A First Book of RAVEL / very easy piano

Publisher | DOVER PUBLICATIONS |
Arrangement: |
classical & sacret
piano |
Cast: | solo |
Difficulty: | Beginner |
Format: |
book
book + Audio Online |
Series: | A First Book Of ... |
Parameters
Product code: | DOV839176 |
Composer: | Ravel, Maurice |
Arranger: | Dutkanicz, David |
No. of songs: | 29 |
Language: | English |
Size: | 21 x 28 cm |
ISBN: | 9780486839172 |
Weight: | 148 g |
Audio examples
Songlist (26)
- Musette from Le Tombeau de Couperin
- Malagueña from Rapsodie Espagnole
- Conversation of Beauty and the Beast from Mother Goose Suite
- Pantomime from Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2
- Menuet from Le Tombeau de Couperin
- Valse No. 8 from Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
- Sonatine from Mvt. II
- Interlude from Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 1
- Piano Trio from Mvt. I
- String Quartet from Mvt. I (opening)
- String Quartet from Mvt. III (opening)
- Valse No. 2 from Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
- Soupir from 3 Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
- Rigadoun from Le Tombeau de Couperin
- March from Mother Goose Suite
- Prélude à la Nuit from Rapsodie Espagnole
- Prelude from Le Tombeau de Couperin
- Danse Gracieuse et Legere de Daphne from Daphnis and Chloe (Ballet)
- Gaspard de la Nuit from Mvt. I
- Menuet, Post. (1904)
- Menuet Antique
- Valse No. 1 from Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
- Lyceion Dance from Daphnis and Chloe (Ballet)
- Piano Trio, Mvt. III (Passacaille)
- Little Tom Thumb from Mother Goose Suite
- Sonatine, Mvt. I
Product description
This book brings you the most famous melodies and themes from Maurice Ravel's compositions in a very easy piano arrangement. The publication includes a short biography of the composer and a brief introduction to each piece, including performance notes on how best to play them.
The book also includes a website address and a QR code where you can download MP3 recordings of all the pieces.
Joseph-Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) was a French composer of Swiss-Spanish origin. He is known as an impressionist composer, but his late works in particular bear strong traces of the emerging modernism, expressionism and neoclassicism.