Previous posts for March 7th can be found here: John Wilbye (2019), Maurice Ravel (2020), and Thomas Linley the Younger (2021), Maurice Ravel (2022), Maurice Ravel (2023), Maurice Ravel (2024)., and Maurice Ravel (2025)
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Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a great French composer, pianist and conductor.
Harmony Grits
These limericks are written to tell
The truth about Maurice Ravel,
Who can drive players bats
When his sharps and his flats
Are scattered all over pell mell.
The flats and the sharps are how he
Disguises and colors the key;
But they make for rough reading
When tempos are speeding,...
Or after a glass of chablis.
Ravel, who with blithe ingenuity
Used scales with a veiled ambiguity,
Got carried away
In the prodigal play
Of harmonically lush superfluity.
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