Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. A Note to Readers xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 “Gentle Irony” 7
8. 2 Simple Sound: Ravel and “Crescendo” 40
9. 3 Opposed Sound: Ravel and Counterpoint 85
10. 4 Displaced Sound: Ravel and Registration 135
11. 5 Plundered Sound: Ravel and the Exotic 183
12. 6 Sound and Sense: Ravel and Synaesthesia 223
13. 7 “Secrets of Modernity”: Irony and Style 268
14. Appendix: Ravel’s 1902 Prix de Rome Fugue 283
15. Notes 289
16. Bibliography 391
17. Index 419