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Mother Goose Suite Composed by Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937)

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1 Mother Goose Suite Composed by Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937)

2 Mother Goose Suite by Maurice Ravel Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty in the forest Tom Thumb Laideronnette, Empress of the Pagodas Conversation between Beauty and the Beast The Enchanted Garden

3 Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty in the forest A B C SectionInstrumentGraphic (A, B, C) 1Flute (low pitch) 2Flute (high pitch) 3Clarinet 4Flute (low pitch) 5Violins

4 Tom Thumb 1 2 3 1 2 3 41 2 31 2 3 4 51 2 3 1 2 3 41 2 31 2 3 4 51 2 3 GA BD Eb FG A B CD Eb FG A B C DEb F G

5 Composing 1: Creating a chorus of birds Link to bird songs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/birdsong.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/birdsong.shtml Collared Dove Blackbird Chaffinch

6 Short sound Repeated short sound Raspy sound

7 START END Toms Journey

8 Laideronnette, Empress of the Pagodas 1. introduction 3. glockenspiels and brass answered by flutes Repeating solo woodwind melodies with some xylophone notes Solo flute and piccolo melodies Unison melody with gongs Mainly xylophones and flutes

9 Learning how Javanese and Balinese gamelan influenced Pagodas www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/makingtra cks/gamelan.shtml http://www.sftsunami.org/bamboobali /hear_us.shtml

10 Performing a Balinese rindik piece - Tempung ketan Core melody parts (kotekan parts start here) CM 1 2 1 2 1 5 6 CM 2 2211221155666666 CM 1 1 6 1 6 1 5 CM 2 1166116611555555 Kotekan parts (Extension) lanang. 12.1.2 1 wadon6.5 6. 65. PENTATONIC SCALE: G A B D E 1 2 3 5 6 To hear whole piece click here

11 Composing a Dragon Dance Pentatonic scale: C D E G A Spi-tting out fire Wings out-stretched Scales on its back Dra-gon

12 Conversation between Beauty and the Beast The melody is played on clarinet The melody is played on contra-bassoon The music is flowing There is an Oom Cha accompaniment The melody is played at a low pitch A harp plays throughout this section The beginning of the melody is accompanied by 4 loud pizzicato notes A cymbal is heard twice Beauty Beast

13 Learning about the contra-bassoon A large, deep-toned instrument of the oboe family, also called double bassoon. Its tube, over 16 ft (5 m) long, is doubled upon itself four times. It was first made by Hans Schreiber of Berlin in 1620. http://www.bbc.co.uk/orch estras/guide/bassoon.shtml

14 Composing a piece called Beauty and the Beast Compose a piece that uses a similar structure as Ravels Beauty and the Beast i.e.: 1.Music that describes Beauty 2.Music that describes the Beast 3.Music that describes the Beast changing into a handsome prince

15 BEAUTYBEAST Mood Pitch Dynamics Silence Tempo Timbre

16 The Enchanted Garden

17 By Maurice Ravel

18 Sources of images: Maurice Ravel: http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/ravel.htmlhttp://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/ravel.html Image of Mother Goose: http://eclipse.rutgers.edu/goose/what/0.aspxhttp://eclipse.rutgers.edu/goose/what/0.aspx Images of birds: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/birdsong.shtmlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/birdsong.shtml Images of Tom Thumb: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/TTImages.htmhttp://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/TTImages.htm Images of Pagodas: http://www.photographersdirect.com/stockimages/p/pagoda.asp http://www.photographersdirect.com/stockimages/p/pagoda.asp Images of gamelan: http://www.sftsunami.org/bamboobali/music.shtmlhttp://www.sftsunami.org/bamboobali/music.shtml Chinese dragon: http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/chinese-dragon.htmlhttp://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/chinese-dragon.html Contrabassoon: http://www.dsokids.com/2001/dso.asp?PageID=157http://www.dsokids.com/2001/dso.asp?PageID=157 Enchanted garden: http://www.kew.org/http://www.kew.org/


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