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The top line uses the pentatonic scale. [1] Play ⓘ Ma mère l'Oye (English: Mother Goose, literally "My Mother the Goose") is a suite by French composer Maurice Ravel. The piece was originally written as a five-movement piano duet in 1910. In 1911, Ravel orchestrated the work.
While conceived in a refined, accessible, and modest style, the various movements exhibit Ravel’s sophisticated use of “exotic” musical materials, including pentatonic scales (the black keys on the piano) and quartal harmonies (chords made of stacked fourths—not the usual thirds).
The top line uses the pentatonic scale. [1] Play ⓘ Ravel originally wrote Ma mère l'Oye as a piano duet for the Godebski children, Mimi and Jean, ages 6 and 7. Ravel dedicated this work for four hands to the children (just as he had dedicated an earlier work, Sonatine, to their parents).
Ma mère l’Oye is a piano piece that Maurice Ravel wrote originally as a duet on a single piano. The title is French for “Mother Goose”. The piano four hands version was arranged for piano solo by his friend Jacques Charlot in the same year that it was published.
Ravel Prélude (Ma Mère l Oye) (Ballet version) Bars 8–13 [B1] Bars 8–13 switch suddenly to octatonicism (Collection III), the music being underpinned by a pedal A. The note B, which is not part of the scale, is mostly treated as an appoggiatura, and momentarily forms part of an initial dominant 9th chord on A at the start of each bar. The ...
Apr 22, 2021 · 5 pieces for children turned into one of the most elegant orchestral suites: Ravel's Mother Goose Suite (Ma mère l’Oye). In this episode, after a bit of introduction, I'll dive into the first 2 movements: the Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty and Little Tom Thumb.
The Ravel Mother Goose suite (Ma Mere l'Oye) is a charmingly delicate and imaginative little suite of fairytale pieces. At first a four-hand piano suite, Maurice Ravel's orchestral ballet version made it well-known and popular.
