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Bolero
Maurice Ravel (trans. Marco Tamanini)
General Info
Year: 1928 / 2011
Duration: c. 14:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Baton Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - €159.00 | Score Only (print) - €26.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Oboe d'Amore
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet Solo-I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
E-flat Trumpet
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Harp
Celeste
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Tam Tam
Cello
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Maurice Ravel is perhaps known best for his orchestral work Bolero (1928), which he considered trivial and once described as "a piece for orchestra without music". Bolero is a one-movement orchestral piece originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian ballerina Ida Rubinstein. For Bolero he used the opportunity to conduct an experiment. As he put it, the score would be "uniform throughout in its melody, harmony and rhythm, the latter being tapped out continuously on the drum. The only element of variety is supplied by the orchestral crescendo." Instrumental coloring plays a major role, as well, an area in which Ravel had attained supreme mastery.
After its premiere as a ballet, Bolero quickly won even greater success in the concert hall.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Cleveland (Tenn.) Pops Concert Band (Sarah Pearson, conductor) – 10 March 2020
- State University of New York Stony Brook Wind Ensemble (Bruce Engel, conductor) – 17 April 2019
- Tufts University (Somerville, Mass.) Wind Ensemble (John McCann, conductor) – 14 April 2019
- Troy University (Troy, Ala.) Symphony Band (Mark Walker, conductor) – 23 February 2018 (CBDNA 2018 Southern Conference, Tampa, Fla.)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Bolero (arr. Bocook) (1928/2003)
- Bolero (arr. Zappa; tr. Howell) (1928/2020)
- Bolero (arr. Iwai) (1928/1982)
- Bolero (tr. Rogers) (1928/)
- Bolero (arr. Sparke) (1928/2011)
- Bolero (tr. Tamanini) (1928/2011)
- Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2 (tr. Hindsley) (1912/)
- Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2 (tr. Patterson) (1912/2015)
- Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2 (tr. Sato) (1912/1999)
- The Enchanted Garden (arr. Thornton) (1908/1991)
- Entre Cloches (arr. Di Scala) (1897/2012)
- Excerpts from "Mother Goose Suite" (arr. Turner) (1910/2010)
- La Vallée des Cloches (tr. Hunsberger) (1905/1981)
- La Valse (tr. Kreines) (1920/2005)
- La Valse (tr. Patterson) (1920/)
- Laideronnette: Impératrice des Pagodes (arr. Beck) (1910/2013)
- Le Tombeau de Couperin (arr. Amano) (1914-1917/2002)
- Mother Goose Suite (tr. Frey) (1901/2018)
- Lone Star Rhapsody
- Pavane (tr. Binney) (1899/2020)
- Pavane (arr. de Meij) (1899/1991)
- Pavane (arr. Story) (1899/2015)
- Pavane pour une infante défunte (arr. Egli) (1899/1990)
- Pavane pour une infante défunte (orch. Kimura) (1899/1991)
- Pavane pour une infante défunte (tr. Hindsley) (1899/197-?)
- Pavane pour une infante défunte (tr. Lauf) (1899/2013)
- Pavane pour une infante défunte (arr. Thornton) (1899/1966)
- Pavane for a Dead Princess (orch. Reed; ed. McAlister) (1899/1988)
- Piano Trio in A minor (arr. Takagi) (1914/2011)
- Rapsodie Espagnole (arr. Morita) (1907-1908/1999)
- Scarbo (arr. Amano) (1908/2000)
- String Quartet in F (arr. Primatic) (1902-1903/2013)
Resources
- Boléro,Wikipedia Accessed 3 March 2018
- Perusal score