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Irony and Sound - The Music of Maurice Ravel (Electronic book text)
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Irony and Sound - The Music of Maurice Ravel (Electronic book text)
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What is it about 'Bolro', 'Gaspard de la nuit', and 'Daphnis et
Chlo' that makes musicians and listeners alike love them so?
Stephen Zank here illuminates these and other works of Maurice
Ravel through several of the composer's fascinations: dynamic
intensification, counterpoint, orchestration, exotic influences on
Western music, and an interest in multisensorial perception.
Connecting all these fascinations, Zank argues, is irony. His book
offers an appreciation of Ravel's musical irony that is grounded in
the vocabularies and criticism of the time and in two early
attempts at writing up a "Ravel Aesthetic" by intimates of Ravel.
Thomas Mann called irony the phenomenon that is, "beyond compare,
the most profound and most alluring in the world." 'Irony and
Sound', written with insight and flair, provides a long-needed
reconsideration of Ravel's modernity, his teaching, and his place
in twentieth-century music and culture. Musicologist Stephen Zank
has taught at University of Illinois, University of North Texas,
and University of Rochester. He is the author of 'Maurice Ravel: A
Guide to Research'.
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