Breaking the Frame: Arabesque and Metric Complexity in the Sunrise Scene from Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé (1912)

The arabesque is a type of ornament that achieved considerable popularity during the Art Nouveau movement of the fin/debut-de-siècle. This paper examines how in the Sunrise Scene from Ravel’s ballet, Daphnis et Chloé (1912), he conceived of this ornament as an ostinato motif whose short rhythmic val...

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Main Author: Gurminder Kaur Bhogal
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie (GMTH) 2008-01-01
Series:Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie
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Online Access:https://storage.gmth.de/zgmth/pdf/270
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