Mother Goose Suite

Composed by Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937)

Mother Goose Suite by Maurice Ravel

Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty in the forest

Tom Thumb Laideronnette,

Empress of the Pagodas

Conversation between Beauty and the Beast

The Enchanted Garden

Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty in the forest

A

B

C

Section

Instrument Graphic (A, B, C)

1 Flute (low pitch)  

2 Flute (high pitch)  

3 Clarinet  

4 Flute (low pitch)  

5 Violins  

Tom Thumb

1 2 3

1 2 3

1 2 3 4

1 2 3

1 2 3 4 5

1 2 3

1 2 3

1 2 3 1 2 3 4

1 2 3

1 2 3 4 5

1 2 3

GA B D Eb F G A B C D Eb F G A B C D Eb F G

Composing 1: Creating a chorus of birds

Link to bird songs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/birdsong.shtml

Collared Dove

Blackbird

Chaffinch

Short sound 

Repeated short sound 

Raspy sound 

  

 

  

 

  

 

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Tom’s Journey

Laideronnette, Empress of the Pagodas

1. introduction

3. glockenspiels and brass answered by flutes Repeating

solo woodwind melodies with some xylophone notes

Solo flute and piccolo melodies

Unison melody with gongs Mainly xylophones and flutes

Learning how Javanese and Balinese gamelan influenced

‘Pagodas’

www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/makingtracks/gamelan.shtml

http://www.sftsunami.org/bamboobali/hear_us.shtml

Performing a Balinese rindik piece - Tempung ketan

Core melody parts (kotekan parts start here)

CM1

2   1   2   1   5   6          

CM2

2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6

 

CM1

1   6   1   6   1   5          

CM2

1 1 6 6 1 1 6 6 1 1 5 5 5 5 5 5

 Kotekan parts (Extension)

lanang . 1 2 . 1 . 2 1

wadon 6 . 5 6 . 6 5 .

PENTATONIC SCALE: G A B D E 1 2 3 5 6

To hear whole piece click here

Composing a Dragon

Dance

Pentatonic scale:

C D E G A

Spi-tting out fire

Wings out-stretched

Scales on it’s back

Dra-gon Dra-gon

Conversation between Beauty and the Beast

The melody is played on clarinet

The melody is played on contra-bassoon

The music is flowing

There is an Oom Cha accompaniment

The melody is played at a low pitch

A harp plays throughout this section

The beginning of the melody is accompanied by 4 loud pizzicato notes

A cymbal is heard twice

Beauty

Beast

Learning about the contra-bassoon

A large, deep-toned instrument of the oboe family, also called double bassoon. Its tube, over 16 ft (5 m) long, is doubled upon itself four times. It was first made by Hans Schreiber of Berlin in 1620. http://www.bbc.co.uk/orchestras/guide/bassoon.shtml

Composing a piece called Beauty and the Beast

Compose a piece that uses a similar structure as Ravel’s Beauty and the Beast i.e.:

1. Music that describes Beauty

2. Music that describes the Beast

3. Music that describes the Beast changing into a handsome prince

  BEAUTY BEAST

Mood   

   

Pitch   

   

Dynamics   

   

Silence   

   

Tempo   

   

Timbre   

   

The Enchanted Garden

The Enchanted

Garden

By Maurice Ravel

Sources of images:

Maurice Ravel: http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/ravel.html Image of Mother Goose: http://eclipse.rutgers.edu/goose/what/0.aspx Images of birds: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/birdsong.shtml Images of Tom Thumb: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/TTImages.htm Images of Pagodas:

http://www.photographersdirect.com/stockimages/p/pagoda.asp Images of gamelan: http://www.sftsunami.org/bamboobali/music.shtml Chinese dragon: http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/chinese-dragon.html Contrabassoon: http://www.dsokids.com/2001/dso.asp?PageID=157 Enchanted garden: http://www.kew.org/