Maurice Ravel
Bolero
for Large Symphonic Wind Band
Maurice Ravel
Bolero
for Large Symphonic Wind Band
- Instrumentation Concert Band
- Edition Score
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Difficulty Level
- Composer Maurice Ravel
- Editor R. Mark Rogers
- Publisher Southern Music Company
- Series Southern Music Band
- Order no. 01868693
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Description:
Initially commissioned by Ida Rubenstein as a ballet work initially, Maurice Ravel's BOLERO has become his most popular and often-performed orchestra composition, which was a surprise to the composer who described it as seventeen minutes of orchestra without any music. With a structure that is simplicity itself, BOLERO uses two alternating melodies in what Ravel described as a crescendo on commonplace melod[ies]. Mark Rogers' transcription of BOLERO is an entirely complete wind band version of the piece; omitting not a single note or exotic instrument, thereby transferring the brilliance of Ravel's orchestral score to the symphonic wind band with as much fidelity to the original as possible. Ravel calls for a very large orchestra (triple woodwinds, saxophones, large brass section, harp, celesta and percussion). Consequently, this transcription of BOLERO contains a large amount of divisi writing. It goes without saying that this transcription will be most successfully performed by large symphonic wind band.
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