Appreciation of the Piano Work Sonatine by Maurice Ravel

DOI

10.2991/ssehr-16.2016.324How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ravel; Sonatine; melody; playing style;

Abstract

This paper analyzes the piano work Sonatine by Maurice Ravel in terms of its melody, leading pitch interval, key tone and the material that forms climax. Through the analysis on such playing styles as polyphony imagination, speed explanation, pedal using and the meaning of dynamics, this paper aims to reveal its uniqueness and level so as to explain the relevance with playing. According to the author, the three movements with different characteristics create the different images of music. The interval, tone and figure are the same in minutia feature. While the melodic structure is unified and the playing style is both unique and intertextual.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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