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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog alternative "Literary works. Selections. English".
- catalog contributor b5765240.
- catalog contributor b5765241.
- catalog contributor b5765242.
- catalog contributor b5765243.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xv, 155 p., 4, [1] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Confronting silence.".
- catalog identifier "091491331X".
- catalog identifier "0914913360 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Confronting silence.".
- catalog isPartOf "Fallen Leaf monographs on contemporary composers ; 1".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng jpn".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley, Calif. : Fallen Leaf Press,".
- catalog relation "Confronting silence.".
- catalog subject "780 20".
- catalog subject "ML60 .T258713 1995".
- catalog subject "Music History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Confronting silence : selected writings / Toru Takemitsu ; translated and edited by Yoshiko Kakudo and Glenn Glasow ; with a foreword by Seiji Ozawa.".
- catalog title "Literary works. Selections. English".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".