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Ravel's "bolero" Composer Techniques

Posted on:2012-05-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D L CaiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205330335982187Subject:Music
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"Bolero," the original name for the Spanish dance music, usually with four triple time, slightly faster speed to beat rhythm with castanets. Formally, the principal part, the middle form the Ministry and the recapitulation. Ravel borrowed "Bolero" in the title, made a free dance "Bolero." The song is by the famous Ravel dancer Ida Rubenstein commissioned for ? It is the last works of Ravel, is one of the best works, while the twentieth century a French symphonic music masterpiece. Bolero is a widely circulated work, the nature of their music and dance the same name are not the same, but the melody is indeed very strong Spanish flavor, like a folk tune approachable. Later became a folk melody is really widespread, resulting in his later years in Morocco to hear Ravel humming this tune when the local population, suddenly moved to shed tears."Bolero," Ravel works can be said to be the pinnacle of his full confidence in this song. Ravel in the comments when this work yourself once said: "It is a very modern dance movement, melody, harmony and rhythm of the complete reunification of the rhythm kept by the drum stand out, the only changing factor is the gradually increase to the orchestral performance. "Since the creation of Ravel more complex techniques, the paper decided to select the "Bolero" as a starting point for research, combined with social context, tracing the origin of the formation of Ravel's style through the analysis of ontology, spy on the art of the composer's own style the pursuit of the ideals and aesthetics, the focus of work composition techniques.Bolero by studying the compositional techniques, focusing on fundamental analysis to analyze the Bolero as the style of Ravel's composition techniques and orchestration as the focus of the analysis. Not difficult to find through research, the current Borel compositional techniques for the analysis of both the main rhythm, pitch and other aspects of analysis, the analysis for the little adapter, the authors hope that through the analysis of the weak links start to fill this research blank.
Keywords/Search Tags:Bolero, Ravel, orchestration, composition techniques
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