11.
The great convenience Dr. Charles Burney, An Eighteenth-Century Musical Tour in Central Europe and the Netherlands, Vol. II, London, 1959, p. 6.
On the other side Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage, New York, 1911, p. 211.
p. 55
The church clock Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, London, 1922, p. 238.
Other clocks Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterhridge, London, 1920, pp. 32–33.
p. 56
Post office By-law No. 98–63 (1963).
Amongst the Western Oswald Spengler, Der Untergang des Abendlandes, Vol. 1, Munich, 1923, p. 8.
p. 57
Where the lake Ippolito Nievo, Confessions of an Octogenarian, 1867. Quoted from Landscape Painting of the Nineteenth Century, Marco Valsecchi, New York, 1971, p. 184.
a remote resemblance Thomas Hardy, The Trumpet-Major, London, 1920, p. 2.
Awakening Maxim Gorky, The Artamonous, Moscow, 1952, p. 404.
the sounds W. O. Mitchell, Who Has Seen the Wind?, Toronto, 1947, p. 230.
p. 58
We started James Morier, The Adventures ofHajji Baba of Ispahan, New York, 1954, p. 19.
p. 59
The first streets Eric Nicol, Vancouver, Toronto, 1970, p. 54.
p. 60
The curfew Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterhridge, op. cit., p. 32.
I had James Morier, op. cit., p. 123.
p. 61
Later that night Alain-Fournier, The Wanderer (Le Grand Meaulnes), trans. L. Bair, New York, 1971, pp. 124–125.
One was a Dandy Leigh Hunt, Essays and Sketches, London, 1912, pp. 73–74.
There was the faint Virginia Woolf, Orlando, London, 1960, p. 203.
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I go to bed Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, New York, 1966, pp. 136–137.
The creaking Charles Mair, 1868. Quoted from Life at Red River, Keith Wilson, Toronto, 1970, p. 12.
I denounce Arthur Schopenhauer, “On Noise,” The Pessimist’s Handbook, trans. T. Bailey Saunders, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1964, pp. 217–218.
p. 63
the moist circuit Leigh Hunt, op. cit., p. 258.
Pyotr Artamonov and gather on the bank Op. cit., pp. 22–23.
p. 64
Labor Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization, New York, 1934, p. 201.
Turn your eyes Renato Fucini, Naples Through a Naked Eye, 1878. Quoted from Marco Valsecchi, op. cit., p. 182.
Usually Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Vertraute Briefe aus Paris Geschrieben in den Jahren 1802 und 1803, Erster Theil, Hamburg, 1804, p. 252.
p. 65
13 different Sir Frederick Bridge, “The Musical Cries of London in Shakespeare’s Time,” Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, Vol. XLVI, London, 1919, pp. 13–20.
Between the acts Johann Friedrich Reichardt, op. cit., pp. 248–249.
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Your correspondents Michael T. Bass, Street Music in the Metropolis, London, 1864, p. 41.
one-fourth part Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, London, 1864, p. 345.
CHAPTER FIVE: The Industrial Revolution
p. 73
A hasty lunch Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Vol. 1, London, 1920, p. 416.
The little Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir, Paris, 1927, pp. 3–4.
p. 74
A vague Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Renee Mauperin, 1864. Quoted from Landscape Painting of the Nineteenth Century, Marco Valsecchi, New York, 1971, p. 107.
We are encompassed Thomas Mann, “A Man and His Dog,” Stories of Three Decades, New York, 1936, pp. 440–441.
As they worked D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow, New York, 1943, p. 6.
p. 75
I happened Report of the Sadler Factory Investigating Committee, London, 1832, p. 99.
Is one part Ibid., p. 159.
Stephen bent Charles Dickens, Hard Times for These Times, London, 1955, p. 69.
And now it had occurred Emile Zola, Germinal, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1954, p. 311.
Fosbroke Cf. John Fosbroke, “Practical Observations on the Pathology and Treatment of Deafness,” Lancet, VI, 1831, pp. 645–648; and T. Ban, “Enquiry into the Effects of Loud Sounds upon Boilermakers,” Proceedings of the Glasgow Philosophical Society, 17, 1886, p. 223.
p. 80
musically Jess J. Josephs, The Physics of Musical Sounds, Princeton, N.J., 1967, p. 20.
Night and day Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London, 1950, p. 219.
p. 81
Louder Ibid., p. 281.
Then the shrill D. H. Lawrence, op. cit., p. 6.
The Canadian Jean Reed, personal communication.
p. 83
the trend David Apps, General Motors; personal communication.
p. 84
present a definite Snowmobile Noise, Its Sources, Hazards and Control, APS-477, National Research Council, Ottawa, 1970.
p. 85
Air travel E. J. Richards, “Noise and the Design of Airports,” Conference on World Airports—The Way Ahead, London, 1969, p. 63.
p. 86
a growth Ibid., p. 69.
On the basis William A. Shurcliff, SSTand Sonic Boom Handbook, New York, 1970, p. 24.
CHAPTER SIX: The Electric Revolution
p. 91
We should not “Ohne Kraftwagen, ohne Flugzeug und ohne Lautsprecher hätten wir Deutschland nicht erobert,” Adolf Hitler, Manual of the German Radio, 1938–39.
When I go Emily Carr, Hundreds and Thousands, Toronto/Vancouver, 1966, pp. 230–231.
p. 92
At once Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf, New York, 1963, p. 239.
It takes hold Ibid., p. 240.
p. 94
in the fact that Sergei M. Eisenstein, The Film Sense, trans. Jay Leyda, London, 1943, p. 14.
p. 97
MUZAK Classified Section, Vancouver Telephone Directory, British Columbia Telephone Company, 1972, p. 424.
program specialists Environs, Vol. 2, No. 3, published by the Muzak Corporation.
Each 15-minute Ibid.
p. 98
Music Library Memo from the firm of Bolt Berenak and Newman to Dr. Robert Fink, Head, Music Department, Western Michigan University.
p. 99
CHAPTER SEVEN: Music, the Soundscape and Changing Perceptions
p. 104
easy and insatiable The phrase is Raymond Williams’s.
urban activity See The Oxford Companion to Music, London, 1950, p. 900.
p. 105
At their due times Gottfried von Strassburg, Tristan, trans. A. T. Hatto, Har-mondsworth, Middlesex, 1960, pp. 262–263.
p. 108
with the increase Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization, New York, 1934, pp. 202–203.
p. 109
Complaints Quoted from Kurt Blaukopf, Hexenkuche der Musik, Teufen, Switzerland, 1959, p. 45.
p. 110
signifies Oswald Spengler, Der Untergang des Abendlandes, Munich, 1923, Vol. I, p. 375.
I take it that music Ezra Pound, Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony, New York, 1968, p. 53.
In antiquity Luigi Russolo, The Art of Noises, New York, pp. 3–8.
p. 116
It is recorded Michel P. Philippot, “Observations on Sound Volume and Music Listening,” New Patterns of Musical Behaviour, Vienna, 1974, p. 55.
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