"Ravel is one of the rare French composers who have left so strong an imprint on their art that music after them can never be the same." — Alexis Roland-Manuel.
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) ranks as one of the most original French composers of his time, a consummate craftsman who continually sought perfection of form and style, and whose unique harmonic language was unmistakably his own. Along with Debussy, he stands in the front rank of great modern composers for the piano and his piano music includes a number of masterpieces considered vital to the repertoire of any serious pianist. This handsome, affordable volume reprints a rich selection of his compositions: "Pavane pour une infante défunte," "Jeux d'eau," "Sonatine," "Miroirs," "Menuet antique," "Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn," "Gaspard de la nuit," and more.
From the dazzling "Jeux d'eau," whose inventiveness and harmonic ingenuity opened a whole new era in sound, to the beloved "Pavane pour une infante défunte," to the suite "Gaspard de la nuit," music of legendary difficulty that every serious pianist eventually attempts, the piano music of Ravel is among the most recorded and performed in the repertoire. This inexpensive Dover edition makes that music available, at a reasonable price, to pianists who wish to play and study the works of a composer in the vanguard of "the new order of post-Lisztian piano writing."

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Piano Masterpieces of Maurice Ravel
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Classical MusicMIROIRS
I. NOCTUELLES









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V. LA VALLĂE DES CLOCHES





ONDINE
...Je croyais entendre/Une vague harmonie enchanter mon sommeil,/Et prĂšs de moi sâĂ©pandre un murmure pareil/Aux chants entrecoupĂ©s dâune voix triste et tendre.
CH. BRUGNOT.âLes deux GĂ©nies.
ââEcoute!âEcoutc!âCâest moi, câest Ondine qui frĂŽle de ces gouttes dâeau les losanges sonores de ta fenĂȘtre illuminĂ©e par les mornes rayons de la lune; et voici, en robe de moire, la dame chĂątelaine qui contemple Ă son balcon la belle nuit Ă©toilĂ©e et le beau lac endormi.
âChaque flot est un ondin qui nage dans le courant, chaque courant est un sentier qui serpente vers mon palais, et mon palais est bĂąti fluide, au fond du lac, dans le triangle du feu, de la terre et de lâair.
âEcoute!âEcoute!âMon pĂšre bat lâeau coassante dâune branche dâaulne verte, et mes sĆurs caressent de leurs bras dâĂ©cume les fraĂźches Ăźles dâherbes, de nĂ©nuphars et de glaĂŻeuls, ou se moquent du saule caduc et barbu qui pĂȘche Ă la ligne.â
Sa chanson murmurĂ©e, elle me supplia de recevoir son anneau Ă mon doigt, pour ĂȘtre lâĂ©poux dâune Ondine, et de visiter avec elle son palais, pour ĂȘtre le roi des lacs.
Et comme je lui rĂ©pondais que jâaimais une mortelle, boudeuse et dĂ©pitĂ©e, elle pleura quelqucs larmes, poussa un Ă©clat de rire, et sâĂ©vanouit en giboulĂ©es qui ruisselĂšrent blanches le long de mes vitraux blcus.
LE GIBET
Que vois-je remucr autour de ce Gibet?
FAUST.
Ah! ce que jâentends, serait-ce la bise nocturne qui glapit, ou le pcndu qui pousse un soupir sur la fourche patibulaire?
Serait-ce quelque grillon qui chante tapi dans la mousse et le 1ierre stérile dont par pitié se chausse le bois?
Serait-ce quelque mouche en chasse sonnant du cor autour de ces oreilles sourdes Ă la fanfare des hallali?
Serait-ce quelque escarbot qui cueille en son vol inégal un cheveu sanglant à son crùne chauve?
Ou bien serait-ce quelque araignée qui brode une demi-aune de mousseline pour eravate à ce col étranglé?
Câest la cloche qui tinte aux murs dâune ville sous lâhorizon, et la carcasse dâun pendu que rougit le solcil couchant.
SCARBO
Il regarda sous le lit, dans la cheminĂ©e, dans le bahut;âpersonne. Il ne put comprendre par oĂč il sâĂ©tait intr...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright Page
- Menuet antique (Old Minuet; composed 1895; dedicated to Ricardo Viñes)
- Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Deceased Infanta; 1899; dedicated to Princess E. de Polignac)
- Jeux dâeau (Play of Water; 1901; dedicated to Gabriel FaurĂ©)
- Sonatine (Sonatina; 1903â05; dedicated to Ida and Cipa Godebski)
- Miroirs (Mirrors; 1904â05)
- Gaspard de la nuit (Artful Dodger of the Night; 1908) Poetic texts and translations
- Menuet sur le nom dâHaydn (Minuet on the Name of Haydn; 1909)
- Back Cover
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