Music of Toru Takemitsu

Name: Music of Toru Takemitsu
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ISBN: 9780521026956

ISBN-10: 0521026954

ISBN-13: 9780521026956

Edition: 2006

Authors: Peter Burt, Arnold Whittall

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Toru Takemitsu (19301996) was the best-known Japanese composer of his generation, bringing aspects of Eastern and Western traditions together, yet he remained something of an elusive figure. The composers own commentaries about his music, poetic and philosophical in tone, have tended to deepen the mystery and much writing on Takemitsu to date has adopted a similar attitude, leaving many questions about his compositional methods unanswered. This book is the first complete study of the composers work to appear in English. It is also the first book in this language to offer an in-depth analysis of his music. Takemitsus works are increasingly popular with Western audiences and Peter Burt…

Book details

List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/2/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 308
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.65" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.078

Peter Burt is Vice-Chairman of the Takemitsu Society in the United Kingdom and editor of the Takemitsu Society Newsletter.



Acknowledgements


Notes on conventions


Introduction



Pre-history: how Western music came to Japan



Music and 'pre-music': Takemitsu's early years



Experimental workshop: the years of Jikken Kobo



The Requiem and its reception



Projections onto a Western mirror



'Cage shock' and after



Projections onto an Eastern mirror



Modernist apogee: the early 1970s



Descent into the pentagonal garden



Towards the sea of tonality: the works of the 1980s



Beyond the far calls: the final years



Swimming in the ocean that has no West or East


Notes


List of Takemitsu's work


Bibliography


Index