Irony and Sound: The Music of Maurice Ravel
- Author: Zank, Stephen
Filled with detailed insight into the thought world of Ravel and his time, and, best of all, close reading of the music. . . . Most illuminating. . . . Can be read with profit by anyone interested... — More…
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Contents
- Introduction
- "Gentle Irony"
- Simple Sound: Ravel and "Crescendo"
- Opposed Sound: Ravel and Counterpoint
- Displaced Sound: Ravel and Registration
- Plundered Sound: Ravel and the Exotic
- Sound and Sense: Ravel and Synaesthesia
- "Secrets of Modernity": Irony and Style
- Appendix: Ravel's 1902 Prix de Rome Fugue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index