The Music of Toru Takemitsu by Peter Burt, Arnold Whittall (Editor)

Acknowledgements; Notes on conventions; Introduction;

1. Pre-history: how Western music came to Japan;
2. Music and 'pre-music': Takemitsu's early years;
3. Experimental workshop: the years of Jikken Kobo;
4. The Requiem and its reception;
5. Projections onto a Western mirror;
6. 'Cage shock' and after;
7. Projections onto an Eastern mirror;
8. Modernist apogee: the early 1970s;
9. Descent into the pentagonal garden;
10. Towards the sea of tonality: the works of the 1980s;
11. Beyond the far calls: the final years;
12. Swimming in the ocean that has no West or East; Notes; List of Takemitsu's work; Bibliography; Index.