A New Analytical Approach to the Musical Language of Ravel

Abstract

The help offered by Schenker's analysis into performing, as the musician affirmed, is recognized in the performer's world, considering that his approach situated the analysis into performing. Even if Schenker has not taken into account in his analysis the French music, a wide range of Ravel's music characteristics demonstrates that it can be analyzed using the theoretical model of the Austrian theorist. The prolongation's principles can be extended in order to adapt them to the post-romantic music using new criteria applied to the foreground through the complexity of musical language and without modifying the paradigm of the background mostly aligned to the Ursatz mode.