How Ravel Orchestrated: Mother Goose Suite
Oversized Score (8.5 x 14)
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Bonus PDF downloads with colorized score
200 pages, Illustrated, $49.95US
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Alexander Publishing’s How Ravel Orchestrated: Mother Goose Suite is a breakthrough in orchestration instruction. For the first time ever, an American publishing company has completely re-engraved the classic work with the condensed piano part at page bottom in an oversized 8x14 format packaged with a complete Naxos Recording of Mother Goose Suite by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kenneth Jean. Said American Record Guide about this performance, "This is a treasurable collection excellently conducted by Kenneth Jean."
For fast referencing, each bar is numbered at the bottom of the page (original rehearsal marks are also included).
By including the piano part at page bottom, counterpoint instructors can easily demonstrate specific devices that Ravel used, where, and how he orchestrated them. Jazz instructors will also seeing how Ravel composed and orchestrated using altered DOM7 chords, mixolydian chord scales, and triads with the added 9 th.
Second, How Ravel Orchestrated: Mother Goose Suite is a good read. Preceding each movement is the complete short story that movement was based on. Now a student can look at Mother Goose Suite to better understand the dramatic composition and scoring techniques that went into each work. By comparing back to the original story, the student gains a better of understand of Ravel’s approach to scoring such moods as stateliness, unsure ness, animal effects without synthesizers, romantic anxiety, joy, emotional rising without the basses, happily ever after, and much more.
Following each movement is a brief orchestration analysis based on the Eight Keys To Learning Professional Orchestration as taught in the Professional Orchestration Series. Simply put, there has never been a practical analysis like this before, written in an engaging, accessible read/apply style for the, “working composer.”
Supporting the 8 Keys analysis are two extra copies of Mother Goose Suite in PDF format that the student can download. The first extra score is an exact duplicate of the original so the student can mark on it with notes and impressions. The second, again for the first time, is a color coded version graphically illustrating how Ravel orchestrated.
Third, How Ravel Orchestrated: Mother Goose Suite goes beyond traditional analysis by including two literary works by Poe which greatly impacted Ravel, The Poetic Principle and The Philosophy of Composition. In a visual society, it’s important for students to know that Ravel was influenced by what he read
Also included is a brief on Ravel’s method of working.
This is a dream book/CD package for any composer, arranger or fan of Ravel.
