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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.

p. 62

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.

p. 66

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.
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