The Music of Toru Takemitsu

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Notes on conventions
• Introduction
• 1. Pre-history: how Western music came to Japan
• 2. Music and 'pre-music': Takemitsu's early years
• 3. Experimental workshop: the years of Jikken Kobo
• 4. The Requiem and its reception
• 5. Projections onto a Western mirror
• 6. 'Cage shock' and after
• 7. Projections onto an Eastern mirror
• 8. Modernist apogee: the early 1970s
• 9. Descent into the pentagonal garden
• 10. Towards the sea of tonality: the works of the 1980s
• 11. Beyond the far calls: the final years
• 12. Swimming in the ocean that has no West or East
• Notes
• List of Takemitsu's work
• Bibliography
• Index.