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.
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