Takemitsu Toru Late The Sound Of The Band Works

Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) is a representative contemporary Japanese composer who is well-known and influential in the music world. Among his over 300 music works, especially the orchestra pieces in the later period, transcendence and eternity of arts are the main themes, expressing his understanding and meditations of the nature, world and life, with his unique thought over the current culture issues.The article is composed of five chapters, in addition to the foreword and epilogue. The foreword outlines the foundation and value of the article, and briefly introduces Toru Takemitsu and his later period's works. I also simply state the research approaches in this part.In Chapter one, I present his harmonic thought of his orchestra works in his later period, which is the essence of his acoustics thought. There are four sections altogether: the symphonic lognitudinal dimension, the symphonic transverse dimension, the layer structure and melody thought of the harmonics. In Chapter two, I study the texture thought of his later period orchestra works, including the levity of the texture, the consolidation of texture, the form of the texture and the transverse movement among the texture. This chapter is closely connected with and leads readers to chapter three. The focus of chapter three is the timbre thought of his later period orchestra works, which is the main body of the topic. It consists of eight sections: the composition of orchestra, the technique of the timbre reiterative, the grounding of the acoustics, the montage technique of the timbre, the transference of the timbre, the application of multiple aspirate methods to the timbre, the timbre management technique of peak, timbre rhythm and its whole distribution, and the timbre structure. Chapter four focuses on the structure, the rhythm and speed in his later period orchestra. As for Chapter five, readers can learn the aesthetics of orchestra's acoustics thought in his later period, which is the exaltation of the dissertation. In this chapter I research the forms and sources of his aesthetics, and the artistic beauty in the orchestra.The epilogue is on the research's realistic significance for our music composition at present, with a result that our creation should regress to the native and the life consciousness.