Description: Further DetailsTitle: Britten and the Far EastCondition: NewSubtitle: Asian Influences in the Music of Benjamin BrittenISBN-10: 0851158307EAN: 9780851158303ISBN: 9780851158303Publisher: The Boydell PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/25/1998Description: 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: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Mervyn CookeGenre: Music Dance & TheatreBook Series: Aldeburgh Studies in MusicItem Weight: 450gRelease Year: 1998 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Britten and the Far East
Title: Britten and the Far East
Subtitle: Asian Influences in the Music of Benjamin Britten
ISBN-10: 0851158307
EAN: 9780851158303
ISBN: 9780851158303
Release Date: 06/25/1998
Release Year: 1998
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Number of Pages: 299 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Britten and the Far East : Asian Influences in the Music of Benjamin Britten
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Publication Year: 1998
Subject: History & Criticism, General, Ethnic
Item Height: 0.6 in
Features: Reprint
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.9 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Music, Literary Criticism
Author: Mervyn Cooke
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Issn Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
