The Ballets of Maurice Ravel Creation and Interpretation

'The Ballets of Maurice Ravel: Creation and Interpretation is a most interesting project and will undoubtedly be very valuable to scholars and students in both music and dance. Stephanie Jordan, Research Professor in Dance, Roehampton University

'This well-documented study offers important insight into the choreographic aspects of Ravel's art. Highly recommended.' Professor Arbie Orenstein, Aaron Copland School of Music, The Queens College, City University of New York

'... the production details are often fascinating in their own right, and Mawer has been diligent in seeking them out and often perspicacious in evaluating them... as a reference book to Ravel ballet productions this volume has considerable value.' BBC Music Magazine

'A powerful study of unusual scope... [The author's] research bears fruit in informed accounts of each work based on exhaustive and wide-ranging primary sources... The whole volume, usefully illustrated with prints mainly from the Paris Bibliothèque Nationale is warmly recommended.' Dancing Times

This solid, well-organized volume offers a balanced discussion of dance and music in the ballets of Ravel...Recommended. Choice

'... this book is not only indispensable for those who study Ravel and twentieth-century classical ballet, but also edifying and accessible to a much broader readership that includes musicians, dancers, and interested audience members... this foundational book is certain to generate a new and lively discussion about Ravel's music and his ballets, and promises to exert a lasting influence upon future scholarship.' Notes

'[Deborah Mawer's] study abounds in musical examples which will be of interest to the musicologist as well as the ballet historian. Ballet-Dance Magazine