Confronting silence :selected writings
- 作者: Takemitsu, Tōru,
- 其他作者: Kakudo, Yoshiko. , Glasow, Glenn,
- 出版: Berkeley, Calif. : Fallen Leaf Press 1995.
- 稽核項: xv, 155 pages :illustrations ;24 cm.
- 叢書名: Fallen Leaf monographs on contemporary composers ;1
- 標題: History and criticism. , Music , Music History and criticism.
- ISBN: 0914913360 , 9780914913368
- 附註: Includes bibliographical references and index. Nature and music (from "A composer's diary") -- On his contemporaries. John Cage. Merce Cunningham. Jasper Johns -- Conversation on seeing -- The landscape of the score -- On music. A single sound. The distance from ud to biwa. Noh and transience. Sound of East, sound of West -- On art. Isamu Noguchi -- Traveler. Redon fantasy -- A personal approach -- Notes on November steps -- Mirror and egg -- Dream and number -- People and trees -- Water. Music is life: John Cage, the elegant revolutionary. The passing of Feldman, Nono, and Messiaen -- Gardener of time.
- 摘要: Although internationally recognized as a major twentieth-century composer, Toru Takemitsu as author is relatively unknown except to Japanese-speaking readers. Since 1960, he has written numerous essays and commentaries, most of which have been published in Japan. Confronting Silence is the first collection of his writings to be translated into English. For the present volume, he has selected writings covering a wide range of subjects: art and artists, movies, his contemporaries, nature in all of its manifestations (a favorite topic), and, of course, music - traditional and contemporary, Eastern and Western, folk music, and his own compositions and approach to composing. , Takemitsu's desire to express thoughts in prose as well as music, not typical of Japanese composers until recently, is more frequently associated with nineteenth-century European composers. With little interest in program music, Takemitsu does not believe that words explain the essence of music. Words are important in his own compositional technique, however, and his interest in writing is certainly more than casual. Words stimulate his imagination and give rise literally to images that in turn activate his sensibilities in his search for sound, the real essence of music.
- 系統號: 005265564
- 資料類型: 圖書
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The largest body of Takemitsu's writing to be translated into English so far. The internationally acclaimed composer of concert and film music (Woman in the Dunes, Ran) offers his own selection of his writings on eastern and western music, composers, the process of composing, and nature. Paper edition (36-0), $18.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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