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Author |
: Jean Echenoz |
Publisher |
: New Press, The |
Total Pages |
: 130 |
Release |
: 2011-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781595586704 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1595586709 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ravel by : Jean Echenoz
Ravel is a beguiling and original evocation of the last ten years in the life of the musical genius Ravel, written by novelist Jean Echenoz. The book opens in 1928 as Maurice Ravel—dandy, eccentric, curmudgeon—crosses the Atlantic abroad the luxury liner the SS France to begin his triumphant grand tour of the United States. A “master magician of the French novel” (The Washington Post), Echenoz captures the folly of the era as well as its genius, including Ravel’s personal life—sartorially and socially splendid—as well as his most successful compositions from 1927 to 1937. Illuminated by flashes of Echenoz’s characteristically sly humor, Ravel is a delightfully quirky portrait of a famous musician coping with the ups and downs of his illustrious career. It is also a beautifully written novel that’s a deeply touching farewell to a dignified and lonely man going reluctantly into the night.
Author |
: Arbie Orenstein |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 1991-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0486266338 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780486266336 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ravel by : Arbie Orenstein
The standard Ravel biography by the world's foremost authority — brilliantly detailed and documented, filled with quotations from letters, interviews with the composer's friends, an illuminating analysis of each of his works, a study of his musical esthetics and language, a complete catalog of his works, and a discography. "Highly recommended" — Choice. Includes 48 illustrations.
Author |
: Benjamin Ivry |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015049490074 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Maurice Ravel by : Benjamin Ivry
Maurice Ravel: A Life is the first convincing attempt to paint a portrait of the life and work of the hitherto enigmatic composer of Bolero, Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, and L'enfant Et Les Sortileges. Ivry offers here a convincing solution to the much-discussed "mystery" of Ravel's sexuality. More than simply "outing" Ravel as a gay man for the first time among numerous writers on this composer, this book discusses how his secretive sexuality impacted his work. Using unpublished documents, letters, articles and memoirs, many of which were previously unknown even to Arbie Orenstein, universally considered the world's leading scholar of Ravel studies, Ivry presents a more rounded view of Ravel, man and musician. Descriptions of musical works are in non-technical language, friendly to the reader with no specialized knowledge of classical music. Like Ivry's widely acclaimed biography of Poulenc, universally seen as the standard life of this composer in any language, his new Ravel is likely to become a classic of contemporary musical biography.
Author |
: Roger Nichols |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 449 |
Release |
: 2011-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300108828 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300108826 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ravel by : Roger Nichols
This new biography of Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), by one of the leading scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French music, is based on a wealth of written and oral evidence, some newly translated and some derived from interviews with the composer’s friends and associates. As well as describing the circumstances in which Ravel composed, the book explores new evidence to present radical views of the composer’s background and upbringing, his notorious failure in the Prix de Rome, his incisive and often combative character, his sexual preferences, and his long final illness. It also contains the most detailed account so far published of his hugely successful American tour of 1928. The world of Maurice Ravel—including friendships (and some fallings-out) with Debussy, Faur�, Diaghilev, Gershwin, and Toscanini—is deftly uncovered in this sensitive portrait.
Author |
: Deborah Mawer |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2000-08-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521648564 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521648561 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Ravel by : Deborah Mawer
A comprehensive introduction to the life, music and compositional aesthetic of Maurice Ravel.
Author |
: Stephen Zank |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 379 |
Release |
: 2013-05-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135173517 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135173516 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Maurice Ravel by : Stephen Zank
Maurice Ravel: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer and theorist.
Author |
: Maurice Ravel |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 706 |
Release |
: 2003-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780486430782 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0486430782 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Ravel Reader by : Maurice Ravel
This outstanding compilation of articles by Ravel (who was a brilliant critic) features reviews, interviews, and some 350 letters from Cocteau, Colette, de Falla, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, and other major figures of the time.
Author |
: Jeffrey S. Ravel |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2018-09-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501724626 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501724622 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Contested Parterre by : Jeffrey S. Ravel
In the playhouses of eighteenth-century France, clerks and students, soldiers and merchants, and the occasional aristocrat stood in the pit, while the majority of the elite sat in loges. These denizens of the parterre, who accounted for up to two-thirds of the audience, were given to disruptive behavior that culminated in full-scale riots in the last years before the Revolution. Offering a commoner's eye view of the drama offstage, this fascinating history of French theater audiences clearly demonstrates how problems in the parterre reflected tensions at the heart of the Old Regime.Jeffrey S. Ravel vividly depicts the scene in the parterre where the male spectators occupied themselves shoving one another, drinking, urinating, and confronting the actors with critiques of the performance. He traces the futile efforts of the Bourbon Court—and later its Enlightened opponents—to control parterre behavior by both persuasion and force. Ravel describes how the parterre came to represent a larger, more politicized notion of the public, one that exposed the inability of the government to accommodate the demands of French citizens. An important contribution to debates on the public sphere, Ravel's book is the first to explore the role of the parterre in the political culture of eighteenth-century France.
Author |
: Gerald Larner |
Publisher |
: Phaidon |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 1996-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015035660508 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Maurice Ravel by : Gerald Larner
Much of the music of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) is among the most accessible of any written in the last hundred years; the man, however, was notoriously difficult to get to know. In Maurice Ravel, Gerald Larner aims to trace the development of the composer's personality not only through events in his life and in the society around him but also through his music, which is more revealing in this respect than is generally believed. This beautifully crafted book offers many fresh insights into the life and work of this enigmatic composer.
Author |
: Jessie Fillerup |
Publisher |
: University of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2021-04-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520379886 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520379888 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Magician of Sound by : Jessie Fillerup
French composer Maurice Ravel was described by critics as a magician, conjurer, and illusionist. Scholars have been aware of this historical curiosity, but none so far have explained why Ravel attracted such critiques or what they might tell us about how to interpret his music. Magician of Sound examines Ravel's music through the lens of illusory experience, considering how timbre, orchestral effects, figure/ground relationships, and impressions of motion and stasis might be experienced as if they were conjuring tricks. Applying concepts from music theory, psychology, philosophy, and the history of magic, Jessie Fillerup develops an approach to musical illusion that newly illuminates Ravel's fascination with machines and creates compelling links between his music and other forms of aesthetic illusion, from painting and poetry to fiction and phantasmagoria. Fillerup analyzes scenes of enchantment and illusory effects in Ravel's most popular works, including Boléro, La Valse, Daphnis et Chloé, and Rapsodie espagnole, relating his methods and musical effects to the practice of theatrical conjurers. Drawing on a rich well of primary sources, Magician of Sound provides a new interdisciplinary framework for interpreting this enigmatic composer, linking magic and music.