Toru Takemitsu A Bio-Bibliography

Subjects:

• The Arts » Music (General)
• The Arts » Classical Music
• Multicultural Studies » Asian Studies

Reviews:

• [s]erves as a useful reference book for future Takemitsu scholars and performers....[S]iddons's meticulous work os an important achievement as the first volume concerning a Japanese composer in Greenwood's reliable Bio-Bibliographies in Music series....[a]re indispensable guides for future explorers of Toru Takemitsu.
  —Journal of Japanese Studies 2003
• The Takemitsu bio-bibliography of James Siddons is a marvelously thorough and wonderfully organized work. In addition to its cogent and elegantly written biography, his imaginative and highly useful general categorizations of works according to genre, instrumentation, and theme complement beautifully the detailed performance, critical, and programmatic information given for almost every concert work. Particularly impressive are the ways in which Siddons clarifies relationships between works (self-borrowing, for example) and provides, where they exist, Japanese titles in Japanese characters. In addition to the book's comprehensive discography and multilingual bibliography, the section on Takemitsu's music for film and television provides a wonderful springboard for future Takemitsu research. This book is a must for any music library; all students of either twentieth-century Japan or Japanese music are deeply indebted to the author.
  —Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association September, 2002

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Maegaki (Foreword in Japanese)
• Biography
• Works and Performances
• List of Film Scores
• Discography
• Bibliography
• Index
• Profile of the Author