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Confronting silence : selected writings / Toru Takemitsu ; translated and edited by Yoshiko Kakudo and Glenn Glasow ; with a foreword by Seiji Ozawa.

By: Takemitsu, Tōru [author].
Contributor(s): Kakudo, Yoshiko [editor, translator] | Glasow, Glenn, 1924-2002 [editor, translator].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Fallen Leaf monographs on contemporary composers: 1Publisher: Berkeley, California : Fallen Leaf Press, [1995]Description: xv, 156 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0914913360 (paperback); 9780914913368 (paperback).Subject(s): Music -- History and criticismDDC classification: 780.92 TAK
Contents:
Early writings -- East and west -- On his composing -- Nature -- Recent writings.
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General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending 780.92 TAK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00235569
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Early writings -- East and west -- On his composing -- Nature -- Recent writings.

Alan Cutts Collection.