Integrating Incompatibilities: Melodic, Harmonic, and Formal Dissonance in Ravel's Duo and Violin Sonata

Beavers, Jennifer P.

doi:10.2979/inditheorevi.32.2.04

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“…I extend this to also include the chameleonlike treatment of the piano in particular, in which Ravel disguises a real solo piano throughout much of the exposition and development, leaving us to wonder: what kind of piano will be revealed to us in the recapitulation? [5.9] Ravel's penchant for playing with formal expectations is well documented (Beavers 2016, Heinzelmann 2011, Kaminsky 2011a. The Concerto in G Major is no exception.…”

Section: Transformation and Transcendencementioning

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Ravel’s Sound

Beavers

2021

MTO

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Ravel’s interwar compositions and transcriptions reveal a sophisticated engagement with timbre and orchestration. Of interest is the way he uses timbre to connect and conceal passages in his music. In this article, I look at the way Ravel manipulates instrumental timbre to create sonic illusions that transform expectations, mark the form, and create meaning. I examine how he uses instrumental groupings to create distinct or blended auditory events, which I relate to musical structure. Using an aurally based analytical approach, I develop these descriptions of timbre and auditory scenes to interpret ways in which different timbre-spaces function. Through techniques such as timbral transformations, magical effects, and timbre and contour fusion, I examine the ways in which Ravel conjures sound objects in his music that are imaginary, transformative, or illusory.

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Section: Transformation and Transcendencementioning

confidence: 99%

Ravel’s Sound

Beavers

2021

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Radically Inconspicuous Absence: Truncated Sonata Forms in Interwar Paris

Blättler

2023

Music Theory Spectrum

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This article identifies a set of sonata-form movements written in interwar Paris that do not recapitulate their secondary theme and yet end simply in major rather than performing cataclysm or transgression. It argues that their ability to leave sonata-form conventions unfulfilled is a consequence of how these pieces make the primary-theme reprise a site of resolved structural tension, not of the theme-and-key mechanisms of sonata form but rather of processes independent from sonata-form logic. These movements are also analyzed as exhibiting ironic troping; their juxtaposition of distinct attitudes toward sonata form negotiates a relationship between the interwar era and its compositional inheritances.

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Integrating Incompatibilities: Melodic, Harmonic, and Formal Dissonance in Ravel's Duo and Violin Sonata

Cited by 2 publications

References 24 publications

Ravel’s Sound

Ravel’s Sound

Radically Inconspicuous Absence: Truncated Sonata Forms in Interwar Paris

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