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]
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Contributor(s): Kakudo, Yoshiko [editor, translator] | Glasow, Glenn [editor, translator].
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BookSeries: 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 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 780.92 TAK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00235569 | ||
| General lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 780.92 TAK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00101222 |
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.