Music and video loop by Anthony L. Sanchez (b. 1988)
Quotations from Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Copyright © 2024 by ZEKE SPILLED INK MUSIC (ASCAP), Savannah, GA
Date and location of video loop unknown
Performers:
John Cooper, viola
Peng-Chian Chen, piano
Recorded October 15, 2015, in Dancz Hall at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA
Score available now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/prelude-on-name-23980617
Audiovisuals edited using YouCut: https://app.youcut.net/BestEditor
Program Notes:
I composed this brief chamber piece for viola and piano to commemorate the 140th anniversary of the birth of French composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)in 2015. In creating this work, I devised an alphabetical grid to translate the letter of this composer’s name to music. I then translated his birth year (1875) and the year 2015 into pitch classes: (DbAbGF) and (DCDbF).
On another level, Prelude on the Name “MAURICE RAVEL” serves as a collage piece with quotations from some memorable Ravel piano compositions: Miroirs (1901), Le tombeau de Couperin (1914-17), Sonatine (1905), and Juex d’eau (1901). I have treated these quotations carefully by transferring much of the melodic materials to the viola and matching the quotations with the alphabetical realization of Ravel’s name. In this way, this prelude demonstrates the musical past connecting and blending in with the present.
As of 2008, the music of Maurice Ravel written before 1923 has been "Public Domain" in France. Such works written before 1923 became "Public Domain" in the US in 2019.
Quotations from Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Copyright © 2024 by ZEKE SPILLED INK MUSIC (ASCAP), Savannah, GA
Date and location of video loop unknown
Performers:
John Cooper, viola
Peng-Chian Chen, piano
Recorded October 15, 2015, in Dancz Hall at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA
Score available now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/prelude-on-name-23980617
Audiovisuals edited using YouCut: https://app.youcut.net/BestEditor
Program Notes:
I composed this brief chamber piece for viola and piano to commemorate the 140th anniversary of the birth of French composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)in 2015. In creating this work, I devised an alphabetical grid to translate the letter of this composer’s name to music. I then translated his birth year (1875) and the year 2015 into pitch classes: (DbAbGF) and (DCDbF).
On another level, Prelude on the Name “MAURICE RAVEL” serves as a collage piece with quotations from some memorable Ravel piano compositions: Miroirs (1901), Le tombeau de Couperin (1914-17), Sonatine (1905), and Juex d’eau (1901). I have treated these quotations carefully by transferring much of the melodic materials to the viola and matching the quotations with the alphabetical realization of Ravel’s name. In this way, this prelude demonstrates the musical past connecting and blending in with the present.
As of 2008, the music of Maurice Ravel written before 1923 has been "Public Domain" in France. Such works written before 1923 became "Public Domain" in the US in 2019.
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