Collection of more than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrates travel, adventure and the many real and metaphorical journeys each of us take in the course of our lives. Works by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Service, Bliss Carma...
Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Full, authoritative scores of 3 enormously popular works by the great French composer: Rapsodie Espagnole (1908), Ravel's first entirely orchestral composition; "The Mother Goose Suite," a collection of children's pieces based on 5 fairy tal...
Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Influenced by the elegant 18th-century harpsichord works of Couperin, Rameau and Scarlatti, Le Tombeau de Couperin consists of "Prelude," "Forlane," "Menuet," and "Rigaudon." The uninterrupted 8 waltzes of Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, orchestrat...
Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Among the most popular composers of the 20th century, Ravel is loved by audiences and assiduously studied by musicians and music scholars. His masterpiece La Valse ranks among his most performed works and offers a supreme example of his comp...
Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Ravel's greatest songs and song cycles — among them Sheherazade, Five Greek Folk Songs, and Three Poems by Stephane Mallarme — edited and introduced by the world's leading Ravel scholar, Arbie Orenstein. Reprinted from auth...
Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Commissioned by Diaghilev for the Ballet Russes, Ravel's orchestral masterpiece offers a rich musical setting of a Greek fable by Longus. This 20th-century classic displays the composer's genius for transmuting a traditional musical idiom in...
Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Composed for Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes, Daphnis and Chloé was drawn from an ancient Greek fable. Ravel announced his intention to "compose a vast musical fresco, less scrupulous as to archaism than faithful to the Greece of my dreams....
Manufacturer: Dover Publications