Patria The Complete Cycle Author:R. Murray Schafer Patria (Latin for 'homeland') is composer R. Murray Schafer's life work, a cycle of ten music dramas created and performed over the last thirty years. All the plays have as a theme the search of two lovers for one another through the many labyrinths of life on Earth. This definitive edition contains all ten pieces, plus photos, scores (complex v... more »isual artworks in their own right), commentary on the performance and Schafer's personal essays on aestheticism. Here, the arts court one another, mythology fuses with art, and the line between performer and audience blurs.« less