List of compositions by Tōru Takemitsu

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This is a partial list of the compositions of Tōru Takemitsu.

Contents 1 Orchestral 2 Film music 3 Chamber 4 Vocal and Chorus 5 Electronic/Tape music 6 Piano 7 Flute music 8 Guitar music 9 Percussion music 10 Other Instrumental 11 External links

[edit] Orchestral

Requiem (弦楽のためのレクイエム), for strings (1957) Solitude Sonore (ソリチュード・ソノール) (1958) Tableau Noir (黒い絵画) (1958) Scene (シーン) (1959) Music of Trees (樹の曲) (1961) Coral Island (環礁) (1962) Colona II (コロナII), for strings (1962) Textures (テクスチュアズ) (1964) The Dorian Horizon (地平線のドーリア) (1964) Arc part.1, part.2 (弧) (part.1 1963-1976, part.2 1964-1976) Green (グリーン) (1967) November Steps (ノヴェンバー・ステップス) (1967) Asterism (アステリズム) (1968) Crossing (クロッシング) (1969) Eucalypts I (ユーカリプス I) (1970) Cassiopeia (カシオペア) (1971) Winter (冬) (1971) Autumn (秋) (1973) Gitimalya - Bouquet of Songs - (ジティマルヤ) (1974) In an Autumn Garden (秋庭歌一具) (1973, 1979), written for a gagaku (traditional Japanese court music) orchestra Quatrain (カトレーン) (1975) Marginalia (マージナリア) (1976) A Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden (鳥は星型の庭に降りる) (1977) Far calls. coming, far! (遠い呼び声の彼方へ！) (1980) A Way a Lone II (ア・ウェイ・ア・ローン II) (1981) Toward the Sea II (海へ II) (1981) Dreamtime (夢の時) (1981) Rain coming (雨ぞふる) (1982) Star-Isle (星・島) (1982) To the Edge of Dream (夢の縁へ) (1983)

Vers, l'arc-en-ciel, Palma (虹へ向かって、パルマ) (1984) Orion and Pleiades (オリオンとプレアデス) (1984) Riverrun (リヴァラン) (1984) Dream/Window (夢窓) (1985) Gémeaux (ジェモー) (1971-1986) I hear the Water dreaming (ウォーター・ドリーミング) (1987) Nostalghia - In Memory of Andrej Tarkovskij - (ノスタルジア -アンドレイ・タルコフスキーの追憶に-) (1987) Twill by Twilight - In Memory of Morton Feldman - (トゥウィル・バイ・トワイライト -モートン・フェルドマンの追憶に-) (1988) Tree Line (トゥリー・ライン) (1988) A String around Autumn (ア・ストリング・アラウンド・オータム) (1989) Visions I.Mystére II.Les yeux clos (ヴィジョンズ　I．神秘　II．閉じた眼) (1990) My way of Life - In Memory of Michael Vyner - (マイ・ウェイ・オブ・ライフ　-マイケル・ヴァイナーの追憶に-) (1990) From me flows what you call Time (フロム・ミー・フロウズ・ワット・ユー・コール・タイム) (1990) Fantasma/Cantos (ファンタズマ/カントス) (1991) Quotation the Dream - Say Sea, take me - (夢の引用 - Say Sea, take me -) (1991) How slow the wind (ハウ・スロー・ザ・ウィンド) (1991) Ceremonial - An Autumn Ode - (セレモニアル - An Autumn Ode -) (1992) Family Tree - Musical Verses for Young People - (系図 -若い人たちのための音楽詩-) (1992) Archipelagos S. (群島S.) (1993) Fantasma/Cantos II (ファンタズマ/カントス II) (1994) Spirit Garden (精霊の庭) (1994) Spectral Canticle (スペクトラル・カンティクル) (1995) Three Film Scores "José Torres" "The Face of Another" "Black Rain" (三つの映画音楽　『ホゼー・トレス』『他人の顔』『黒い雨』) (1994, 1995)

[edit] Film music

Ginrin (銀輪) (1955) Crazed Fruit/Juvenile Passions (狂った果実) (1956) Red and Green/Midnight visitor (朱と緑) (1956) The Rainy season (つゆのあとさき) (1956) Cloudburst (土砂降り) (1957) The country boss (噛みつかれた顔役) (1958) José Torres (ホゼー・トレス) (1959) Waiting for Spring (春を待つ人々) (1959) Dangerous trip/Vagabond Lovers (危険旅行) (1959) Joking/Love Letters (いたづら) (1959) Dry Lake/Youth in Fury (乾いた湖) (1960) The Shrikes (もず) (1961) Bad Boys (不良少年) (1961) Atami Blues (熱海ブルース) (1962) Harakiri (切腹) (1962) Tears in the Lion's Mane (涙を、獅子のたてがみに) (1962) The Body (裸体) (1962) Twin Sisters in Kyoto (古都) (1963) Alone on the Pacific (太平洋ひとりぼっち) (1963)

She and He (彼女と彼) (1963) White and Black (白と黒) (1963) Woman in the Dunes, dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara (砂の女) (1964) Kwaidan, dir. Masaki Kobayashi (怪談) (1964) 21-year-old Father/Our Happiness Alone (二十一歳の父) (1964) Nippon Escape (日本脱出) (1964) The Female Body (女体) (1964) Last Judgement (最後の審判) (1965) Extraordinary Sasuke Sarutobi/Samurai Spy (異聞猿飛佐助) (1965) Double Suicide (心中天網島) (1969) Dodesukaden (どですかでん) (1970) The Ceremony (儀式) (1971) Empire of Passion, dir. Nagisa Oshima (愛の亡霊) (1978) Tokyo Trial/Tokyo Verdict (東京裁判) (1983) Ran, dir. Akira Kurosawa (乱)(1985) A Boy named HIROSHIMA (ヒロシマという名の少年) (1987) Black Rain, dir. Shohei Imamura (黒い雨) (1989) Rising Sun, dir. Philip Kaufman (ライジング・サン) (1993) Sharaku, dir. Masahiro Shinoda (写楽) (1995)

[edit] Chamber

• Distance de Fée (妖精の距離) (1951, 1989), for violin and piano
• Concerto de Chambre (室内協奏曲) (1955), for 13 instruments
• Le Son Calligraphié (ソン・カリグラフィ) (1958, 1960), for Strings
• Landscape (ランドスケープ) (1960), for strings quartet
• Ring (リング) (1961), for flute, guitar and lute
• Sacrifice (サクリファイス) (1962), for flute, lute and vibraphone
• Hika (悲歌) (1966), for violin and piano
• Eclipse (エクリプス<蝕>) (1966), for shakuhachi and biwa
• Stanza I (スタンザ I) (1969), for female voice, guitar, vibraphone, harpsichord, piano and harp
• Valeria (ヴァレリア) (1965, 1969), for violin, cello, guitar, piccolo and Hammond Organ
• Eucalypts II (ユーカリプスII) (1971), for oboe, flute and harp
• Distance (ディスタンス) (1972), for oboe and Sho ad lib.
• Garden Rain (ガーデン・レイン) (1974), for Brass Ensemble
• Bryce (ブライス) (1976), for flute, harp and percussion
• Waves (ウェイブス<波>) (1976), for clarinet, horn, trombone and bass drum
• Quatrain II (カトレーンII) (1977), for piano, clarinet, violin and cello
• Waterways (ウォーターウェイズ) (1978), for harp and vibraphone
• A Way A Lone (ア・ウェイ・ア・ローン) (1980), for Strings quartet
• Toward the Sea (海へ) (1981), for flute and guitar (another version for flute and harp)
• Rain Spell (雨の呪文) (1982), for flute, clarinet, harp, piano and vibraphone
• From far beyond Chrysanthemums and November Fog (十一月の霧と菊の彼方から) (1983), for violin and piano
• Rocking Mirror Daybreak (揺れる鏡の夜明け) (1983), for two violins
• Orion (オリオン) (1984), for cello and piano
• Entre-temps (アントゥル・タン) (1986), for oboe and strings quartet
• Signals from Heaven - Two Antiphonal Fanfares - (シグナルズ・フロム・ヘヴン - Two Antiphonal Fanfares -) (1987), for two horns, piccolo trumpet, four trumpets (also two cornets), four trombones and tuba
• Toward the Sea III (海へ III) (1988), for alto flute and harp
• And then I knew 'twas Wind (そして、それが風であることを知った) (1992), for flute, viola and harp
• Between tides (ビトゥイーン・タイズ) (1993), for violin, cello and piano
• A Bird came down the Walk (鳥が道に降りてきた) (1994), for viola and piano
• Le Fils des Étoiles - Prélude du 1er Acte 'La Vocation' - (星たちの息子 -第一幕への前奏曲『天職』-) (1975), for flute and harp
• Herbstlied (秋のうた) (1993), for clarinet and strings quartet

[edit] Vocal and Chorus

• Wind Horse (風の馬) (1961-1966)
• Songs for mixed chorus (混声合唱のための「うた」) (1979-92)
• Grass (芝生) (1982)
• Handmade Proverbs - Four Pop Songs - (手作り諺 -四つのポップ・ソング-) (1987)
• Sayonara (さよなら) (1954)
• In a Small Room (小さな部屋で) (1955)
• I just sing (うたうだけ) (1958)
• The Game of Love (恋のかくれんぼ) (1961)
• A Song of ○'s(circles) and △'s(triangles) (○と△の歌) (1961)
• Small Sky (小さな空) (1962)
• La Neige (雪) (1963)
• Unseen child (見えないこども) (1963)
• A Marvelous Kid (素晴らしい悪女) (1963)
• In the Month of March (三月のうた) (1965)
• All that the Man left behind when he died (死んだ男の残したものは) (1965)
• Waltz (ワルツ) (1966)
• The Encounter (めぐり逢い) (1968)
• Glowing Autumn (燃える秋) (1978)
• Wings (翼) (1982)
• To the Island (島へ) (1983)
• Will tomorrow, I wonder, be cloudy or clear? (明日ハ晴レカナ、曇リカナ) (1985)
• All Alone (ぽつねん) (1995)
• Yesterday's spot (昨日のしみ) (1995)
• MI・YO・TA (MI・YO・TA) (1950s/1996)

[edit] Electronic/Tape music

• Static Relief, magnetic tape (1955)
• Vocalism A・I (ヴォーカリズムA・I), magnetic tape (1956)
• ki・sora・tori (木・空・鳥), tape (1956)
• Yūridisu [Eurydice] (1956)
• Sky, Horse and Death (空、馬、そして死) (1958)
• Clap Vocalism (1956–7)
• Dialogue (1957)
• Quiet Design (1960)
• Mizu no kyoku [Water Music] (水の曲) (1960)
• Kwaidan (1964)
• Natsukashino San Francisco [Longed-for San Francisco] (1964)
• Cross Talk (2 bandoneon and tape) (1968)
• Years of Ears [What is Music?] (1970)
• Toward (トゥワード) (1971)
• Wavelength (ウェイブレングス) (1984)
• Mineaporisu no niwa [A Minneapolis Garden] (ミネアポリスの庭) (1986)
• Seijaku no umi [The Sea is Still] (静寂の海) (1986)

[edit] Piano

• Romance (ロマンス) (1949)
• Lento in due movimenti (二つのレント) (1950)
• Uninterrupted Rests (遮られない休息) (1952, 1959)
• Piano Distance (ピアノ・ディスタンス) (1961)
• Corona (コロナ) (London Version) (1962)
• For Away (フォー・アウェイ) (1973)
• Piano pieces for children (こどものためのピアノ小品) (1978)
• Les Yeux Clos (閉じた眼) (1979)
• Rain Tree Sketch (雨の樹素描) (1982)
• Les Yeux Clos II (閉じた眼 II) (1988)
• Litany - In Memory of Michael Vyner - (リタニ -マイケル・ヴァイナーの追憶に-) (1989)
• Rain Tree Sketch II (雨の樹素描 II) (1992)
• Golden Slummbers (ゴールデン・スランバーズ) (1992)

[edit] Flute music

• Masque (マスク) (1959, 1960)
• Voice (声) (1971)
• Itinerant - In Memory of Isamu Noguchi - (巡り -イサム・ノグチの追憶に-) (1989)
• Air (エア) (1995)

[edit] Guitar music

• Folios (フォリオス) (1974)
• 12 Songs for Guitar (ギターのための12のうた) (1974, 1977)
• The Last Waltz (ラスト・ワルツ) (1983)
• A Boy Named HIROSHIMA (ヒロシマという名の少年) (1987)
• All in Twilight - Four pieces for guitar - (オール・イン・トワイライト -ギターのための四つの小品-) (1987)
• Bad Boy (不良少年) (1961, 1992)
• A Pieces for guitar - For the 60th birthday of Sylvano Bussotti - (ギターのための小品 -シルヴァーノ・ブソッティの60歳の誕生日に-) (1991)
• Equinox (エキノクス) (1993)
• In the Woods - Three pieces for guitar - (森の中で -ギターのための三つの小品-) (1995)

[edit] Percussion music

• Seasons (四季) (1970)
• Munari by Munari (ムナーリ・バイ・ムナーリ) (1967-1971)
• Rain Tree (雨の樹) (1981)
• Cross Hatch (クロス・ハッチ) (1982)

[edit] Other Instrumental

• Stanza II (スタンザII) (1971), for harp and tape
• Cross Talk (クロス・トーク) (1968), for Bandoneon and tape
• Voyage (旅) (1973), for 3 biwa
• Rain Dreaming (夢見る雨) (1986), for harpsichord
• Paths - In Memoriam of Witold Lutosławski (径 -ヴィトルド・ルトスワフスキの追憶に-) (1994), for trumpet

[edit] External links

• Toru Takemitsu: Complete Works
• Complete Takemitsu Edition (Japanese)