Mother Goose Suite Composed by Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937)
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Transcript of Mother Goose Suite Composed by Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937)
Mother Goose Suite
Composed by Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937)
Mother Goose Suite by Maurice Ravel
Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty in the forest
Tom Thumb Laideronnette,
Empress of the Pagodas
Conversation between Beauty and the Beast
The Enchanted Garden
Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty in the forest
A
B
C
Section
Instrument Graphic (A, B, C)
1 Flute (low pitch)
2 Flute (high pitch)
3 Clarinet
4 Flute (low pitch)
5 Violins
Tom Thumb
1 2 3
1 2 3
1 2 3 4
1 2 3
1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3
1 2 3
1 2 3 1 2 3 4
1 2 3
1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3
GA B D Eb F G A B C D Eb F G A B C D Eb F G
Composing 1: Creating a chorus of birds
Link to bird songs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/birdsong.shtml
Collared Dove
Blackbird
Chaffinch
Short sound
Repeated short sound
Raspy sound
STARTEND
Tom’s Journey
Laideronnette, Empress of the Pagodas
1. introduction
3. glockenspiels and brass answered by flutes Repeating
solo woodwind melodies with some xylophone notes
Solo flute and piccolo melodies
Unison melody with gongs Mainly xylophones and flutes
Learning how Javanese and Balinese gamelan influenced
‘Pagodas’
www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/makingtracks/gamelan.shtml
http://www.sftsunami.org/bamboobali/hear_us.shtml
Performing a Balinese rindik piece - Tempung ketan
Core melody parts (kotekan parts start here)
CM1
2 1 2 1 5 6
CM2
2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6
CM1
1 6 1 6 1 5
CM2
1 1 6 6 1 1 6 6 1 1 5 5 5 5 5 5
Kotekan parts (Extension)
lanang . 1 2 . 1 . 2 1
wadon 6 . 5 6 . 6 5 .
PENTATONIC SCALE: G A B D E 1 2 3 5 6
To hear whole piece click here
Composing a Dragon
Dance
Pentatonic scale:
C D E G A
Spi-tting out fire
Wings out-stretched
Scales on it’s back
Dra-gon Dra-gon
Conversation between Beauty and the Beast
The melody is played on clarinet
The melody is played on contra-bassoon
The music is flowing
There is an Oom Cha accompaniment
The melody is played at a low pitch
A harp plays throughout this section
The beginning of the melody is accompanied by 4 loud pizzicato notes
A cymbal is heard twice
Beauty
Beast
Learning about the contra-bassoon
A large, deep-toned instrument of the oboe family, also called double bassoon. Its tube, over 16 ft (5 m) long, is doubled upon itself four times. It was first made by Hans Schreiber of Berlin in 1620. http://www.bbc.co.uk/orchestras/guide/bassoon.shtml
Composing a piece called Beauty and the Beast
Compose a piece that uses a similar structure as Ravel’s Beauty and the Beast i.e.:
1. Music that describes Beauty
2. Music that describes the Beast
3. Music that describes the Beast changing into a handsome prince
BEAUTY BEAST
Mood
Pitch
Dynamics
Silence
Tempo
Timbre
The Enchanted Garden
The Enchanted
Garden
By Maurice Ravel
Sources of images:
Maurice Ravel: http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/ravel.html Image of Mother Goose: http://eclipse.rutgers.edu/goose/what/0.aspx Images of birds: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/birdsong.shtml Images of Tom Thumb: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/TTImages.htm Images of Pagodas:
http://www.photographersdirect.com/stockimages/p/pagoda.asp Images of gamelan: http://www.sftsunami.org/bamboobali/music.shtml Chinese dragon: http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/chinese-dragon.html Contrabassoon: http://www.dsokids.com/2001/dso.asp?PageID=157 Enchanted garden: http://www.kew.org/