Bay of Fundy Nature Conservancy of Canada. Some sources believe the name "Fundy" is a corruption of the French word "Fendu", meaning "split", while others believe it comes from the Portuguese "funda", meaning "deep". The bay was also named Baie Française (French Bay) by Samuel de Champlain during a 1604 expedition to St. Croix Island. The Bay of Fundy has a high tidal range. Oceanographers attribute it to tidal resonance resulting from a coincidence of timing: the time it takes a large wave to go from the mouth of the bay to the inner shore and back is practically the same as the
The Tides of Manaunaun The Tides of Manaunaun The Tides of Manaunaun is a short piano piece in B minor by American composer Henry Cowell (1897–1965). It premiered publicly in 1917, serving as a prelude to a theatrical production, "The Building of Banba". "The Tides of Manaunaun" is the best known of Cowell's many tone cluster pieces. "The Building of Banba", for which "The Tides of Manaunaun" was composed, was based on Irish mythological poems by the theosophist John Osborne Varian. "The Building of Banba" has been described by some scholars as a "pageant" or "play", and by Cowell himself (more than fifty years