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Unmasking Ravel

By Peter Kaminsky

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Unmasking Ravel

By Peter Kaminsky

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Unmasking Ravel: New Perspectives on the Music fills a unique place in Ravel studies by combining critical interpretation and analytical focus. From the premiere of his works up to the present, Ravel has been associated with masks and the related notions of artifice and imposture. This has led scholars to perceive a lack of depth in his music and, consequently, to discourage investigation of his musical language. This volume balances and interweaves these modes of inquiry. Part 1, "Orientations and Influences," illuminates the sometimes contradictory aesthetic, biographical, and literary strands comprising Ravel's artistry and our understanding of it. Part 2, "Analytical Case Studies," engages representative works from Ravel's major genres using a variety of methodologies, focusing on structural process and his complex relation to stylistic convention. Part 3, "Interdisciplinary Studies," integrates musical analysis and art criticism, semiotics, and psychoanalysis in creating novel methodologies.
Contributors include prominent scholars of Ravel's and fin-de-siècle music: Elliott Antokoletz, Gurminder Bhogal, Sigrun B. Heinzelmann, Volker Helbing, Steven Huebner, Peter Kaminsky, Barbara Kelly, David Korevaar, Daphne Leong, Michael Puri, and Lauri Suurpää.
Peter Kaminsky is Professor of music at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
354
Release Date:
2011-05-15
Publication Date:
2011-05-01
Publisher:
University of Rochester Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1580463371
ISBN13:
9781580463379
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
664 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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