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- Title
Exception to Tōru Takemitsu's Oeuvre: Theater Piece Blue Aurora.
- Authors
Hrvatin, Klara
- Abstract
Influenced by John Cage's innovations, the use of graphic score and indeterminacy in instrumental pieces, Tōru Takemitsu also took approach to happenings or theater pieces. This article gives insight into the earliest among his theater pieces - Blue Aurora for Toshi Ichiyanagi (1964), premiered by John Cage. Its score is based on Takemitsu's three pages long abstract graphic score, with a drawing by a composer himself, and notes for performances, both of which have to be taken into account when performing the piece. By analysing the making process of the score itself as well as its key words E'en, See-SEE... senSe... esSeNSe..., and its different variations of its performance, the article reveals Takemitsu's approach to theater pieces.
- Subjects
CAGE, John, 1912-1992; AMERICAN composers; TAKEMITSU, Toru, 1930-1996; JAPANESE music; MUSIC history
- Publication
International Review of the Aesthetics & Sociology of Music, 2021, Vol 52, Issue 1, p133
- ISSN
0351-5796
- Publication type
Article