Confronting Silence Selected Writings,9780914913368

Confronting Silence Selected Writings

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ISBN13: 9780914913368
ISBN10: 0914913360
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-01-01
Publisher(s): Scarecrow Press
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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.

Table of Contents

List of Plates
vi
Foreword vii
Author's Preface ix
Translators' Preface xi
Early Writings
Nature and Music (From ``A Composer's Diary'')
3(24)
On His Contemporaries
John Cage
27(5)
Merce Cunningham
32(2)
Jasper Johns
34(2)
Conversation on Seeing
36(10)
The Landscape of the Score
46(5)
East and West
On Music
A Single Sound
51(2)
The Distance from Ud to Biwa
53(3)
Noh and Transience
56(3)
Sound of East, Sound of West
59(10)
On Art
Isamu Noguchi---Traveler
69(2)
Redon Fantasy
71(8)
On His Composing
A Personal Approach
79(4)
Notes on November Steps
83(8)
Mirror and Egg
91(6)
Dream and Number
97(32)
Nature
People and Trees
129(3)
Water
132(5)
Recent Writings
In Memoriam
Music is Life: John Cage, the Elegant Revolutionary
137(2)
The Passing of Feldman, Nono, and Messiaen
139(3)
Gardener of Time
142(3)
Index 145

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