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Maurice Ravel, as composer and scenario writer, collaborated with some of the greatest ballet directors, choreographers, designers and dancers of his time, including Diaghilev, Ida Rubinstein, Benois and Nijinsky. In this book, the first study dedicated to Ravel's ballets, Deborah Mawer explores these relationships and argues that ballet music should not be regarded in isolation. Indeed, Ravel's views on ballet and other stage works privilege a synthesized aesthetic. The first chapter establishes a historical and critical context for Ravel's scores, engaging en route with multimedia theory. Six main ballets from "Daphnis et Chloe" through to "Bolero" are considered holistically alongside themes such as childhood fantasy, waltzing and neoclassicism. Each work is examined in terms of its evolution, premiere, critical reception and selected reinterpretation through to the present; new findings result from primary-source research, undertaken especially in Paris. The final chapter discusses the reasons for Ravel's collaborations and the strengths and weaknesses of his interpersonal relations. Mawer emphasizes the importance of the performative dimension in realizing Ravel's achievement, and proposes that the composer's large-scale oeuvre can, in a sense, be viewed as a balletic undertaking. In so doing, this book adds significantly to current research interest in artistic production and interplay in early twentieth-century Paris.
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Deborah Mawer is Senior Lecturer in Music at Lancaster University, UK.
Maurice Ravel, as composer and scenario writer, collaborated with some of the greatest ballet directors, choreographers, designers and dancers of his time, including Diaghilev, Ida Rubinstein, Benois and Nijinsky. In this book, the first study dedicated to Ravel's ballets, Deborah Mawer explores these relationships and argues that ballet music should not be regarded in isolation. Indeed, Ravel's views on ballet and other stage works privilege a synthesized aesthetic. The first chapter establishes a historical and critical context for Ravel's scores, engaging en route with multimedia theory. Six main ballets from "Daphnis et Chloe" through to "Bolero" are considered holistically alongside themes such as childhood fantasy, waltzing and neoclassicism. Each work is examined in terms of its evolution, premiere, critical reception and selected reinterpretation through to the present; new findings result from primary-source research, undertaken especially in Paris. The final chapter discusses the reasons for Ravel's collaborations and the strengths and weaknesses of his interpersonal relations. Mawer emphasizes the importance of the performative dimension in realizing Ravel's achievement, and proposes that the composer's large-scale oeuvre can, in a sense, be viewed as a balletic undertaking. In so doing, this book adds significantly to current research interest in artistic production and interplay in early twentieth-century Paris.
About the Author
Deborah Mawer is Senior Lecturer in Music at Lancaster University, UK.
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esquisse autobiographique, son oeuvre dramatique, danse générale, orchestral premiere, balletic elements, langage des fleurs, ballet projects, les sortilèges, ballet premiere, dance research, triple metre, sonic image, ballet score, piano version, musical imagery, piano score, ballet music, cor anglais Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maurice Ravel, New York, Ballets Russes, Ida Rubinstein, Moving Music, George Balanchine, Théâtre des Arts, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Ravel Reader, Petit Poucet, The Dancing Times, Peter Pan, Royal Ballet, Serge Lifar, Prince Charming, Frederick Ashton, L'Eventail de Jeanne, Ravel Remembered, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, André Levinson, Léon Bakst, Lynn Garafola, Mother Goose, Sleeping Beauty, Untwisting the Serpent New!
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esquisse autobiographique, son oeuvre dramatique, danse générale, orchestral premiere, balletic elements, langage des fleurs, ballet projects, les sortilèges, ballet premiere, dance research, triple metre, sonic image, ballet score, piano version, musical imagery, piano score, ballet music, cor anglais Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maurice Ravel, New York, Ballets Russes, Ida Rubinstein, Moving Music, George Balanchine, Théâtre des Arts, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Ravel Reader, Petit Poucet, The Dancing Times, Peter Pan, Royal Ballet, Serge Lifar, Prince Charming, Frederick Ashton, L'Eventail de Jeanne, Ravel Remembered, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, André Levinson, Léon Bakst, Lynn Garafola, Mother Goose, Sleeping Beauty, Untwisting the Serpent New!
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- Ravel Remembered (Composers remembered series) by Roger Nichols on 14 pages
- Maurice Ravel by Mr. Roger Nichols on 10 pages
- Ravel: Man and Musician by Arbie Orenstein on 10 pages
- Maurice Ravel (20th-Century Composers) by Gerald Larner on 8 pages
- Maurice Ravel (Music Book Index) by Roland Manuel on 8 pages
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