This resulted to an effect of an overall growth of harmony, dynamics and complexity of timbre elements. This composition made it evident that with only a variation in the color of composition, in a few minutes of repeating themes can result to an absolute master piece.īolero’s depth of structure is found on its collaboration of a number of rules on development. Ravel himself described it as an orchestra piece that had no music in it. How ever Ravel was not locked into a particular cocoon of composing style, also to mention there were factors that influenced his compositions for instance the movement of the Impressionist, though he created a style unique to himself and again very rich in color including Bolero (Rebecca, 2011, 1).īolero was written as an experiment which surprisingly attached a lot of fame to Ravel, it was a composition with a flavor that was of Spanish ballet Ravel was able to produce complete orchestra composition gradually building its volume and tone. If any musical piece is taken, depleted of its basic concepts like harmony, melody and rhythm what is left is an abstract nature of music with elements like the tone, color and timbre, the most abstract of the them all is color, composers paid keen interest to color in their music, In this regard Ravel was a master, his creation of color in orchestra composition was exemplary and evident in all his work. When Ravel performed the piece in Paris on 22 nd of November 1928, the piece was an absolute success that amazed even Ravel himself, despite its success Ravel was very interested in how his audience perceived the piece, a prominent lady who was present in the audience during the performance, remarked that Ravel was mad to come up with such composition, when Ravel heard of her comments he smiled satisfactorily and said that the lady had understood the piece!.

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