Bolero - The Life of Maurice Ravel

Bolero - The Life of Maurice Ravel
Author: Madeleine Goss
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2013-01-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1447485793

A charming biography of Maurice Ravel, showing the relationships and events that shaped the music of France's most successful composer. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel
Author: Benjamin Ivry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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 Using unpublished documents, letters, articles and memoirs, many of which were previously unknown even to Arbie Orenstein, universally considered the world's leading scholar of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.

Ravel

Ravel
Author: Roger Nichols
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0300108826

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.

Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel
Author: Gerald Larner
Publisher: Phaidon
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1996-09-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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.

Bolero

Bolero
Author: Maurice (COP) Ravel
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2006-04-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781423404774

A group of resourceful kids start "solution-seekers.com," a website where "cybervisitors" can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the Old Testament. What they find is a series of "S" words that reveal a "spectacular story!" With creative characters, humorous dialogue and great music, The "S" Files is a children's Christmas musical your kids will love performing.

Bolero

Bolero
Author: Madeleine 1892-1960 Goss
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781014182920

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Irony and Sound

Irony and Sound
Author: Stephen Zank
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2009
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1580461891

An insightful and exquisitely written reconsideration of Ravel's modernity, his teaching, and his place in twentieth-century music and culture.

Ravel

Ravel
Author: Arbie Orenstein
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 354
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780486266336

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.

Cion

Cion
Author: Zakes Mda
Publisher: Picador
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2007-08-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 142993364X

A Picador Paperback Original The hero of Zakes Mda's beloved Ways of Dying, Toloki, sets down with a family in Middle America and uncovers the story of the runaway slaves who were their ancestors. Toloki, the professional mourner, has come to live in America. Lured to Athens, Ohio, by an academic at the local university, Toloki makes friends with an angry young man he meets at a Halloween parade and soon falls in love with the young man's sister. Toloki endears himself to a local quilting group and his quilting provides a portal to the past, a story of two escaped slaves seeking freedom in Ohio. Making their way north from Virginia with nothing but their mother's quilts for a map, the boys hope to find a promised land where blacks can live as free men. Their story alternates with Toloki's, as the two narratives cast a new light on America in the twenty-first century and on an undiscovered legacy of the Underground Railroad.

The Cambridge Companion to Ravel

The Cambridge Companion to Ravel
Author: Deborah Mawer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2000-08-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521648561

A comprehensive introduction to the life, music and compositional aesthetic of Maurice Ravel.