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Delage's best known piece is ''Quatre poèmes hindous'' (1912–1913).<ref>Georges Jean-Aubry (1917) [https://books.google.com/books?id=BhH_AAAAMAAJ ''An Introduction to French Music'',] p.67, Cecil Palmer & Hayward, London</ref> His ''[[Ragamalika]]'' (1912–1922), based on the [[classical music]] of India, is also significant in that it calls for [[prepared piano]]; the score specifies that a piece of [[Cardboard (paper product)|cardboard]] be placed under the strings of the B-flat in the second line of the bass clef to dampen the sound, imitating the sound of an Indian [[drum]].
Delage's best known piece is ''Quatre poèmes hindous'' (1912–1913).<ref>Georges Jean-Aubry (1917) [https://books.google.com/books?id=BhH_AAAAMAAJ ''An Introduction to French Music'',] p.67, Cecil Palmer & Hayward, London</ref> His ''[[Ragamalika]]'' (1912–1922), based on the [[classical music]] of India, is also significant in that it calls for [[prepared piano]]; the score specifies that a piece of [[Cardboard (paper product)|cardboard]] be placed under the strings of the B-flat in the second line of the bass clef to dampen the sound, imitating the sound of an Indian [[drum]].

===Selected works===
*''Quatre poèmes hindous'' (1912)
**Madras
**Lahore
**Banares
**Jaipur


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 04:24, 8 August 2015

Maurice Delage (13 November 1879 – 21 September 1961) was a French composer and pianist.

Delage was born and died in Paris. A student of Ravel, who proclaimed him one of the supreme French composers of his day,[1] and member of Les Apaches, he was influenced by travels to India and Japan in 1912, when he accompanied his father who was on a business trip.[2] Ravel's "La vallée des cloches" from Miroirs was dedicated to Delage.

Delage's best known piece is Quatre poèmes hindous (1912–1913).[3] His Ragamalika (1912–1922), based on the classical music of India, is also significant in that it calls for prepared piano; the score specifies that a piece of cardboard be placed under the strings of the B-flat in the second line of the bass clef to dampen the sound, imitating the sound of an Indian drum.

Selected works

  • Quatre poèmes hindous (1912)
    • Madras
    • Lahore
    • Banares
    • Jaipur

References

  1. ^ "Program notes", Contemporary Directions Ensemble, Concert, University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance Miscellaneous Publications (1980)
  2. ^ Jann Pasler (1986) Confronting Stravinsky: Man, Musician, and Modernist, p.278, University of California Press ISBN 978-0-52005-403-5
  3. ^ Georges Jean-Aubry (1917) An Introduction to French Music, p.67, Cecil Palmer & Hayward, London

Sources

  • Pasler, Jann (2000). "Race, Orientalism, and Distinction in the Wake of the 'Yellow Peril'." In Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music, ed. Georgina Born and David Hesmondhalgh. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press.

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