Alexander Publishing’s How Ravel Orchestrated: Mother Goose Suite is a breakthrough in both compositional and orchestration instruction. Finally, the classic work has been re-engraved with the condensed piano part at page bottom, enabling you to see how Ravel orchestrated from piano part to full orchestra. Students of counterpoint will see specific techniques that Ravel used, where, and how he orchestrated them. Jazz musicians and composers will see how Ravel composed and orchestrated altered DOM7 chords, mixolydian chord scales, and triads with the added 9th. For fast referencing, each bar is numbered at the bottom of the page (original rehearsal marks are also included). Preceding each movement is the complete short story it was based on helping you better the dramatic composition and scoring techniques going into each work. Following each movement is a brief orchestration analysis based on the Eight Keys To Learning Professional Orchestration as taught in the Professional Orchestration Series.

How Ravel Orchestrated: Mother Goose Suite goes beyond traditional analysis by including two literary works by Poe which greatly impacted Ravel, The Poetic Principle and The Philosophy of Composition. Also included is a brief on Ravel’s method of working which goes a long way to taking the mystery out of orchestral scoring.

Simply put, there has never been a practical analysis like this before, written in an engaging, accessible read/apply style. If you want to know where Hollywood pros get their orchestral colors from, look no further, it's here.