The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment And The Tuning Of The World (55 page)

The bell denotes
Durandus, Bishop of Mende, 1286. Quoted from
Tintinnabula
, Ernest Morris, London, 1959, pp. 43–44.

p. 175

The whole air
Emily Can*,
Hundreds and Thousands
, Toronto/Vancouver, 1966, pp. 248–249.

p. 177

Holy Rosary Cathedral
See
The Vancouver Soundscape
, Vancouver, 1974, and
Five Village Soundscapes
, Vancouver, 1976.

seven church bells
The account is to be found in Strindberg’s
The Red Room
, New York/London, 1967, pp. 2–3.

center of the bell
I have borrowed this paragraph and numerous other ideas about the symbolism of the horn from an unpublished study of the subject by Bruce Davis.

p. 178

Greek word siren
Cf. Gabriel Germain, “The Sirens and the Temptation of Knowledge,” in
Homer
, eds. G. Steiner and R. Fagles, New Jersey, 1962, p. 94.

p. 180

And, sitting in
Albert Camus,
The Outsider
, trans. Stuart Gilbert, Harmonds-worth, Middlesex, 1972, pp. 98 and 104–105.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN:
Noise

p. 184

some researchers
Alexander Cohen
et al
, “Sociocusis—Hearing Loss from Non-Occupational Noise Exposure,”
Sound and Vibration
, 4:11, November, 1970.

See also Clifford R. Bragdon,
Noise Pollution: The Unquiet Crisis
, Philadelphia, 1971, pp. 74–76.

power lawnmowers
William A. Shearer, “Acoustical Threshold Shift from Power Lawnmower Noise,”
Sound and Vibration
, 2:10, October, 1968.

rock concerts
See
Time
magazine, August 9, 1968, p. 51.

Russian researchers
“Seminaire Interregional sur l’Habitat dans ses Rapports avec la Sante Public,” World Health Organization PA/185.65. See summary in WHO
Chronicle
, October, 1966.

p. 185

Dr. Samuel Rosen
Samuel Rosen
et al
, “Presbycusis Study of a Relatively Noise-Free Population in the Sudan,” American Otological Society,
Transactions
, Vol. 50, 1962.

traffic noise A Community Noise Survey
, Greater Vancouver Regional District, 1971, p. 12.

p. 189

In those days The Epic of Gilgamesh
, trans. N. K. Saunders, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1971, p. 105.

p. 190

By the thirteenth century
A. L. Poole, ed.,
Medieval England
, Vol. 1, Oxford, 1958, pp. 252–254.

p. 196

Venezuela
Venezuela,
Gaceta Municipal
, Capitulo 1, articulo quinto (1972).

Tunis
Ville de Tunis,
Arrete du 17 Octobre, 1951
, art. 5.

p. 197

Voyage en Icarie
Etienne Cabet,
Voyage en Icarie
, Paris, 1842, p. 65.

p. 198

In Luxembourg
Ville de Luxembourg,
Reglement General de Police
, Chapitre II, art. 32.

In Bonn
Bonn,
Strassenordnung
, para. 5 (1970).

In Freiburg
Freiburg,
Polizeiverordnung
, para. 2 (1968).

Between the hours
Ville de Tunis,
Arrete sur le Bruit
, article premier (1955).

one incident
Albert Camus,
The Outsider
, trans. Stuart Gilbert, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1972, pp. 104–105.

schnitzels
Dr. Hublinger, Essen; personal communication.

mah-jong parties
C. McGugan, Assistant to the Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong; personal communication.

hotels in India
See S. K. Chatterjee, R. N. Sen and P. N. Saha, “Determination of the Level of Noise Originating from Room Air-Conditioners,”
tte Heating and Ventilating Engineer and Journal of Air-Conditioning
, Vol. 38, No. 59, February, 1965, pp. 429–433.

p. 199

Mombasa (Kenya)
D. S. Obhrai, Town Clerk, Mombasa; personal communication.

Auckland (New Zealand)
R. Agnew, Chief City Health Inspector, Auckland; personal communication.

Rabat (Morocco)
Mohamed Sbith, Prefecture de Rabat-Sale; personal communication.

Izmir (Turkey)
Izmir,
By-law Concerning Bus Terminals
, art. 25.

auctioneer’s bells
The repeal is contained in City of Melbourne, By-law 418 (1961).

No bell or crier
Manila, Ordinance No. 1600, Sect. 846 (1961).

Manila Ibid
.

Vendors Ibid
., Sect. 846-a.

Another ordinance
Manila, Ordinance No. 4708, Sect. 848-a (1963).

Monday to Saturday
Municipalidad de San Salvador,
Ley del Ramo Municipal
, art. 8 (1951).

The same sound
Arthur Paulus, Ville de Luxembourg, Administration des travaux; personal communication.

p. 200

Manila restricts
Manila, Ordinance No. 1600, Sect. 847 (1961).

In Chiclayo (Peru)
Chiclayo,
Reglamento sobre Supresion de Ruidos Molestos en las Cuidades
, art. 11 (1957).

In Genoa
Genoa,
Regolamenta di Polizia Comunale
, art. 64 (1969).

and Hartford
Hartford, City Ordinance, 21–2k (1967).

Damascus (Syria)
Damascus, By-law No. 401, Sect. 3, para. 8 (1950).

In Canada
Cf.
A Survey of Community Noise By-laws in Canada (1972)
. World Soundscape Project, Burnaby, B.C.

Adelaide (Australia)
Adelaide, By-law No. IX, Sect. 3–1 (1937).

Buffalo (New York)
Buffalo, Noise Control Ordinance, art. XVII, paras. 1703–11.

Sioux City (Iowa)
Sioux City, Ordinance No. 21954, Sec. 9–11 (1972).

It shall be
Oklahoma City, The Charter and General Code, Chapter 3, 9.3.09 (1960).

Salisbury (Rhodesia)
Wm. Alves, Mayor of Salisbury; personal communication.

A person using
LA. McCutcheon, Town Clerk; personal communication.

p. 201

Noises associated
Mary Douglas, “The Lele of Kasai,” in Daryll Forde, ed.,
African Worlds: Studies in the Cosmological Ideas and Social Values of African Peoples
, London, 1963, p. 12.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
:
Listening

p. 207

Hare Krishna sect
Cf.
Regina vs. Clay Harrold
, Vancouver Court of Appeal, March 19, 1971.

p. 212

David Lowenthal
David Lowenthal, “The American Scene,”
The Geographical Review
, Vol. LVIII, No. 1, 1968, p. 72.

Mark Twain
Mark Twain,
Life on the Mississippi
, New York and London, 1929, pp. 79–80.

William James
William James, “On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings,” in
Talks to Teachers on Psychology
, New York, 1958, pp. 149–169.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN
:
The Acoustic Community

p. 215

Between these ramparts
Notker the Stammerer,
Life of Charlemagne
, trans. Lewis Thorpe, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1969, p. 136.

p. 216

closed windows
Quoted from Kurt Blaukopf,
Hexenkuche der Musik
, Teufen, Switzerland, 1959, p. 45.

p. 217

no echo answers
Quoted from David Lowenthal, “The American Scene,”
The Geographical Review
, Vol. LVIII, No. 1, 1968, p. 71.

The dense forest
George Green,
History of Burnaby and Vicinity
, Vancouver, 1947, p. 22.

p. 219

One voice
Lucretius,
De Rerum Natura
, trans W. H. D, Rouse, London, 1924, pp. 289–291.

tenths of a second
W. C. Sabine,
Collected Papers on Acoustics
, New York, 1964, p. 170.

p. 221

It is probable Ibid
., p. 255.

Hence in accordance
Vitruvius,
De Architectura
, Book V, trans. F. Granger, London, 1970, pp. 277–279.

Someone will say Ibid
., p. 281.

p. 223

On the other hand
Leslie L. Doelle,
Environmental Acoustics
, New York, 1972, pp. 3, 6, 19–20.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN
:
Rhythm and Tempo in the Soundscape

p. 226

The heartbeat range
See the graph in Abraham Moles,
Information Theory and Esthetic Perception
, London, 1966, p. 139.

p. 228

in Proust
See Walter Benjamin,
Illuminations
, New York, 1969, p. 214.

He heard
Leo Tolstoy,
Anna Karenina
, trans. C. Garnett, New York, 1965, pp. 265 and 267.