{"product_id":"reflections-the-piano-music-of-maurice-ravel-9781574672022","title":"Reflections: The Piano Music of Maurice Ravel","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paul Roberts\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Amadeus\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Amadeus\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Individual Composer \u0026amp; Musician\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe piano music of Maurice Ravel is among the most thrilling, the most colorful, and, for pianists, the most challenging of the repertoire. This book is about how performers and listeners can discover it and relate to it - how it sounds and feels under the fingers and within the receptive imagination. But to write about those experiences, to explore the background, influences, and impulses behind Ravel's music, is to be engaged in a form of biography. Discovering the delicate melancholy of the \u003ci\u003ePavane\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eSonatine\u003c\/i\u003e, the astounding virtuosity of \u003ci\u003eGaspard de la nuit\u003c\/i\u003e, and the exotic tone painting of \u003ci\u003eMiroirs (Reflections)\u003c\/i\u003e leads to the question \"Who was the extraordinary person who created this?\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere are indispensable insights into the literary origins of \u003ci\u003eGaspard de la nuit\u003c\/i\u003e, the derivation of the water imagery in \u003ci\u003eJeux d'eau\u003c\/i\u003e and the sensuous delights of \u003ci\u003eMiroirs\u003c\/i\u003e. The chapter on \u003ci\u003eValses nobles et sentimentales\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates Ravel's meticulously controlled sense of irony. \u003ci\u003eLe tombeau de Couperin\u003c\/i\u003e is related to the impact of the First World War on his psyche and to the refuge he sought in the civilizing values of the age of Watteau and Couperin. Intimate and perceptive, \u003ci\u003eReflections\u003c\/i\u003e is inescapably about the life of Maurice Ravel - reflections, by way of the piano music, on an exceptionally private but immensely attractive man.","brand":"Amadeus","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47576159617175,"sku":"9781574672022","price":3344.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781574672022.webp?v=1774900044","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/reflections-the-piano-music-of-maurice-ravel-9781574672022","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}