The music of Tōru Takemitsu /
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| Author / Creator: | Burt, Peter, 1955- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001. |
| Description: | xi, 294 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Music in the twentieth century |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4511873 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on conventions
- Introduction
- 1. Pre-history: how Western music came to Japan
- 2. Music and 'pre-music': Takemitsu's early years
- 3. Experimental workshop: the years of Jikken Kobo
- 4. The Requiem and its reception
- 5. Projections onto a Western mirror
- 6. 'Cage shock' and after
- 7. Projections onto an Eastern mirror
- 8. Modernist apogee: the early 1970s
- 9. Descent into the pentagonal garden
- 10. Towards the sea of tonality: the works of the 1980s
- 11. Beyond the far calls: the final years
- 12. Swimming in the ocean that has no West or East
- Notes
- List of Takemitsu's work
- Bibliography
- Index
