Confronting Silence Selected Writings

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.

List of Plates

vi

Foreword

vii

Author's Preface

ix

Translators' Preface

xi

Early Writings

Nature and Music (From ``A Composer's Diary'')

3

(24)

On His Contemporaries

John Cage

27

(5)

Merce Cunningham

32

(2)

Jasper Johns

34

(2)

Conversation on Seeing

36

(10)

The Landscape of the Score

46

(5)

East and West

On Music

A Single Sound

51

(2)

The Distance from Ud to Biwa

53

(3)

Noh and Transience

56

(3)

Sound of East, Sound of West

59

(10)

On Art

Isamu Noguchi---Traveler

69

(2)

Redon Fantasy

71

(8)

On His Composing

A Personal Approach

79

(4)

Notes on November Steps

83

(8)

Mirror and Egg

91

(6)

Dream and Number

97

(32)

Nature

People and Trees

129

(3)

Water

132

(5)

Recent Writings

In Memoriam

Music is Life: John Cage, the Elegant Revolutionary

137

(2)

The Passing of Feldman, Nono, and Messiaen

139

(3)

Gardener of Time

142

(3)

Index

145

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