A New Analytical Approach to the Musical Language of Ravel
A New Analytical Approach to the Musical Language of Ravel

Summary/Abstract: The help offered by Schenker's analysis into performing, as the musician affirmed, is recognized in performer's world, considering that his approach situated the analysis into performing. Even if Schenker has not taken into account in his analysis the French music, a wide range of Ravel's music characteristics demonstrate that it can be analysed using the theoretical model of the Austrian theorist. The prolongation's principles can by extended in order to adapt them to the post-romantic music using new criteria applied to the foreground through the complexity of musical language and without modifying the paradigm of the background mostly aligned to the Ursatz mode.

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