Bolero Urtext by Maurice Ravel Orchestra - Sheet Music

By Maurice Ravel

Jean-Francois Monnard's new Urtext edition is the first to be based on a musicologically well-founded source comparison. Ravel's first sketch of the score as well as his final handwritten score were laid down as the principal sources.Jean-Francois Monnard's new Urtext edition is the first to be based on a musicologically well-founded source comparison. Ravel's first sketch of the score as well as his final handwritten score were laid down as the principal sources. In his preface, Monnard examines Ravel's sound aesthetics against the background of concert reception and historical recordings. Moreover, he also provides insights into Ravel's ideas concerning the tempo: ,,I must say that the Bolero is rarely conducted the way I think it should. Mengelberg speeds up and slows down excessively. Toscanini takes it twice as fast as it should be and broadens the tempo at the close, which is indicated nowhere. No: the Bolero should be played in one single tempo from the beginning to the end, in the plaintive and monotonous style of Spanish-Arabian melodies. The performance material to Ravel's Bolero can now also be purchased in its entirety for the first time.

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Instrument:
Clarinet Saxophone
Ensembles:
Orchestra
Genres:
Impressionism Dance March
Composers:
Maurice Ravel
Publishers:
Breitkopf and Haertel
Series:
Breitkopf Score Library
ISBN:
9790004211915
Format:
Score
Item types:
Physical
Musical forms:
March
Artist:
Maurice Ravel
Usages:
School and Community
Number of Pages:
76
Size:
10 x 12.5 inches
Shipping Weight:
0.95 pounds

Orchestra (3(picc).3(ob.d'am.cor angl.).3(Eb-clar.B-clar).S-Sax,T-Sax(S-Sax).3(dble bsn) – 4.4.3.1 – timp.perc(4) – hp – cel – str)

SKU: BR.PB-5299

Urtext. Composed by Maurice Ravel. Edited by Jean-Francois Monnard. This edition: urtext. Orchestra; stapled. Partitur-Bibliothek (Score Library). Jean-Francois Monnard's new Urtext edition is the first to be based on a musicologically well-founded source comparison. Ravel's first sketch of the score as well as his final handwritten score were laid down as the principal sources. Dances/marches; Early modern. Full score. 76 pages. Duration 16'. Breitkopf and Haertel #PB 5299. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.PB-5299).

ISBN 9790004211915. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Jean-Francois Monnard's new Urtext edition is the first to be based on a musicologically well-founded source comparison. Ravel's first sketch of the score as well as his final handwritten score were laid down as the principal sources.Jean-Francois Monnard's new Urtext edition is the first to be based on a musicologically well-founded source comparison. Ravel's first sketch of the score as well as his final handwritten score were laid down as the principal sources. In his preface, Monnard examines Ravel's sound aesthetics against the background of concert reception and historical recordings. Moreover, he also provides insights into Ravel's ideas concerning the tempo: ,,I must say that the Bolero is rarely conducted the way I think it should. Mengelberg speeds up and slows down excessively. Toscanini takes it twice as fast as it should be and broadens the tempo at the close, which is indicated nowhere. No: the Bolero should be played in one single tempo from the beginning to the end, in the plaintive and monotonous style of Spanish-Arabian melodies. The performance material to Ravel's Bolero can now also be purchased in its entirety for the first time.