Hunting and post horns encoded opposite directional relationships to landscape

Evidence

Thus the symbolism of the post horn worked differently from that of the hunting horn. It did not draw the listener out into the landscape but, working in reverse, brought news from far away to home. It was centripetal rather than centrifugal in character and its tones were never more pleasant than when it approached the town and delivered its letters and parcels to the expectant. — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 168

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the centripetal vs centrifugal distinction for sound symbolism — a reusable tool for analyzing what a sound does to its listeners spatially.
• FICTION: A soundscape detail that could anchor a period scene: the approach of the post horn as a moment of town-wide expectancy.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 168
• XREF: connects to: Nonhuman animal culture is demonstrably tied to landscape structure — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 227