Book Reviews Review: “17 Perspectives on Music History” by Wakio Tamura and Fumio Narumi
(Originally posted on April 10, 2002)This book can be described as an ambitious attempt to re-ex...
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Book Reviews Review: ‘Listening Out Loud: Becoming a Composer’ by Elizabeth Swados
(Original posted on April 9, 2002)This is a book that can be called an anthem for aspiring compo...
Book Reviews Review: “Orchestral Technique” by Gordon Jacob
(Original posted on January 23, 2009)It is astonishing that the essence of orchestration is cont...
Book Reviews Review: “Orchestration” by Walter Piston
(Originally posted on April 9, 2002)Among the orchestration books currently available, this is t...
Book Reviews Review: “The Wonder of Music” by Sadao Bekku
(Original posted on April 9, 2002)"I am the type of person who cannot help but think not only ab...
Book Reviews Review: “Bartók’s Compositional Technique” by Ernő Lendvai
(Original posted on April 9, 2002)This is a research book that analyzes the characteristics of B...
Book Reviews Review: “Blue Note and Tonality” by Motohiko Hamase
(Original posted on April 9, 2002)This is a rare book that could be described as a "stoic and co...
Book Reviews Review: “The Thematic Process in Music” by Rudolph Réti
(Originally posted on April 9, 2002)As its Japanese subtitle, "The Theme and Construction of Cla...
Essays Architecture is Frozen Music (The Structure of Music) – Reflections on ‘The Wonders of Music’
(Originally posted on April 8, 2002)It seems that music has often been discussed in close compar...
Book Reviews Review: ‘A History of Western Music: The Twilight of “Classicism”‘ by Akeo Okada
(Original posted on November 28, 2008)This is a wonderfully ambitious work. Among music history ...