The Ballets of Maurice Ravel : Creation and Interpretation (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction; Cultural and critical backdrop; Childhood fantasy and exoticism: Ma Mere l'Oye and L'Enfant; Greekness and myth in Daphnis et Chloe; Essays on the waltz I: Adelaide ou le langage des fleurs (Valses nobles); Essays on the waltz II: La Valse and epilogue; Neoclassical divertissements: Le Tombeau de Couperin and 'Fanfare' from L'Eventail de Jeanne; Spain, machines and sexuality: Bolero; 'Danse generale' - Ravel's œuvre as ballet; Appendix; Select bibliography; Index.