The ballets of Maurice Ravel
Subtitle: creation and interpretation
By: Deborah Mawer.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937; Ballets -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Cultural and critical backdrop; title: Childhood fantasy and exoticism : Ma Mère l'Oye and L'Enfant; title: Greekness and myth in Daphnis et Chloé; title: Essays on the waltz I : Adélaïde ou le langage des fleurs (Valses nobles); title: Essays on the waltz II : La Valse and Epilogue; title: Neoclassical divertissements : Le Tombeau de Couperin and 'Fanfare' from L'Eventail de Jeanne; title: Spain, machines, and sexuality : Boléro; title: Conclusion : 'Danse générale'? Ravel's oeuvre as ballet.