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Toru Takemitsu. Presented by Ritsue Nagadome. Introduction to Music 1010-045 . Biography (Part 1). Occupation : Composer Birthday: October 8, 1930 Death: February 20, 1996 Birthplace: Tokyo, JAPAN. Biography (Part 2). Childhood: Spend his childhood in Manchuria, Dalian - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Toru TakemitsuPresented by
Ritsue Nagadome
Introduction to Music 1010-045
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Biography (Part 1)• Occupation:
Composer• Birthday:
October 8, 1930• Death:
February 20, 1996• Birthplace:
Tokyo, JAPAN
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Biography (Part 2)
• Childhood:Spend his childhood in Manchuria, Dalian Came back to Japan alone and stayed with his
uncle for 7 years to attend elementary school
• Adolescent:While he was attending a private secondary
school he worked for the army supply depot in Saitama
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Encounter with the usic• Chanson Music:
Lucienne Boyer “Tell Me about Love” • Jazz Music:
Radio broadcasts at the U.S. military campin Yokohama
• Influence:French composer
Claude DebussyOlivier Messiaen
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FriendshipExperimental Workshop
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Takemitsu’s Creation• “Lento in Due
Movimenti” (1950)• "Crazy Fruit" (1956)• "Journey Galactic
Railroad“ (1953)
• "Summer and Smoke“ (1954)
• “Wild woman“ (1955)
• Commercials for Morinaga chocolate (1954)
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Takemitsu’s Creation“ REQUIEM FOR STRINGS ”
(1957)
Source: YouTube
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Takemitsu’s Creation
Source: YouTube
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Takemitsu’s Creation
“ ECLIPSE ”
Source: YouTube
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Takemitsu’s Creation“ NOVEMBER STEPS ”
(1967)
Source: YouTube
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Takemitsu’s Creation
•“ Crossing “•“ Four Seasons “•“ Years of Ear “
1970•“ Winter “ Sapporo Olympics 1971
•“ Music of Today “•“ Katoren “
Won the 24th Otaka Award
1973
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Takemitsu’s Work
1968,69 •“ Canberra Spring Festival” theme
1975 •Visiting Professor at Yale University
1976-77 •“ New Music Concert ”
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Takemitsu’s Passion
the Gulf War (1991)
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Pupils
Takemitsu
Shinichiro Ikebe
Yoshio Yamura Mori
Kurando
Shinichiro IkebeYoshio Yamura
Mori Kurando
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Quotation“The art music of the West has developed throughout its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.”
~Toru Takemitsu~
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Composition History“To the Edge of Dream,
for guitar and orchestra” (1983)Composer: Toru Takemitsu
• Was originally performed by Julian Bream (guitar) and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in 1985
• CD version was released on January 28, 1992 by John Williams (guitar) and the London Sinfonietta conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Listening Guide• 0:00 It started off with a dreamy harmonic
combination sound of guitar and the orchestra.
• 0:09 Beginning of the melody of a strong flute sound.
• 0:20 The sound of the melody slowly start to build with the sound of the flute and the violent working in harmony together.
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Listening Guide• 0:26 Suddenly the volume increases than
goes back right away to a soulful melody.• 0:35 Orchestra joins in with a short but sweet
melody.• 0:44 The orchestra slowly fades away in to the
back ground as a slow but sweet sound of guitar solo starts to unfold.
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Listening Guide• 1:30 The orchestra slowly join s back in with
the guitar with a melody of beautiful soft sound of the harp, flute, oboe, and string instruments.
• 1:39 The sound of the guitar has this Spanish sound yet I hear the sound also this Japanese sound coming from his playing.
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Listening Guide• 1:44 The orchestra blends in together with
guitar to produce a high pitch but beautiful sound.
• 2:20 The guitar slowly fades in the back as orchestra rebounds with soft but powerful Crescendo beautiful strokes on strings instruments with soft percussion sounds.
• 3:00 Smooth powerful orchestra accompany by strong and powerful sound from guitar.
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Listening Guide• 3:30 The guitar solo back up by a strong
orchestra with very of sharp sounds.• 4:00 The connecting sounds of the string
instrument with the soft and dreamy sound of guitar, playing in the back ground.
• 4:18 Guitar solo gives me the feeling of drifting away into darkness.
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Listening Guide• 4:30 The orchestra joint in with a very strong
and powerful sound then slowly fade away.• 5:55 A mix of string instruments and guitar
with the mellow sound of a harp.• 6:30 The end of a beautiful guitar solo follow
by orchestra with string instruments.
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Listening Guide• 6:45 The sound of a coronet with flute, oboe
with the orchestra blending in.• 7:06 I hear the sound of the oboe and flute
flowing so softly together but with powerful feeling come over me.
• 7:57 String instruments combine with harp and flute send a beautiful message of harmonic. The sound of the harmonic is so simpler to the guitar.
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Listening Guide• 8:15 One or two stroke on the guitar with the
orchestra play sweet melodies in the back ground.
• 9:00 The orchestra was sweet and mellow with the sounds of the flute and woodwind instruments playing in harmony. I think that there is the sound of a piano playing in the back ground with a light touch on a drum.
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Listening Guide• 9:20 A beautiful sound of a harp solo joins with
guitar and orchestra make beautiful commendation that has a dreamiest sound. It makes you feel like you are on the edge of something.
• 9:33 It starts 4 seconds pausing moment with no music.
• 9:39 Music started again with combination of guitar and flute. Because the music is been playing very slow I can hear each guitar note.
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Listening Guide• 9:57 Guitar started playing a little faster along
with the string instruments.• 10:03 Again, it changed to slow tempo of
guitar solo, and soft sound of guitar slowly building toward the end of the piece.
• 11:32 The orchestra performs with a momentary but magnificent ending with combination of guitar and the orchestra.
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Listening Guide• 11:50 Continually very low sound with a
mysterious gong sound. The high sound of guitar contracted with a very dark background sound.
• 12:00 In the end, the music started slowly drift away with beautiful sound of the orchestra.
• 12:25 The End
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Bibliography“Confronting Silence” (1995)
P. Burt,” The Music of Toru Takemitsu” (2001)
C. Zwerin, “Music for the Movies: Toru Takemitsu
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REFERENCE• Toru Takemitsu. (2010). Columbia Electronic
Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, 1. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.
• Toru Takemitsu. (2011). Schott Music. Retrieved from http://www.schott-music.com.
• Toru Takemitsu. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.answers.com.
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REFERENCE• To the Edge of Dream. (2011) MG Blog.
Retrieved from http://maurograziani.org.• Toru Takemitsu. (2011). Retrieved from
http://www.encyclopedia.com.• Toru Takemitsu Quotes. (2001-2011).
Retrieved from http://www.brainyquote.com• All videos are retrieved from YouTube.