This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the life, music and compositional aesthetic of French composer Maurice Ravel (1875SH1937). Leading international scholars offer a powerful reassessment of this most private and elusive musician, examining his work in detail within its cultural context. Marking the 125th anniversary of Ravel's birth, the volume explores the full range of his work--piano repertory, chamber works, orchestral music, ballets, songs and operas--and concludes by analyzing the performance and reception of his music, including previously untranslated reviews.
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"Mawer's excellent volume brings together essays by leading international Ravel scholars...One expects only the highest quality scholarship from Cambridge, and this book certainly fulfills that promise." Choice
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This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the life, music and compositional aesthetic of French composer Maurice Ravel (1875SH1937). Leading international scholars offer a powerful reassessment of this most private and elusive musician, examining his work in detail within its cultural context. Celebrating the 125th anniversary of Ravel's birth, the volume explores the full range of his work--piano repertory, chamber works, orchestral music, ballets, songs and operas - and concludes by analysing the performance and reception of his music, including previously untranslated reviews.
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Ravel informed Cipa Godebski in Spring 1914: 'I am transcribing a Forlane by Couperin. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ostinato machine, agogic stress, langueur infinie, del gracioso, musical exoticism, concerto for the left hand, des jouets, des cloches, flattened seventh, compositional aesthetic, musical objects, est doux, cor anglais, exotic music, pitch organization, piano writing, harmonic language, ballet score, sonata form Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maurice Ravel, Piano Trio, Marguerite Long, Prix de Rome, Don Quichotte, Vlado Perlemuter, Ballets Russes, Golden Section, Jane Bathori, Mme de Saint-Marceaux, Robert Casadesus, Manuel Rosenthal, Schoenberg's Pierrot, The Philosophy of Composition, The Raven, Alfred Cortot, Chopin's Etude, Darius Milhaud, Debussy's Quartet, Edgar Allan Poe, Erik Satie, Galimir Quartet, Ida Rubinstein, Lamoureux Orchestra, Nationale de France New!
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Ravel informed Cipa Godebski in Spring 1914: 'I am transcribing a Forlane by Couperin. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ostinato machine, agogic stress, langueur infinie, del gracioso, musical exoticism, concerto for the left hand, des jouets, des cloches, flattened seventh, compositional aesthetic, musical objects, est doux, cor anglais, exotic music, pitch organization, piano writing, harmonic language, ballet score, sonata form Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maurice Ravel, Piano Trio, Marguerite Long, Prix de Rome, Don Quichotte, Vlado Perlemuter, Ballets Russes, Golden Section, Jane Bathori, Mme de Saint-Marceaux, Robert Casadesus, Manuel Rosenthal, Schoenberg's Pierrot, The Philosophy of Composition, The Raven, Alfred Cortot, Chopin's Etude, Darius Milhaud, Debussy's Quartet, Edgar Allan Poe, Erik Satie, Galimir Quartet, Ida Rubinstein, Lamoureux Orchestra, Nationale de France New!
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- Ravel by Roger Nichols on 13 pages
- Ravel Remembered (Composers Remembered Series) by Roger Nichols on 12 pages
- Ravel According to Ravel by Vlado Perlemuter on 6 pages
- Maurice Ravel (Music Book Index) by Roland Manuel on 6 pages
- Dictionary Of Music And Musicians (9 Volumes)) (Music Book Index) by Sir George Grove on 5 pages
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- The Ballets of Maurice Ravel: Creation And Interpretation by Deborah Mawer on 8 pages
- Maurice Ravel: A Guide to Research (Routledge Music Bibliographies) by Stephen Zank on 8 pages
- How Sondheim Found His Sound by Prof. Steve Swayne in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- French Music Since Berlioz by Richard Langham Smith in Front Matter, page 221, and page 267
- The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Mervyn Cooke in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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