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Benjamin Brittens strong interest in the musical traditions of the Far East had a far-reaching influence on his compositional style; this book explores the highly original cross-cultural synthesis he was able to achieve through the use of material borrowed from Balinese, Japanese and Indian sources. Brittens 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 gamelin music were used in the ballet The Prince of the Pagodas (1957), and then became an essential feature of Brittens compositional style, at their most potent in Death in Venice (1973); and the No rama 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: Brittens sporadic borrowings fromIndian music are also fully analyzed. There is a survey of critical response to Brittens cross-cultural experiments.

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title	:	Britten and the Far East : Asian Influences in the Music of Benjamin Britten Aldeburgh Studies in Music, 0969-3548 ; V. 4
author	:	Cooke, Mervyn.
publisher	:	Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
isbn10 \| asin	:	0851155790
print isbn13	:	9780851155791
ebook isbn13	:	9780585213873
language	:	English
subject	Britten, Benjamin,--1913-1976--Criticism and interpretation, Britten, Benjamin,--1913-1976--Knowledge--Orient, Music--England--Oriental influences.
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	ML410.B853C74 1998eb
ddc	:	780/.92
subject	:	Britten, Benjamin,--1913-1976--Criticism and interpretation, Britten, Benjamin,--1913-1976--Knowledge--Orient, Music--England--Oriental influences.

Page i

Aldeburgh Studies in Music

General Editor: Paul Banks

Britten and the Far East:

Volume 4

Page ii

Tea ceremony in Japan, 14 February 1956

Page iii

Britten and the Far East:

Asian Influences In The Music Of Benjamin Britten

Mervyn Cooke

Page iv

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Mervyn Cooke 1998

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First published 1998 by The Boydell Press, Woodbridge
in conjunction with
The Britten-Pears Library, Aldeburgh

ISBN 0 85115 579 0

Aldeburgh Studies in Music
ISSN 0969-3548

The Boydell Press is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd
PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK
and of Boydell & Brewer Inc.
PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604-4126, USA

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cooke, Mervyn.
Britten and the Far East: Asian influences in the music of
Benjamin Britten / Mervyn Cooke.
p. cm. - (Aldeburgh studies in music, ISSN 0969-3548; v. 4)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ****) and index.
ISBN 0-85115-579-0 (alk. paper)
1. Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 - Criticism and interpretation.
2. Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 - Knowledge - Orient. 3. Music
England - Oriental influences. I. Title. II. Series.
ML410.B853C74 1998
780'.92-dc21 97-32608

This publication is printed on acid-free paper

Printed in Great Britain by
St Edmundsbury Press Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Page v

For Donald Mitchell

Page vii

Contents

List of illustrations

viii

List of musical examples on compact disc

Acknowledgements

Glossary of Indonesian and Japanese terms

xiii

1
Making Tonic and Dominant Seem like Ghosts

2
Britten and Colin McPhee

3
Bali

4
The Prince of the Pagodas

5
Japan

112

6
From No* to Church Parable: the Evolution of Curlew River, 1956-64

130

I The No Theatre

130

II Sumidagawa and the Curlew River libretto

137

III Curlew River and the dramatic style of No

153

IV Curlew River and European mediaeval drama

160

V The musical style of Curlew River: No and Gagaku

165

7
The Later Church Parables

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