The Cambridge Companion to Ravel

Contents

• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Chronology of Ravel's life and career
• Note on the text
• Introduction Deborah Mawer
• Part I . Cultural and Aesthetic:
• 1. History and homage Barbara L. Kelly
• 2. Evocations of exoticism Robert Orledge
• 3. Musical objects and machines Deborah Mawer
• Part II . Musical Explorations:
• 4. Ravel and the piano Roy Howat
• 5. Harmony in the chamber music Mark DeVoto
• 6. Ravel and the orchestra Michael Russ
• 7. Ballet and the apotheosis of the dance Deborah Mawer
• 8. Vocal music and the lures of exoticism and irony Peter Kaminsky
• 9. Ravel's operatic spectacles: L'Heure and L'Enfant Richard Langham Smith
• Part III . Performance and Reception:
• 10. Performing Ravel: style and practice in early recordings Ronald Woodley
• 11. Ravel and the twentieth century Roger Nichols
• Appendix: Early reception of Ravel's music (1899-1939) Roger Nichols and Deborah Mawer
• Notes
• Select bibliography
• Index of names and works.