Description
Maurice Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, written between 1914 and 1917, is one of the French composer’s most iconic works. Originally a six-movement work for piano, Le Tombeau is loosely based on the dance suites by the piece’s namesake, the French baroque composer François Couperin (1668 – 1733). Stylistically, the suite is a far cry from the music of Couperin himself, however: elaborate, almost jazz-infused harmonies underpin the expressive and delicate melodies that are so typical of Ravel’s music from this period. Traditionally, a tombeau is a suite dedicated to the memory of one or more deceased individuals, and Ravel wrote the movements of this suite as a remembrance to fallen friends and acquaintances in the First World War. The gentle, often poignant music beautifully captures this sense of homage.
Parts included:
- Score
- Trumpet 1 in B-flat
- Trumpet 2 in B-flat
- Trumpet 3 in B-flat (Doubling Piccolo in B-flat)
- Trumpet 4 in B-flat (Doubling Flugelhorn in B-flat)
- Horn in F
- Trombone 1 (Doubling Alto Trombone)
- Trombone 2
- Trombone 3
- Trombone 4 (Bass)
- Tuba
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