Confronting Silence
Selected Writings
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1995
156 pages
978-1-4616-6484-0 (ISBN)
Description
In these writings, available here in English for the first time, the distinguished Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu reflects on his contemporaries, including John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, and Merce Cunningham; on nature, which has profoundly influenced his composition; on film and painting; on relationships between East and West; on traditional Japanese music; and on his own compositions.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United States
ISBN-13
978-1-4616-6484-0 (9781461664840)
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Persons
By Toru Takemitsu; Yoshiko Kakudo; Glenn Glasow and Seiji Ozawa
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Plates
- Foreword
- Author's Preface
- Translators' Preface
- Early Writings
- Nature and Music (From "A Composers Diary")
- On His Contemporaries
- John Cage
- Merce Cunningham
- Jasper Johns
- Conversation on Seeing
- The Landscape of the Score
- East and West
- On Music
- A Single Sound
- The Distance from Ud to Biwa
- Noh and Transience
- Sound of East, Sound of West
- On Art
- Isamu Noguchi-Traveler
- Redon Fantasy
- On His Composing
- A Personal Approach
- Notes on November Steps
- Mirror and Egg
- Dream and Number
- Nature
- People and Trees
- Water
- Recent Writings
- In Memoriam
- Music is Life: John Cage, the Elegant Revolutionary
- The Passing of Feldman, Nono, and Messiaen
- Gardener of Time
- Index
- Permissions
