Home / Music / The oboe introduces the main theme in Takemitsu's 'A Flock Descends'Music linernotes album music toru-takemitsuThe oboe introduces the main theme in Takemitsu's 'A Flock Descends'In Takemitsu’s composition, the oboe first presents the main motif representing the “Flock.” Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesTakemitsu described A Flock Descends as a shifting panorama with a circular structureTakemitsu's 'Pentagonal Garden' builds its harmonies from five-note scales.A Marcel Duchamp photograph haunted Toru Takemitsu's dream of a pentagonal gardenToru Takemitsu composed A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden in 1977Alice Coltrane's Journey in Satchidananda carries John's spiritual torch — and makes it her ownExploreBilly Joel's 52nd Street was one of the first compact discs ever releasedArt Blakey ran the Jazz Messengers as a proving ground for jazz greatsClare Torry improvised "The Great Gig in the Sky" in a single sessionColtrane's unaccompanied opening on "Lush Life" previews his sheets of soundCymande's recordings became hip-hop sample gold for De La Soul and the FugeesPrevious The piano on Sakamoto's 'Zure' survived a tsunamiNext The Master Musicians of Jajouka keep a centuries-old Sufi tradition alive