Reflections: The Piano Music of Maurice Ravel

by Paul Roberts

The piano music of Maurice Ravel is among the most thrilling, the most colorful, and, for pianists, the most challenging of the repertoire. This book is about how performers and listeners can discover it and relate to it - how it sounds and feels under the fingers and within the receptive imagination. But to write about those experiences, to explore the background, influences, and impulses behind Ravel's music, is to be engaged in a form of biography...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574672029
• ISBN13: 9781574672022
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Amadeus
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"