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Author_Deborah Mawer
Ballets Russes
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choreographic analysis
Corps De Ballet
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French ballet music research
Gaspard De La Nuit
La Valse
Le Tombeau
Le Tombeau De Couperin
Les Entretiens
Mad House
multimedia performance studies
musicology
neoclassical music
Pas De Deux
Petit Poucet
Rapsodie Espagnole
Ravel's Ballets
Ravel's Letter
Ravel's Music
Ravel's Scenario
Ravel’s Ballets
Ravel’s Letter
Ravel’s Music
Ravel’s Scenario
Ser Gei Dia-ghi Lev
Serge Diaghilev
stage collaboration
twentieth-century Paris
UK Premiere
valse
Valses Nobles
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780754630296
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jun 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Maurice Ravel, as composer and scenario writer, collaborated with some of the greatest ballet directors, choreographers, designers and dancers of his time, including Diaghilev, Ida Rubinstein, Benois and Nijinsky. In this book, the first study dedicated to Ravel's ballets, Deborah Mawer explores these relationships and argues that ballet music should not be regarded in isolation from its associated arts. Indeed, Ravel's views on ballet and other stage works privilege a synthesized aesthetic. The first chapter establishes a historical and critical context for Ravel's scores, engaging en route with multimedia theory. Six main ballets from Daphnis et Chloé through to Boléro are considered holistically alongside themes such as childhood fantasy, waltzing and neoclassicism. Each work is examined in terms of its evolution, premiere, critical reception and reinterpretation through to the present; new findings result from primary-source research, undertaken especially in Paris. The final chapter discusses the reasons for Ravel's collaborations and the strengths and weaknesses of his interpersonal relations. Mawer emphasizes the importance of the performative dimension in realizing Ravel's achievement, and proposes that the composer's large-scale oeuvre can, in a sense, be viewed as a balletic undertaking. In so doing, this book adds significantly to current research interest in artistic production and interplay in early twentieth-century Paris.
Deborah Mawer is Senior Lecturer in Music at Lancaster University, UK. Her research focuses upon the analysis and history of early twentieth-century French music in its cultural setting, with a particular interest in ballet. She is author of Darius Milhaud: Modality and Structure in Music of the 1920s (Ashgate, 1997) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Ravel (Cambridge, 2000). She also writes on issues in music education.
