Unmasking Ravel: New Perspectives on the Music (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781580463379)

Collection of critical and analytical scholarly essays on the music of Ravel by prominent scholars.

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 interweavesthese 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," integratesmusical analysis and art criticism, semiotics, and psychoanalysis in creating novel methodologies.

Contributors include prominent scholars of Ravel's and fin-de-si鐵le music: Elliott Antokoletz, Gurminder Bhogal, Sigrun B. Heinzelmann, Volker Helbing, Steven Huebner, Peter Kaminsky, Barbara Kelly, David Korevaar, Daphne Leong, Michael Puri, and Lauri Suurp蒿.

Peter Kaminsky is Professor of Music at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Author: Peter Kaminsky
ISBN-10: 1580463371
ISBN-13: 9781580463379
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Language: English
Published: 05/15/2011
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2011