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	Maurice Ravel, Bolero for guitar
		Boleros are also popular in Spain but they are radically different than the Latin-American counterpart.
		The Bolero is one of the best known works on the planet and unique in every way...recognizable after only a few bars.
		Ravel died of a brain tumor and some recent investigations by a British doctor indicate that he suffered from Alzheimer disease because "...
	www.mangore.com /bolero_ravel.html (342 words)

	Maurice Ravel biography - 8notes.com
		Ravel was born in Ciboure, France (near Biarritz, part of the French Basque region, bordering on Spain).
		Ravel commented that it was André Gédalge, his professor of counterpoint, was very important in the development of his skill as a composer.
		Maurice Ravel: Bolero Composed by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937).
	www.8notes.com /biographies/ravel.asp (1488 words)

	Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) - famous Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Classics hit collection and Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) ...
		Ravel wrote two operas, the first, described as a comédie-musicale, L'heure espagnole (The Spanish Clock) and the second, with a libretto by Colette, the imaginative L'enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Enchantments), in which the naughty child is punished when furniture and animals assume personalities of their own.
		Ravel wrote two piano concertos, the first, completed in 1930, for the left hand only, commissioned by the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm in the war, and the second, completed in 1931, for two hands.
		Ravel's chamber music includes the evocative nostalgia of the Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet, a violin sonata with a jazz-style blues movement, a piano trio and a string quartet.
	www.naxos.com /composerinfo/849.htm (841 words)

	Spanish BOLERO page. Streetswings Dance History archives
		The Bolero was a dance far more noble, modest, and restrained as well as resembling but being shorter than the Fandango (which the Boléro replaced in popularity), and is executed by two persons (originally a single female).
		The great difficulty of this dance consists in resuming the part called the paseo, which is immediately after the first part of the tune in the prelude of the accompaniment, which precedes the estribillo.
		The American Bolero: was made popular in the Unted States when French composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) wrote his composition in 1928 for Ida Rubenstein which was choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska.
	www.streetswing.com /histmain/z3bolro.htm (945 words)

	Background Sound -- Vienna Online July 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bolero was written by Maurice Ravel as a ballet to accompany physical activity, rather than to listen to.
		Bolero is defined as a lively Spanish Dance but Ravel's version was in no way a Spanish Bolero.
		Ravel's Bolero is basically built upon two tunes repeated about eighteen times in the piece.
	www.geocities.com /viennaonline/bgsound/bgsound0701.html (349 words)

	BTS » Resources » Articles » Boléro Unravelled
		That high, lonely trombone solos should appear in Ravel's music is surprising when you consider that the French didn't take to the alto trombone (or the bass for that matter) until relatively recently.
		Ravel certainly heard a little jazz during these years but did not explore it seriously until he made the acquaintance of a young trombone player called Léo Vauchant in 1924.
		Ravel had despaired of writing down all the inflexions which a jazz player would put into his melody and at Vauchant's suggestion eventually left it with hardly any expression marks at all, simply marking the solo sostenuto.
	www.trombone-society.org.uk /bolero.htm (577 words)

	Boléro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Before Boléro Ravel had composed as well large scale ballets (such as Daphnis et Chloé, composed for the Ballets Russes 1909–1912), suites for the ballet (such as the second orchestral version of Ma Mère l'Oye, 1912), and one-movement dance pieces (such as La Valse, 1906-1920).
		Apart from such compositions intended for a staged dance performance, Ravel had demonstrated an interest in composing re-styled dances, from his earliest successes (the 1895 Menuet and the 1899 Pavane) to his more mature works like the Tombeau de Couperin (which takes the format of a dance suite).
		Maurice Ravel was in all likelihood suffering from Alzheimer's disease at the time of his composition of Boléro, as deduced by scientists after they found evidence of 'perseverance', a characteristic feature of patients with Alzheimer's, in Boléro, which is the repetitive notes we hear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bolero_(Ravel) (866 words)

	Ravel Conducts Ravel
		Ravel once described Boléro as "a 17 minute crescendo," surprising as his own recording takes just 16:10, but still is longer than any other except Freitas.
		Ravel's Piano Concerto in G was written for Marguerite Long who premiered it in Paris January 14, 1932 and made this recording shortly thereafter.
		Although it has been said that Ravel was not a very good conductor, he manages to handle the tempo changes and accents of the music admirably.
	classicalcdreview.com /bolero.htm (726 words)

	Bolero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bolero is a 3/4 dance that originated in Spain in the late 18th century, a combination of the contradanza and the sevillana
		The modern Cuban bolero song tradition originated in Santiago in the 19th century.
		Another kind of Bolero is the American Style ballroom dance popular in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bolero (732 words)

	NPR : Bolero's Industrious Nature
		Morning Edition, July 15, 2004 · Bolero is perhaps most famous as the love theme for Dudley Moore and Bo Derek in the 1979 movie 10.
		Ravel, whose roots were in the Basque country on the French-Spanish border, originally called the piece Fandango.
		As romantic as it may seem, Ravel said the pulsing, rhythmic composition was inspired by one of the factories he had visited with his father, who was an engineer.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=3335230 (313 words)

	Mike's Comment of the Week - RAVEL'S BOLERO AND PSYCHOSIS
		In recent years, Bolero was featured in the movie "10" (1979) as an accompaniment to Bo Derek's lovemaking, as well as being utilized by Torvill and Dean, the renowned British ice dancing couple, in the mid-1980's.
		The throbbing rhythm of the orchestral piece is said to be an example of "musical perseveration," indicating that Ravel was in the early stages of dementia, according to Dr. Eva Cybulska, a psychiatrist in Dartford, England.
		In the case of Bolero, the same musical phrase is repeated 18 times without variation, although the differences in orchestration demonstrate the brilliance of the composer.
	www.gasdetection.com /MDS/m022398.html (378 words)

	Ravel's Bolero
		Ravel's Bolero is a one-movement orchestral piece originally composed as a ballet.
		Ravel purported to be somewhat embarrassed that a composition which was, in his words, "without music", should become so well known.
		Apparently, at the premiere of the ballet, a woman declared that Ravel was mad.
	herso.freeservers.com /av-bolero.html (401 words)

	RAVEL Bolero (Various versions; BMG/RCA) - INKPOT
		Pachelbel's Canon and Ravel's Bolero are but two of the several anthologies which BMG (aka RCA Red Seal) have released featuring myriad versions of the same work, rendered on different media.
		Bolero is not, of course, the hardest piece of music to edit, being the same two tunes repeated over and over.
		There are far better renditions of the Bolero to be had elsewhere, and putting onself through seventy-something minutes of the same two sixteen-bar phrase in various contortions ad nauseam smacks just too much of masochism.
	inkpot.com /classical/bolero_bmg.html (1127 words)

	BOLERO MAURICE RAVEL CLIP ON-LINE
		El âbolero de Ravelâ i la convergÃ¨ncia entre pins pinyoners de climes mediterranis a AmÃ¨rica i Europa per Daniel PiÃ±ero, Dep.
		The âBolero de Ravelâ and convergence of pinyon pines in mediterranian climates in America and Europe.
		Maurice Ravel est n× le 7 mars 1875 à Ciboure (près de Biarritz).
	www.edu-negev.gov.il /tapuz/motytp/atar/scripta/games/boleroclip.htm (272 words)

	Bolero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Although Ravel was a frenchman to the world, his birth in the Basses-Pyrenees of a Basque mother and
		Bolero, however, is in no way a serious attempt at Spanish dance music.
		Ravel's Bolero is basically built upon a two part musical theme which is repeated about eighteen times
	www.willamette.edu /~rloftus/jfilm/ravelsbolero.html (365 words)

	Jean Martinon and The Orchestre de Paris - Ravel's Boléro/Daphnis et Chloé/La Valse - EMI Classics Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Part of the charm of Boléro is following Ravel’s insistence that the tempo never change from beginning to end; it doesn’t need to change to evoke sensual imagery because the music itself embodies carnality.
		The performance has an obviousness about it; that is, Martinon conducts in such a way as to make each succeeding variation of the theme sound logically in its proper place in soundspace and time with regard to every other thematic variation.
		Ravel scored three scenes from the Greek story (their love, Chloé’s abduction, and her return to Daphnis).
	www.musictap.net /Reviews/MartinonJeanRavelBoleroDVDA.html (713 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - 'Bolero' by Maurice Ravel - A534115
		That's the challenge given to the snare drummer in Maurice Ravel's best-known composition, Boléro.
		At the first performance, one woman in the audience commented about Ravel, 'the man is mad'.
		Ravel's reply was 'only she realised the truth!'.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A534115 (494 words)

	Ravel: Orchestral Works - Paavo Jarvi
		Ravel loved the techniques of composition for their own sake, and he embraced them in the spirit of invention more than of expression.
		Ravel was emotionally and physically deteriorating during WWI and composing had been impossible for him for several years.
		Ravel's always-refined writing calls for a sleekness that the Cincinnatians easily handle, and the soloists in the orchestra (notably flutist Randolph Bowman and hornist Thomas Sherwood) capture Ravel's glinting, distant beauty.
	www.home.earthlink.net /~sandrikasaw/ravel.html (3357 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ravel: Boléro/Rapsode Espagnole...: Music: Maurice Ravel,Daniel Barenboim,Donald Peck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This disc is a collection of Some of Ravel's best and most famous works for orcestra: Suite no. 2 of Daphnis et Chloe, Rhapsodie Espagnole, Pavane, Alborada del Gracioso, and, of course, Bolero.
		The slow section is wonderfully melancholic and the ending makes one fully aware as to why the piece has the title it does.
		Ravel supposedly said once, "I have written one masterpiece, Bolero, only it contains no music." The piece is a continuous repetition of two melodies, one diatonic, one not, gradually growing louder and louder and more fully instrumentated till the ending.
	www.amazon.ca /Ravel-Rapsode-Espagnole-Daniel-Barenboim/dp/B000005E8A (612 words)

	Amazon.com: Ravel: Boléro: Music: Maurice Ravel,Charles Dutoit,Montréal Symphony Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		"Ravel was extremely surprised at the mass success of "Bolro" `They're going to turn it into another "Madelon", he said, rather crossly; and deep down he felt that the obsessive, musico-sexual element in the piece was probably behind its enormous popularity.
		Ravel admitted that every composer wanted to write a very good waltz, but that it was very difficult.
		The first track is of course the famous Bolero, with its hypnotic, singular theme that is expanded into a climatic crescendo which is overtly sexual, primal and sensuous.
	www.amazon.com /Ravel-Bol%C3%A9ro-Maurice/dp/B00002MXMX (1766 words)

	Orchestral Excerpts: Ravel - Bolero
		Most of us cannot practice Bolero very many times without exhaustion; mental practice ("pretend practice") is almost as good, and the first 8 bars could be rehearsed down an octave.
		Practice Bolero at a wide variety of tempos so that you are prepared for anything.
		Check pitches with a tuner, as this is an uncommon scale and an unusual range is involved.
	www.trombone.org /orchexcerpts/exc-bolero.asp (455 words)

	SACD Review: Minnesota Orchestra (Skrowaczewski) - ‘Ravel: Bolero and Assorted Orchestral Works’
		Ravel himself described the piece as “lasting seventeen minutes and consisting of ‘orchestral tissue without music’ — of one long, very gradual crescendo” With such a clear-cut directive, is it possible that almost every recording made of this ‘greatest hit’ is wrong?
		It’s hard to tell from the Munch if it is an intentionally revised view of the work, or if it is just the declining grasp of the aged conductor which causes the performance to run over two minutes longer than the earlier one; it certainly lacks something in intensity compared to the Boston recording.
		For what it’s worth, the remainder of that Sony SACD is stereo-only versions of Boulez’ quadraphonic Ravel recordings with the New York Philharmonic, which have subsequently been reissued in a multi-channel release, which helps spread out the echoey acoustics of Manhattan Center.
	www.highfidelityreview.com /reviews/review.asp?reviewnumber=16350035 (2710 words)

	Ravel - Bolero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ravel took many of his piano works and scored them for orchestra.
		In 1919 he took four of the pieces from the Tombeau and orchestrated them.
		You can hear Ravel's genius as an orchestrator.
	www.wwnorton.com /classical/covers/48163.htm (52 words)

	Maurice Ravel: Bolero
		Short history: originally composed as ballet score when Ravel wasn't able to orchestrated Albeniz' Iberia piano work (glad that happened.) It was a success, despise Ravel not being too fond of the piece (something absolutely awkward
		However, if I had to play pizzicato on the strings I think I would be the major cause for the death of each and everyone of the orchestra members and possibly the front row of the audience.
		Each time they come to a ledge or pause in the staircase they pass an object to the next group to go up the stairs.
	www.youngcomposers.com /forum/maurice-ravel-bolero-2171.html (922 words)

	Rolling Stone : Maurice Ravel : Discography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ravel: Bolero; La valse; Rapsodie espagnole; Alborada del Gracioso; Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2 [Great Performances]
		Ravel: Shéhérazade / Tombeau / Pavane; Debussy: Danses / Ballades de Villon
		Ravel: Bolero; Rapsodie espagnole / Debussy: La mer; Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune / Saint-Saens: "Organ" Symphony
	www.rollingstone.com /artists/mauriceravel/discography (363 words)

	Ravel's 'Bolero' considered on the official website of writer, Laura Hird
		Ravel's 'Bolero' considered on the official website of writer, Laura Hird
		In recalling that time I saw myself, in my mind's eye, a five year old, laid on a couch in a doctor's surgery.
		This ‘Bolero’ was music to me not a name; it relaxed me, soothing, preparing me for stitches or amputation.
	www.laurahird.com /bestrecords/bolero.html (718 words)

	Amazon.com: Ravel: Boléro: Music: Maurice Ravel,Arthur Fiedler,Charles Münch,Eduardo Mata,Sergey Koussevitzky,Boston ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		If you're a fan of Bolero's monster conclusion, this is an extreme dissapointment because the performer does weird things with the synthesizer that make the work (in my opinion) sound like Ravel himself would hate hearing it.
		If you're a fan of Ravel, 20th century orchestral music, or just a music historian, you should not pass this up; I don't know that some of these recordings are available anywhere else.
		As a Bolero fanatic I love this new CD and am sure that any lover of Ravel and his Bolero will agree.
	www.amazon.com /Ravel-Bol%C3%A9ro-Maurice/dp/B00004TCP7 (2108 words)

	Maurice Ravel: Download MP3s
		An Introduction to Ravel: Bolero & Ma MÃ¨re L'oye
		repin / nagano - lalo / chausson / ravel
		Bolero rhythm Part 2: an extended variation of Part 1
	www.streamwaves.com /mauriceravel/artists/972/summary.htm (123 words)

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