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The music of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), beloved by musicians and
audiences since its debut, has been a difficult topic for scholars.
The traditional stylistic categories of impressionism, symbolism,
and neoclassicism, while relevant, have offered too little purchase
on this fascinating but enigmatic work. In Ravel the Decadent,
author Michael Puri provides an innovative and productive solution
by locating the aesthetic origins of this music in the French
Decadence and demonstrating the extension of this influence across
the length of his oeuvre. From an array of Decadent topics Puri
selects three--memory, sublimation, and desire--and uses them to
delineate the content of this music, pinpoint its overlap with
contemporary cultural discourse, and link it to its biographical
context, as well as to create new methods altogether for the
analysis and interpretation of music.
Collection of critical and analytical scholarly essays on the music of Ravel by prominent scholars. Unmasking Ravel: New Perspectives on the Music fills a unique place in Ravel studies by combining critical interpretation and analytical focus. From the premiere of his works up to the present, Ravel has been associated with masks and the related notions of artifice and imposture. This has led scholars to perceive a lack of depth in his music and, consequently, to discourage investigation of his musical language. This volume balances and interweavesthese modes of inquiry. Part 1, "Orientations and Influences," illuminates the sometimes contradictory aesthetic, biographical, and literary strands comprising Ravel's artistry and our understanding of it. Part 2, "Analytical Case Studies," engages representative works from Ravel's major genres using a variety of methodologies, focusing on structural process and his complex relation to stylistic convention. Part 3, "Interdisciplinary Studies," integratesmusical analysis and art criticism, semiotics, and psychoanalysis in creating novel methodologies. Contributors include prominent scholars of Ravel's and fin-de-siecle music: Elliott Antokoletz, Gurminder Bhogal, Sigrun B. Heinzelmann, Volker Helbing, Steven Huebner, Peter Kaminsky, Barbara Kelly, David Korevaar, Daphne Leong, Michael Puri, and Lauri Suurpaa. Peter Kaminsky is Professor of Music at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
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