Music of Japan today / edited by E. Michael Richards and Kazuko Tanosaki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Richards, E. Michael (Edwin Michael), 1954- editor.

Tanosaki, Kazuko, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Japan--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2008]

Summary:

Music of Japan Today examines cross-cultural confluences in contemporary Japanese art-music through multiple approaches from twenty international composers, performers, and scholars. Like the format of the MOJT symposia (1992-2007) held in the United States, the book is in two parts. In Part I, three award-winning Japanese composers discuss the construction of their compositional techniques and aesthetic orientations. Part II contains nineteen essays by scholars and creative musicians, arranged in a general chronological frame. The first section discusses connections of the music and ideas of Japanese composers during the time surrounding the Second World War to Japan's politics; section two presents recent perspectives on the music and legacy of Japan's most internationally renowned composer, Toru Takemitsu (1930-96). Section three investigates innovative, cross-cultural uses of Japanese and Western instruments (grouped by common instrumental families - voice, flutes, strings), shaped by historical traditions, physical design, and acoustic characteristics and constraints. Section four examines computer music by mid-career composers, and the final section looks at four current Japanese societies, within and "off-shore" Japan, and their music: spirituality and wind band music in Japan, avant-garde sound artists in Tokyo, Japanese composers in the UK, and the role of cell phone ringtones in the Japanese music market.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Composer Lectures and Discussions

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Part II: Essays on Contemporary Japanese Music

Section One

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Section Two

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Section Three

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Flutes

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Strings and Piano

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Section Four

Chapter Nineteen

Section Five

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Appendix A

Discography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-6488-6

OCLC:

1239984189