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Ravel, Maurice : Ma mère l'oye (pour piano à 4 mains)

Work Overview

Music ID : 1453
Composition Year：1908　
Instrumentation：Piano Ensemble　
Genre：pieces
Total Playing Time：15 min 00 sec
Copyright：Public Domain
Original/Related Work： Ravel, Maurice 《Ma mère l'oye》
pieces
Piano Ensemble
1 piano 4 hands

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Author : Wada, Mayuko

Last Updated: June 1, 2007
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

A collection of five short pieces based on fairy tales, written as a piano duet for the two children of the Godowsky couple, with whom Ravel was close.

In composing this suite, Ravel referenced children's stories by three authors: Charles Perrault (1628–1703), Countess Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy (1650–1705), and Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711–1780). The title is taken from Perrault's work Histoires ou Contes du temps passé avec des moralités (1697), commonly known as Contes de ma mère l'Oye (meaning "Mother Goose Tales" in French).

Although composed for children and thus technically accessible, Ravel's unique idiom and individuality are preserved in a refined manner.

This work was later orchestrated by Ravel and further adapted into a ballet, with the addition of two pieces: "Danse du rouet" (Spinning Wheel Dance) and "Interlude".

1. Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty / "Pavane de la belle au bois dormant"

A minor, slow.

2. Tom Thumb / "Petit Poucet"

C minor, very moderately.

Tom Thumb was surprised because the breadcrumbs he scattered as a trail in the forest had been eaten by birds on his way back.

3. Little Ugly One, Empress of the Pagodas / "Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes"

F-sharp major, at a march tempo.

When she undresses and takes a bath, the dolls begin to play instruments made of walnuts and almonds and sing.

4. Conversations of Beauty and the Beast / "Les entretiens de la belle et la bete"

F major, at a very moderate waltz tempo.

A love story between a beast, ugly in appearance but beautiful in heart, and a beauty.

5. The Fairy Garden / "La jardin féerique"

C major, slow and solemn.

Writer: Wada, Mayuko

Movements (5)

"Pavane de la belle au bois dormant"

Key: a-moll  Total Performance Time: 1 min 30 sec 

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"Petit Poucet"

Key: c-moll  Total Performance Time: 3 min 00 sec 

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"Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes"

Key: Fis-Dur  Total Performance Time: 3 min 00 sec 

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"Les entretiens de la belle et la bête"

Key: F-Dur  Total Performance Time: 4 min 00 sec 

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"La jardin féerique"

Key: C-Dur  Total Performance Time: 3 min 30 sec 

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