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Title: Britten and the Far East
Condition: New
Subtitle: Asian Influences in the Music of Benjamin Britten
ISBN-10: 0851158307
EAN: 9780851158303
ISBN: 9780851158303
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 06/25/1998
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 156mm
Author: Mervyn Cooke
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Book Series: Aldeburgh Studies in Music
Release Year: 1998

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