Friday, April 25, 2014

FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2014

QUOTE:
"Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it
  requires from its  disciples, composers and performers alike,
  not only talent and enthusiasm, but also  that knowledge and
  perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection."
AUTHOR: Alban Berg

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"The more knowledge you have about
  any art form the more you will enjoy it."




COMPOSER
RAVEL
Couperin and Ravel
LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN
SUITE FOR SOLO PIANO
Ronald Brautigam, Piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_m6hLSpsLc
00:00 01-Prelude
03:19 02-Fugue
07:02 03-Forlane
13:51 04-Rigaudon
16:57 05-Menuet
22:16 06-Toccata
Composers of the French Baroque age,
François Couperin (1668-1733) among
them, paid tribute in music to recently
deceased colleagues. Such a piece was
called a "tombeau," literally a "tomb," and
Ravel intended such an association here.
Beside just a way of eulogizing his comrades,
however, the association with Couperin also
represented for Ravel the continuity of the
logic and refinement of French civilization.
It was in this great Gallic tradition that Ravel
sought intellectual and emotional shelter
from crushing contemporary events.The title
of Le Tombeau de Couperin, therefore, has
a triple meaning: it is a memorial to family
and close friends; it is a revival of some
and, probably most significant for
Ravel, it is a continuation of the venerable
tradition of French culture and thought in a
time of despair and nihilism.
April 11, 1919, at a Société Musicale
Indépendante concert in the Salle Gaveau
Salle Gaveau Inside
by Mar­guerite Long,
Marguerite Long
the pianist widow of one of the dead soldiers
remembered in Le Tombeau. (The Toc­cata 
movement is ded­i­cated to her husband Cap­tain
Joseph de Mar­li­ave.) Marguerite Long not
only premiered Le Tombeau, but also
Ravel's Piano Con­certo in G Major.)
Mar­guerite Long and Ravel
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Le Tombeau de Couperin is a suite for
solo piano by Maurice Ravel composed
between 1914 and 1917.
It is in six movements with each movement
dedicated to the memory of friends of the
composer who had died fighting in
World War I.
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the presumptiv
heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, on
June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo initiating the start of WWI
Ravel himself served in the
war as an ambulance driver.
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The movements are:
I. Prélude
"To the memory of
Lieutenant Jacques Charlot"
(who transcribed Ravel's four-hand piece
Ma mère l'oye for solo piano)
LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN
SUITE FOR SOLO PIANO
Prelude
Vlado Perlemuter, Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPIte_v5D9I
Jean-Philippe Collard, Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaCPY4Plg14
PRELUDE ANALYSIS
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II. Fugue
"To the memory of Jean Cruppi"
Jean Cruppi
(to whose mother Ravel dedicated
his opera L'heure espagnole)
LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN
SUITE FOR SOLO PIANO
Fugue
Vlado Perlemuter, Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxOOqw8eIbE
Jean-Philippe Collard, Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15UuB4sPbkU
(a Basque painter from Saint-Jean-de-Luz)
Gabriel Deluc (1850-1916): Vue de Ciboure, Maison de Maurice Ravel
(Ravel's Birth Place)
Gabriel Deluc - .Jeunes Filles au Piano, 1906
Gabriel Deluc: Young Girls at a Piano, 1906
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Gabriel Deluc: Bal Costumé Au Parc
"To the memory of Pierre
Pierre Gaudin
and Pascal Gaudin"
(brothers killed by the same shell on the
first day of their arrival at the front) 
LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN
SUITE FOR SOLO PIANO
Rigaudon
Vlado Perlemuter, Piano
Jean-Philippe Collard, Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCFCUFTudz8
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V. Menuet
"To the memory of Jean Dreyfus"
(at whose home Ravel recuperated
after he was demobilized)
LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN
SUITE FOR SOLO PIANO
Menuet
Vlado Perlemuter, Piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK-A2ZHOgqs
Jean-Philippe Collard, Piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6w1kpAze9Q
"To the memory of Captain
Joseph de Marliave"
Joseph de Marliave
(a musicologist and the husband of pianist
Marguerite Long, who premiered Le Tombeau
de Couperin, who died at the very start of the war)
LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN
SUITE FOR SOLO PIANO
Toccata
Vlado Perlemuter, Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhuaxYMtPkI
Jean-Philippe Collard, Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOSkcFTBwus
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In 1919 Ravel orchestrated four
movements of the work (Prélude,
Forlane, Menuet and Rigaudon);
this version was first performed
in 1920 by Rhené-Baton
File:Rhené-Baton 01.jpg
Rhené-Baton
and the Pasdeloup Orchestra,
the oldest symphony orchestra in France.
John Singer Sargent: Rehearsal of the Pasdeloup Orchestra (Drawing)
This piece has remained one
of his more popular works.
LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN
Original Orchestra Version
Paavo Järvi, Conductor
Orchestre de Paris

1 Prélude - Vif
2 Forlane - Allegretto
3 Menuet - Allegro moderato
4 Rigaudon - Assez vif
Ravel transcribed many of his
piano pieces for orchestra,
but here he reaches the height of his
orchestration skills, turning a very
pianistic piece into a superb orchestral
suite with very few hints of its origins.
The orchestral version clarifies the
harmonic language of the suite and
brings sharpness to its classical dance
rhythms; among the demands it places
on the orchestra is the requirement for
an oboe soloist of virtuosic skill.
Nearly 80 years later, the pianist and conductor
Hungarian Zoltán Kocsis began to orchestrate
the remaining two parts, the Toccata and Fugue.
His full orchestral version can be heard here:
LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN
Amended Orchestra Version
Zlotán Kocsis, Conductor
Zlotán Kocsis,
Arranger of Movements 5 and 6
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkt8T38aaMw
While the word-for-word meaning of the
title invites the assumption that the suite
is a programmatic work, describing what
is seen and felt in a visit to the tomb of
Couperin, tombeau is actually a musical term
popular in an earlier century and meaning
a piece written as a memorial. The specific
Couperin (among a family noted as
musicians for about two centuries) that
Ravel intended to be evoked, along with
the friends, would presumably be
François Couperin "the Great" (1668-1733).
However, Ravel stated that his intention was
never to imitate or tribute Couperin himself,
but rather was to pay homage to the
sensibilities of the Baroque French keyboard
suite. This is reflected in the structure
which imitates a Baroque dance suite.
As a preparatory exercise, Ravel had
transcribed a Forlane from the fourth
suite of Couperin's Concerts Royaux,
and this piece informs Ravel's Forlane
structurally. However, Ravel's neoclassicism
shines through with his pointedly twentieth-
century chromatic melody and
piquant harmonies.

When criticized for composing a light-hearted,
and sometimes reflective work rather than a
sombre one, for such a sombre topic,
Ravel replied:
"The dead are sad enough,
in their eternal silence."
http://www.classical-music.com/article/what-was-impact-world-war-one-music



GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
1.  PASSED OUT CONCERT NOTICES
2.  21 GUNS
3.  IMAGINE
4.  ELEANOR RIGBY

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENTS
GRANADA
1.  KEYBOARDS
a.  BLUE BOOK SONGS USING 2 HANDS AT THE SAME TIME
1).  ODE TO JOY
2).  JINGLE BELLS
2.  THEORY
a.  Reviewed line and space rules in quiz form
HILLVIEW
1.  KEYBOARDS
a.  BLUE BOOK SONGS USING 2 HANDS AT THE SAME TIME
1).  ODE TO JOY
2).  JINGLE BELLS
2.  VIOLIN
a.  Some students working on placing bow onto the violin
(more students to follow next week)
3. BACH 
a.  Collected for grading questions 13-21

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
1.  PASSED OUT CONCERT NOTICES
2.  CIELITO LINDO
3.  CIDER HOUSE RULES

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
1.  PASSED OUT CONCERT NOTICES
2.  LAS MANANITAS I and II
3.  ELEANOR RIGBY


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