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The
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"Ravel, (Joseph-)Maurice
b. March 7, 1875, Ciboure, Fr. d. Dec. 28, 1937, Paris ..
French composer of Swiss-Basque descent, noted for his musical
craftsmanship and perfection of form and style in such works as Boléro
(1928), Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899; Pavane for a Dead
Princess), Rapsodie espagnole (1907), the ballet Daphnis et Chloé (first
performed 1912), and the opera L'Enfant et les sortilèges (1925; The Child
and the Enchantments).
Ravel was born in a village near Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Fr., of a Swiss
father and a Basque mother. ... the young Maurice received every
encouragement from his father. In 1889, at 14, he entered the Paris
Conservatoire, where he remained until 1905. During this period he
composed some of his best known works, including the Pavane pour une
infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess), the Sonatine for piano, and
the String Quartet.
Ravel's life was in the main uneventful. He never married, and, though
he enjoyed the society of a few chosen friends, he lived the life of a
semirecluse at his country retreat at Montfort-L'Amaury, in the forest of
Rambouillet, near Paris. He served in World War I for a short time as a
truck driver, he was discharged from the army in 1917.
For Ravel, music was a kind of ritual, having its own laws, to be
conducted behind high walls, sealed off from the outside world, and
impenetrable to unauthorized intruders. Igor Stravinsky compared
Ravel to "the most perfect of Swiss watchmakers,"
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Study of Ethnomusicology by Bruno Nettl |
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African American Music : A Philosophical
Look at African American Music in Society by
Nathan T. Davis, Ursula Broschke-Davis
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'The Voice of Egypt : Umm Kulthum, Arabic
Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century
(Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Virginia
Danielson
From the reviews: Umm Kulthum, the "voice of Egypt,"
was the most celebrated musical performer of the century
in the Arab world. More than twenty years after her
death, her devoted audience, drawn from all strata of
Arab society, still numbers in the millions. Thanks to
her skillful and pioneering use of mass media, her songs
still permeate the international airwaves. In the first
English-language biography of Umm Kulthum, Virginia
Danielson chronicles the life of a major musical figure
and the confluence of artistry, society, and creativity
that characterized her remarkable career.
Danielson examines the careful construction of Umm
Kulthum's phenomenal popularity and success in a society
that discouraged women from public performance. From
childhood, her mentors honed her exceptional abilities
to accord with Arab and Muslim practice, and as her
stature grew, she remained attentive to her audience and
the public reception of her work. Ultimately, she
created from local precendents and traditions her own
unique idiom and developed original song styles from
both populist and neo-classical inspirations. These were
enthusiastically received, heralded as crowning examples
of a new, yet authentically Arab-Egyptian, culture.
Danielson shows how Umm Kulthum's music and public
personality helped form popular culture and contributed
to the broader artistic, societal, and political forces
that surrounded her.
This richly descriptive account joins biography with
social theory to explore the impact of the individual
virtuoso on both music and society at large while
telling the compelling story of one of the most famous
musicians of all time.
"She is born again every morning in the heart of 120
million beings. In the East a day without Umm Kulthum
would have no color."--Omar Sharif
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Jasmine Rain Down : Song and Remembrance Among Syrian Jews
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melodies borrowed from the popular Middle Eastern Arab musical
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pizmonim as they have continued to be composed,
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tradition and a probing contribution to studies of the link
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Shelemay views the intersection of music, individual
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