Britten and the Far East – Asian Influences in the Music of Benjamin Britten: 4 (Aldeburgh Studies in Music)

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Investigation into the influence of Eastern music on Britten’s composition. Benjamin Britten’s interest in the musical traditions of the Far East had a far-reaching influence on his compositional style; this book is the first to investigate the highly original cross-cultural synthesis he was able to achieve through the use of material borrowed from Balinese, Japanese and Indian music. Britten’s visit to Indonesia and Japan in 1955-6 is reconstructed from archival sources, and shown to have had a profound impact on his subsequent work: the techniques of Balinese gamelan music were used in the ballet The Prince of the Pagodas (1957), and then became an essential feature of Britten’s compositional style, at their most potent in Death in Venice(1973). The No drama and Gagaku court music of Japan were the inspiration for the trilogy of church parables Britten composed in the 1960s. The precise nature of these influences is discussed; Britten’s sporadic borrowings from Indian music are also fully analysed. There is a survey of critical responses to Britten’s cross-cultural experiments. Dr MERVYN COOKE lectures in music at the University of Nottingham.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Boydell Press (25 June 1998); CBS Publishers & Distributors Pvt. Ltd. -PH: 011-49344934
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0851158307
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0851158303
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 444 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.88 x 1.91 x 24.13 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India
Importer ‏ : ‎ CBS PUBLISHERS & DISTRIBUTORS PVT.LTD
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Generic Name ‏ : ‎ Medical Book