The piece was originally written as a fivemovement piano duet in 1910. Maurice ravel ma mere loye mother goose suite born. In 1908, the french composer, maurice ravel, wrote an exquisite piano suite for four hands based on mother goose tales. Mother goose suite is a breakthrough in orchestration instruction with its newly engraved score with piano part.
Maurice ravel mother goose suite ep prague festival orchestra classical 20. Mother goose suite including pdf ebook, 3 pdf colorcoded scores, mp3 audio of mother goose suite, and a bonus duplicate set. For this suite, ravel selected favorite french fairy tales with references to fantasy, dreams and legends of childhood, and provided simple and delicate settings for piano duet one piano, four hands. Ravel took pleasure in the companionship of animals and children, and enjoyed reading fairy tales to mimi and jean.
The orchestra of the university of music franz liszt weimar, conducted by prof. Later in 1911 ravel rearranged the piano pieces for orchestra and used them as the basis for a longer ballet. Ravel sets the scene with an ancient slow processional dance in. Mother goose suite by maurice ravel ravel s mother goose suite was composed in 1908 as a group of five piano duet pieces for mimi and jean godebski, the children of his closest friends. Download pictures at an exhibition orchestrated by maurice ravel eulenburg audioscore pdf free. This arrangement will take your young band on a journey through the enchanted world of fairy talesfrom the reflective sleeping beauty pavane, to the playful tom thumb, the exotic empress of the pagoda, through the.
Piano duet performed in 1992 by le duo campionvachon. For the more advanced yet youngatheart musicians, m j. Newly engraved orchestral score with piano part and brief analysis of. Maurice ravel 18751937 mother goose suite for piano four hand roman rabinovich and orion weiss, piano performed on june 25, 2016 harkness chapel. Alexander publishing releases how ravel orchestrated. He composed the mother goose suite for piano fourhands in the years 190810 and orchestrated sections as a balletadding a prelude and spinningwheel dancein 1911. Mother goose all works by this person are still under in canada, the eu, japan, and elsewhere and are thus subject to deletion.
Mother goose suite alexander publishing has completely reengraved the classic work with the condensed piano part at page bottom in an oversized a4 format. Mother goose suite by maurice ravel ravels mother goose suite was composed in 1908 as a group of five piano duet pieces for mimi and jean godebski, the children of his closest friends. The idea of evoking the poetry of childhood in these pieces, ravel later explained, naturally led me to simplify my style and to refine my means of expression. Panchiq 21, professional orchestrationprospectus, 7, original, pdf. Rareprofessional orchestration vol1peter lawrence alexander.
The ballet suite petrushka by igor stravinsky is a very different suite from ravels mother goose. The pavane of the sleeping beauty is the first and shortest piece of the mother goose suite. His fascination with the wonder and imagination of childhood are evident in this piece. Pictures at an exhibition orchestrated by maurice ravel. Ravel specifically composed the suite for children to play and wrote that, the idea of evoking the poetry of childhood in these pieces naturally led me to simplify my style and to refine my means of expression. On the other, his mother goose suite will reveal yet another aspect of his penchant for reinterpretation of timehonored musical traditions. Oye is correctly capitalized, being a proper name is a suite by french composer maurice ravel. Like many of the french composers works, mother goose was hatched as a piano piece, this one written expressly for a young sister and brother team, mimi and jean godebski, whose parents were friends of ravel. Ravel dedicated this work for four hands to the children just as he had dedicated an. The premiere took place on may 22, 1975, at the new york state theater, lincoln center, with costumes by stanley simmons and lighting by jennifer tipton. At first a fourhand piano suite, maurice ravels orchestral ballet version made it wellknown and popular. How ravel orchestrated by peter lawrence alexander, 9780939067121. Mother goose suite is a breakthrough in orchestration instruction with its newly engraved score with piano part at page bottom, the original short stories that ravel based the work on, and a complete analysis of each movement, combined together, showing how ravel orchestrated. By including the piano part at page bottom, you can see specific devices that ravel used, where, and how he orchestrated them.
Mother goose, complete ballet ravel composed mother goose as a suite of five pieces for piano duet between 1908 and 1910. The piece was transcribed for solo piano by ravels friend jacques charlot the same year as. Ravels mother goose suite delicate childhood stories. Mother goose is one of ravels most exquisite creations. Rapsodie espagnole, mother goose suite, valses nobles et sentimentales. Get a special offer and listen to over 60 million songs, anywhere with amazon music unlimited.
In that spirit, michael stern leads a student orchestra in the finale. In 1911, ravel orchestrated and refashioned the suite. A gifted pianist with a subtle ear for keyboard timbres, ravel was a. By including the piano part at page bottom, you can see specific devices. Nicolas pasquet, plays maurice ravel s ma mere loye mother goose, originally composed as a piano duet for 2.
Maurice ravel born march 7, 1875, ciboure, basses pyrenees, france. He takes the reader into the genius of ravel, unwrapping the tools, techniques and tricks that ravel intuitively understood and applied to all his music, not just the mother goose suite. Maurice ravel composed ma mere loye mother goose in 1908 for piano duet, and orchestrated it in 1911, expanding it into a ballet score. Whatever the authenticity of her origins, mother gooses rhymes and fairy tales captured the imagination of the western world, and she is very much a part of our childhood. Ravel wrote the mother goose suite for two children who were very special to him. Ravel completed his mother goose suite in 1910, dedicating it to mimie and jean godebski, the young children of close friends. The enchanted garden also known as the fairy garden is the concluding movement of a suite originally published as a piano duet, but which became better known in the composers orchestral version. As its title suggests, ma mere loye mother goose was originally intended for. The philosophy of composition and the poetic principle. Mother goose suite by maurice ravel adelphi orchestra. All digital download edition of how ravel orchestrated.
Alexander expertly analyses every aspect of ravels process, and makes it accessible to us mere mortals, so that we can then apply it to our own music. Even when he orchestrated and enlarged the suite into a ballet score in 1911, he managed. Rapsodie espagnole, mother goose suite, valses nobles et sentimentales, and pavane for a dead princess dover music scores ravel, maurice on. Ravels score is beautiful, enchanting, simple and melodic. The basis of the work is the 17th century collection of fairy tales known as mother goose. Maurice ravel ma mere loye mother goose full youtube. Ravels mother goose suite, revisited maurice ravel had a habit of rearranging his music from piano to orchestra and back. Also included as a free downloadable bonus, are two pdf copies of the score. Like many of the french composers works, mother goose was hatched as a piano piece, this.
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