Original: Maurice Ravel used a pentatonic scale as the basis for a melody in '' Passacaille '' , the third movement of his Piano Trio , and as a pastiche of Chinese music in '' Laideronette , Emperatrice des Pagodes '' , a movement from his Ma Mère l'Oye ( Mother Goose ) .
Simplified: Maurice Ravel used it to write music which sounded Chinese , and in his Mother Goose suite ( Ma Mère l'Oye ) which sounds like a fairy tale .