Britten and the Far East: Asian Influences in the Music of Benjamin Britten

Contents

• List of illustrations viii List of musical examples on compact disc x
• Acknowledgements xi
• Glossary of Indonesian and Japanese terms xiii 1 Making Tonic and Dominant Seem like Ghosts 1 2 Britten and Colin McPhee 23 3 Bali 50 4 The Prince of the Pagodas 90 5 Japan 112 6 From No to Church Parable: the Evolution of Curlew River, 1956-64 130 I The
• Bibliography 259
• Index 272