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Britten and the Far East: Asian Influences in the Music of Benjamin Britten by Mervyn Cooke (Paperback, 2001)

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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.