Confronting Silence: Selected Writings

Toru Takemitsu; Yoshiko Kakudo; Glenn Glasow; Seiji Ozawa

doi:10.5771/9781461664840

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.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/1995
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: Monograph

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
2. 1. John Cage No access
  2. Merce Cunningham No access
  3. Jasper Johns No access
3. Conversation on Seeing No access
4. The Landscape of the Score No access
1. 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
2. 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. 1. Music is Life: John Cage, the Elegant Revolutionary No access
  2. The Passing of Feldman, Nono, and Messiaen No access
2. Gardener of Time No access
Index No access Pages 145 - 155
Permissions No access Pages 156 - 157