Four Orchestral Works in Full Score: Rapsodie Espagnole, Mother Goose Suite, Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales, and Pavane for a Dead Princess (Dover Music Scores)
By Maurice Ravel.
Description
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...
ISBN(s)
0486259625, 9780486259628
