This first comprehensive study unites musical, literary, documentary and cultural perspectives to shed new light on Ravel's compositional practice.

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Poetry. Translated from the French by Peter Manson. THE POEMS IN VERSE is Peter Manson's translation of The Poésies of Stéphane Mallarmé. Long overshadowed b