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Four Orchestral Works in Full Score: Rapsodie Espagnole, Mother Goose Suite, Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales, and Pavane for a Dead Princess

by Maurice Ravel

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A full-score collection of four orchestral works by Ravel

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A full-score collection of four orchestral works by Ravel

This volume gathers full scores for four of Maurice Ravel’s orchestral works: Rapsodie Espagnole, Mother Goose Suite, Valses nobles et sentimentales, and Pavane for a Dead Princess. The selection places contrasting orchestral moods within a single study edition, while keeping attention on Ravel’s handling of form, color, and shifting musical energy. The publisher description identifies Rapsodie Espagnole as Ravel’s first work composed entirely for orchestra, making it a useful point of entry into the collection’s orchestral focus. Designed for score study, the book offers the complete ensemble layout rather than a simplified arrangement.

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  • Musicians and students studying orchestral scores
  • Conductors and performers interested in Ravel’s orchestration
  • Classical-music listeners who want to follow these works in full score

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OrchestrationFrench classical musicScore studyMusical formRavel’s orchestral works

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Book overview

Although the moods may vary throughout these evocative works, the elegance and subtly shifting energies of their musical language could only be those of Maurice Ravel. To study them in this full-score edition is to become more fully aware not only of his great originality but also of the constant striving for perfection of form and style that prompted Stravinsky to compare him admiringly to "the most perfect of Swiss watchmakers."
The Rapsodie Espagnole was Ravel's first entirely orchestral composition. A work whose exotic fantasy and subtle craftsmanship clearly express Ravel's distinctive musical personality, it was first performed publicly at the Th

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