Piano Masterpieces of Maurice Ravel
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Piano Masterpieces of Maurice Ravel

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Piano Masterpieces of Maurice Ravel

About this book

"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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MIROIRS
I. NOCTUELLES
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II. OISEAUX TRISTES
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III. UNE BARQUE SUR Lâ€ČOCÉAN
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IV. ALBORADA DEL GRACIOSO
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V. LA VALLÉE DES CLOCHES
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ONDINE
...Je croyais entendre/Une vague harmonie enchanter mon sommeil,/Et prĂšs de moi s’épandre un murmure pareil/Aux chants entrecoupĂ©s d’une voix triste et tendre.
CH. BRUGNOT.—Les deux GĂ©nies.
—“Ecoute!—Ecoutc!—C’est moi, c’est Ondine qui frĂŽle de ces gouttes d’eau 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.
“Chaque flot est un ondin qui nage dans le courant, chaque courant est un sentier qui serpente vers mon palais, et mon palais est bñti fluide, au fond du lac, dans le triangle du feu, de la terre et de l’air.
“Ecoute!—Ecoute!—Mon pĂšre bat l’eau coassante d’une branche d’aulne verte, et mes sƓurs caressent de leurs bras d’écume les fraĂźches Ăźles d’herbes, de nĂ©nuphars et de glaĂŻeuls, ou se moquent du saule caduc et barbu qui pĂȘche Ă  la ligne.”
Sa chanson murmurĂ©e, elle me supplia de recevoir son anneau Ă  mon doigt, pour ĂȘtre l’époux d’une Ondine, et de visiter avec elle son palais, pour ĂȘtre le roi des lacs.
Et comme je lui rĂ©pondais que j’aimais une mortelle, boudeuse et dĂ©pitĂ©e, elle pleura quelqucs larmes, poussa un Ă©clat de rire, et s’évanouit 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 j’entends, 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?
C’est la cloche qui tinte aux murs d’une ville sous l’horizon, et la carcasse d’un pendu que rougit le solcil couchant.
SCARBO
Il regarda sous le lit, dans la cheminĂ©e, dans le bahut;—personne. Il ne put comprendre par oĂč il s’était intr...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Menuet antique (Old Minuet; composed 1895; dedicated to Ricardo Viñes)
  6. Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Deceased Infanta; 1899; dedicated to Princess E. de Polignac)
  7. Jeux d’eau (Play of Water; 1901; dedicated to Gabriel FaurĂ©)
  8. Sonatine (Sonatina; 1903–05; dedicated to Ida and Cipa Godebski)
  9. Miroirs (Mirrors; 1904–05)
  10. Gaspard de la nuit (Artful Dodger of the Night; 1908) Poetic texts and translations
  11. Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn (Minuet on the Name of Haydn; 1909)
  12. Back Cover