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Confronting Silence

Selected Writings
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 1995

Summary

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.



Bibliographic data

Copyright year
1995
ISBN-Print
978-0-914913-31-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-6484-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
157
Product type
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Table of contents

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    1. Table of Contents No access
    2. List of Plates No access
    3. Foreword No access
    4. Author's Preface No access
    5. Translators' Preface No access
    1. Nature and Music (From "A Composers Diary") No access
      1. John Cage No access
      2. Merce Cunningham No access
      3. Jasper Johns No access
    2. Conversation on Seeing No access
    3. The Landscape of the Score No access
      1. A Single Sound No access
      2. The Distance from Ud to Biwa No access
      3. Noh and Transience No access
      4. Sound of East, Sound of West No access
      1. Isamu Noguchi-Traveler No access
      2. Redon Fantasy No access
    1. A Personal Approach No access
    2. Notes on November Steps No access
    3. Mirror and Egg No access
    4. Dream and Number No access
    1. People and Trees No access
    2. Water No access
      1. Music is Life: John Cage, the Elegant Revolutionary No access
      2. The Passing of Feldman, Nono, and Messiaen No access
    1. Gardener of Time No access
  1. Index No access Pages 145 - 155
  2. Permissions No access Pages 156 - 157

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