El músico francés Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) presentó deterioro neurológico progresivo caracterizado por amnesia, afasia, apraxia, amusia y alexia que se inició a los 57 años, cinco antes de su ...muerte. Se le practicó lo que se conocía entonces como craneotomía exploratoria y falleció como consecuencia de ello. Hay múltiples publicaciones en las cuales su condición neurológica ha sido evaluada para intentar dilucidar qué enfermedad presentó. Se han considerado demencia tipo Alzheimer, enfermedad de Pick, afasia primaria progresiva, degeneración corticobasal o secuelas de trauma craneoencefálico, ya que tuvo un accidente automovilístico en 1932. Dado que no se practicó autopsia, no se ha podido confirmar el diagnóstico exacto. Se hace una revisión de la literatura y aportes originales sobre la condición neurológica y el impacto psicológico que tuvo en este gran genio musical. PALABRAS CLAVE Demencia; Historia; Música; Neurocirugía; Neurología The renowned French composer and musician, Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) exhibited a perplexing case of progressive degenerative neurological symptoms, namely amnesia, aphasia, apraxia, amusia, and alexia. The symptoms started when Ravel was only fairly young, at 57, five years prior to his death in 1937. He was surgically intervened in what was known then as an exploratory craniotomy and passed away. There are a number of publications in which his life and known medical history were dissected and analyzed in an attempt to diagnose the ailment that Ravel suffered. Many diagnoses have been considered, among them Alzheimer's disease, Pick Disease, primary progressive aphasia, corticobasal degeneration, and complications of head injury following a car crash in 1932. Since an autopsy was not performed, an exact diagnosis is rather unlikely, and no one has been able to confirm or deny any of the aforementioned hypotheses. The authors conducted an extensive revision of existent literature and propose some original ideas regarding Ravel's neurological condition, mainly the psychological impact of Ravel's life and experiences and the way they may have influenced his musical genius. KEYWORDS Dementia; History; Music; Neurology; Neurosurgery
Esta nota se vale de un cuaderno inédito de apuntes redactados por el valenciano Eduardo López-Chávarri, compositor, educador, escritor y musicólogo, junto con artículos periodísticos de noviembre de ...1928 y después sobre el encuentro de Maurice Ravel con Valencia. Ravel llegó a Valencia el 16 noviembre y permaneció hasta el día 18, dando un concierto la noche del 17. Estos documentos dan fe de la importancia en la historia cultural de la ciudad de la visita del compositor francés, entonces el más prestigioso de Europa. El mismo Ravel estimó su estancia en Valencia como lo mejor de su extenso giro por la Península.
Ravel the Decadent offers a bold new perspective on the music of Maurice Ravel by locating its aesthetic origins in the French Decadence and demonstrating this influence across the length of his ...oeuvre. The notions of memory, sublimation, and desire are invoked to delineate the Decadent profile of this music.
Maurice Ravel Zank, Stephen
2005, 20130524, 2004, 2013-05-24
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Maurice Ravel: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary ...sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer and theorist.
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A particular subset of Ravel's output features a phrase‐rhythmic technique wherein tonal and thematic returns are accompanied by surprisingly asymmetrical or ambiguous phrase rhythm. This ...defies both generic conventions linking thematic reprise and tonal closure to relatively stable phrase rhythm and specific expectations created by these works’ formal processes, and contrasts with trajectories moving from phrase‐rhythmic instability to stability which Ravel deploys in other works. The set of pieces which features this technique includes À la manière de … Chabrier, the Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn, pieces from Le Tombeau de Couperin, the last of the Valses nobles et sentimentales, and the ‘Blues’ movement from the Violin Sonata. This study notes how themes of loss and distance connect these pieces, allowing for the phrase‐rhythmic technique to be bound up with interpretative implications which can enhance our understanding of how phrase rhythm can carry expressive freight.
Composers' libraries, as collections of texts, have undergone few investigations, hence leading to a lack of recognition of their intellectual and hermeneutic values in musicology. However, since the ...19th century, because of the development of musicology and the appropriation of musical criticism by musicians, the composer is no longer just a craftsman but a thinker of his art: he becomes an intellectual. An examination of the library of Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931) and his writings altogether, makes it possible to clarify an intellectual dynamic peculiar to this composer, and more precisely to reveal the primordial epic dimension of the library, which is thus at the origin of a cross-referenced reflection on the literary epic and what d'Indy calls "the musical epic".
El músico francés Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) presentó deterioro neurológico progresivo caracterizado por amnesia, afasia, apraxia, amusia y alexia que se inició a los 57 años, cinco antes de su ...muerte. Se le practicó lo que se conocía entonces como craneotomía exploratoria y falleció como consecuencia de ello. Hay múltiples publicaciones en las cuales su condición neurológica ha sido evaluada para intentar dilucidar qué enfermedad presentó. Se han considerado demenciatipo Alzheimer, enfermedad de Pick, afasia primaria progresiva, degeneración corticobasal o secuelas de trauma craneoencefálico, ya que tuvo un accidente automovilístico en 1932. Dado que no se practicó autopsia, no se ha podido confirmar el diagnóstico exacto. Se hace una revisión de la literatura y aportes originales sobre la condición neurológica y el impacto psicológico que tuvo en este gran genio musical.
Upon hearing Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin in 1918 Jean Roger-Ducasse was disturbed by the incongruity between each movement's music and its dedication to a fallen soldier. Similarly, historians ...have noted the ‘strangeness’ of Frontispiece and La Valse, which Ravel wrote after his war service and his mother's death in 1917. When taken together, these instances of ‘strange’ music – written during an especially emotionally trying period of Ravel's life – lead to questions concerning relationships between Ravel's music and traumatic expression. Although Carolyn Abbate and Michael Puri have suggested that these pieces can be understood as expressions of loss, no one has yet attempted to address how they might illuminate Ravel's trauma within the context of conceptions of trauma in interwar France. In this article I suggest that Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin, Frontispice and La Valse are musical performances of his traumatic responses to the war and his mother's death. I place primary and archival sources such as letters and diaries of Ravel and his peers in dialogue with early twentieth-century French sources in psychology and medicine to determine how Ravel understood trauma. Utilizing Abraham and Torok's theorizations of traumatic grief, I read Ravel's compositions as bearing ‘magic words’ – indirect articulations of trauma that manifest when individuals cannot openly voice their trauma. By studying these pieces in the context of modernist musical mourning traditions in World War I-era France, I suggest that Ravel's post-war compositions demonstrate his resistance to nationalistic norms requiring the suppression of trauma for the war effort.
Portret van een veelzijdig componist.
‘De meester van de klinkende maskers’, zo karakteriseerde de muziekfilosoof Theodor Adorno ooit Maurice Ravel. Als geen ander kan Ravel feilloos een muzikaal ...karakter oproepen, waarachter hij zich vervolgens behaaglijk verschanst. Zo spat de Spaanse vurigheid van het blad in Rapsodie espagnole, terwijl de onderkoelde barok-imitatie in Le tombeau de Couperin de luisteraar koude rillingen bezorgt. En wie zou denken dat de rokerige jazzy-atmosfeer van het Pianoconcerto en de geoliede orkestmachine van de Boléro uit het brein van dezelfde componist komen? Dit boek biedt een kennismaking met een componist die zich niet gemakkelijk laat kennen. De kroniek van leven en werk en de vijf thematische hoofdstukken willen de luisteraar niet alleen iets laten begrijpen. Bovenal wil dit boek smaak geven in Ravels muziek, die klinkende maskers waarop men maar niet uitgekeken raakt.
Maurice Ravel: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary ...sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer and theorist.
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