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(To-roo Ta-ke-mit-soo) 1930–96 Japanese composer Born in Tokyo, Takemitsu encountered the music of Debussy and Messiaen shortly after World War II. His Requiem for Strings (1957), bearing the latter’s stylistic imprint, was praised by Stravinsky. In 1964 he met Cage, who not only stimulated his experiments with graphic scores but also encouraged him to reassess his stance towards ...

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instruments such as marimbas, tuned gongs, tom-toms and bubams have become increasingly common in orchestral music. Non-western melodic instruments occasionally appear, too, with the composers Toru Takemitsu (1930–96) and Tan Dun (b. 1957), for instance, writing for traditional Japanese and Chinese instruments in their scores. Music technology has also found its way into the orchestra, ...

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, created by Boehm around 1854, has been particularly attractive to twentieth-century composers. Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) used it to great effect in the The Rite of Spring and Toru Takemitsu (1930–96) was a particular fan. Flageolet Another member of the flute family, the flageolet is an end-blown flute that encompasses a wide range of instruments. It is most similar ...

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of orchestral instruments from 1910, but it has become increasingly popular with composers since the Second World War, especially in the music of Olivier Messiaen (1908–92) and Toru Takemitsu (1930–96). It has a warm and resonant sound, distinct from the drier and more brittle xylophone. Although a relatively new instrument to western classical music, the work of ...

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required playing with two hammers in each hand. It is also to be heard in Richard Rodney Bennett’s (1936–2012) first symphony, and in music by Japanese composers such as Takemitsu, Toshiro Mayuzumi (1929–97) and Keiko Abe (b. 1937). Styles & Forms | Contemporary | Classical Instruments | Vibraphone | Contemporary | Classical ...

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exception of the purely electronic thirteenth ‘hour’, Cosmic Pulses) – 21 were completed. Recommended Recording: Stimmung, Singcircle (dir) Gregory Rose (Hyperion) Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Toru Takemitsu | Contemporary | Classical ...

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province during the Cultural Revolution, encountering Western classical music only on entering the Beijing Central Conservatory at 19. Encouraged there by visiting teachers such as Goehr, Henze and Takemitsu, he moved to New York in 1986 to continue his studies at Columbia University. His early works integrated elements of Western atonality with instruments and ritual elements of Chinese ...