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''Ma mère l'Oye'' (''Mother Goose''; "Oye" is correctly capitalized, being a proper name) is a musical work by French composer Maurice Ravel. ==Piano versions== Ravel originally wrote ''Ma mère l'Oye'' as a piano duet for the Godebski children, Mimi and Jean, ages 6 and 7. Ravel dedicated this work for four hands to the children (just as he had dedicated an earlier work, ''Sonatine'', to their parents). Jeanne Leleu and Geneviève Durony premiered the work at the first concert of the Société Musicale Indépendante on 20 April 1910. The piece was transcribed for solo piano by Ravel's friend Jacques Charlot the same year as it was published (1910); the first movement of Ravel's ''Le tombeau de Couperin'' was also dedicated to Charlot's memory after his death in World War I. Both piano versions bear the subtitle "cinq pièces enfantines" (five children's pieces). The five "pieces" were as follows: : * I. ''Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant (Duo Campion/Vachon)'' :: Pavane of Sleeping Beauty :: Lent : * II. ''Petit Poucet'' :: Little Tom Thumb / Hop o' My Thumb :: Très modéré : * III. ''Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes'' :: Little Ugly Girl, Empress of the Pagodas :: Mouvt de marche : * IV. ''Les entretiens de la belle et de la bête'' :: Conversation of Beauty and the Beast :: Mouvt de valse très modéré : * V. ''Le jardin féerique'' :: The Fairy Garden :: Lent et grave On several of the scores, Ravel included quotes to indicate clearly what he was trying to invoke. For example, for the second "piece": :"Il croyait trouver aisément son chemin par le moyen de son pain qu'il avait semé partout où il avait passé; mais il fut bien surpris lorsqu'il ne put retrouver une seule miette: les oiseaux étaient venus qui avaient tout mangé. (Ch. Perrault)" :(believed he'd easily find his way because of the bread that he'd strewn all along his path; but he was very surprised to find not a single crumb: the birds had come and eaten everything." (Charles Perrault) ) ''Sleeping Beauty'' and ''Little Tom Thumb'' were based on the tales of Charles Perrault, while ''Little Ugly Girl, Empress of the Pagodas'' was inspired by a tale (The Green Serpent) by Perrault's "rival" Madame d'Aulnoy. In this movement, Ravel takes advantage of the pentatonic scale. ''Beauty and the Beast'' is based upon the version of Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont. The origin of ''The Fairy Garden'' is not entirely known. The "Mouvt de marche" of ''Little Ugly Girl'' uses quartal harmony: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ma mère l'oye」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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