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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Peter Burt is Vice-Chairman of the Takemitsu Society in the United Kingdom and editor of the Takemitsu Society Newsletter.

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