nd [circa Apr 1955-Jul 1956]
Transcriptions of Balinese music taken from gramophone recordings. On page 1r are sketches from the Pelitatan recordings of 'Kapi radja' and 'Tamililingan' which were used in the ballet and on page 1v are a further two songs which were not. The chords at the foot of page 1r do not relate to the gamelan-inspired music but may instead be an early harmonic plan for the 'Pas de deux'. See 'Britten and the Far East' by Mervyn Cooke (Boydell) for a discussion of the source material for Britten's Balinese sketches.
1 page [1r-1v]
Pencil; 27 x 36.5 cm.
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