Peter Burt, Burt Peter

The Music of Toru Takemitsu

Herausgeber: Whittall, Arnold

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first complete study of Toru Takemitsu's work to appear in English.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780521026956
• ISBN-10: 0521026954
• Artikelnr.: 21582328

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.