Research Catalog

Title

Resonating culture : sounds of Japan in the music of Maki Ishii, Karen Tanaka, and Toshio Hosokawa / Airi Yoshioka.

Author

Yoshioka, Airi.

Publication

2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ishigure, Masayo.
• Novacek, John
• Ishii, Maki.
• Tanaka, Karen, 1961-
• Hosokawa, Toshio.

Description

xiii, 198 leaves : music; 28 cm. +

Alternative Title

Sounds of Japan in the music of Maki Ishii, Karen Tanaka, and Toshio Hosokawa

Subjects

• Ishii, Maki > Criticism and interpretation
• Tanaka, Karen, 1961- > Criticism and interpretation
• Music > Japan > Western influences
• Composers > Japan
• Music > Japan > History and criticism
• Hosokawa, Toshio > Criticism and interpretation

Note

• Typescript and sound disc.
• Title of sound disc: Airi Yoshioka's performances of the works discussed in Resonating culture : sounds of Japan in the music of Maki Ishii, Karen Tanaka, and Toshio Hosokawa.
• Includes abstract and vita.

Thesis (note)

• Thesis (D.M.A.)--Juilliard School, 2002.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (leaves 193-196).

Contents

• [Typescript] 1. Genesis of western music in Japan. History and background ; Pioneers ; Bunraku for solo cello by Toshiro Mayuzumi ; Ma ; Takemitsu and November steps -- 2. Maki Ishii's quest for a cultural sound through the use of traditional instruments. Biography ; Afro-concerto for percussion and orchestra, op. 50 ; Mono-prism for Japanese drums and orchestra, op. 29 ; Kyo-o music for multi-piano, orchestra and electronic sounds, op. 13 ; The koto ; The koto and violin in A time of afterglow, op. 52 ; Concluding thoughts ; Interview with Ishii -- 3. Karen Tanaka and contemporary Japanese sensibility. Biography ; Initium for orchestra and live electronics ; Wave mechanics for 20 instruments ; Wave mechanics II for violin and tape ; Concluding thoughts ; Interview with Tanaka -- 4. Creating a world beyond in Toshio Hosokawa's music. Biography ; Singing trees ; Tenebrae for children's chorus and Super flumina Babylonis for soprano, alto and chamber orchestra ; Hiroshima requiem for 3 reciters, vocal soloist, mixed chorus, children's chorus, tape and orchestra ; Ferne-Landschaft I, II, and III for orchestra ; Vertical time study III for violin and piano ; Concluding thoughts ; Interview with Hosokawa -- 5. Current prospects of Japanese music.
• [Sound disc] A time of afterglow : for violin and koto, op. 52 / M. Ishii (with Masayo Ishigure, koto) ; Wave mechanics II : for violin and tape / K. Tanaka ; Vertical time study III : for violin and piano / T. Hosokawa (with John Novacek, piano).

Call Number

JMF 07-1050

OCLC

49964199

Author

Yoshioka, Airi.

Title

Resonating culture : sounds of Japan in the music of Maki Ishii, Karen Tanaka, and Toshio Hosokawa / Airi Yoshioka.

Imprint

2002.

Thesis

Thesis (D.M.A.)--Juilliard School, 2002.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 193-196).

Local Note

NYPL copy lacks CD.

Added Author

Ishigure, Masayo. Instrumentalist

Novacek, John, instrumentalist.

Ishii, Maki. Time of afterglow.

Tanaka, Karen, 1961- Wave mechanics, no. 2.

Hosokawa, Toshio. Vertical time study, no. 3.

Research Call Number

JMF 07-1050