OVERTURE “SHÉHÉRAZADE” BY MAURICE RAVEL: GENRE AND SEMANTIC PROJECTIONS

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dc.coverageSTUDIA UBB MUSICA, Volume 70 (LXX), Special Issue 1, July 2025, pp. 253-262, DOI: 10.24193/subbmusica.2025.spiss1.14en-US
dc.creatorZHARKOVA, Valeriya
dc.creatorZHARKOV, Oleksandr
dc.creatorRIZAIEVA, Ganna
dc.date2025-07-15
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-21T20:20:45Z
dc.descriptionThe article is devoted to the study of the genre specificity of M. Ravel’s overture de féerie “Shéhérazade” (1898) and the identification of its important semantic aspects. The non-traditional genre definition of the composition as an overture de féerie reveals the composer’s desire to actualize the theatrical context known to the listener (the féerie genre). The composer seems to extend the “exotic” semantic layer, given in the title by the name of the heroine of the Arabian tales “One Thousand and One Nights”, to the “stereophonic” space of the féerie, and the orchestra completely takes over all the functions of creating the physical and metaphysical dimensions of the féerie. The multidimensionality of the national theatrical genre of the féerie is “folded” in the “Shéhérazade” overture into an orchestral space that contains multilevel projections of the unfolding of extra-musical meanings. This is how the connections between the first orchestral composition and the compositions of the following years - “Waltz” (“choreographic poem”) and “Bolero” (“ballet for orchestra”) – are revealed. The unity of plastic and sound gestures, sensual and deeply hidden from thoughts fantasies will remain a distinctive characteristic of Maurice Ravel’s thinking until his last compositions.en-US
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dc.identifierhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbmusica/article/view/9414
dc.identifier10.24193/subbmusica.2025.spiss1.14
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14637/2418
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherBabeș-Bolyai University / Cluj University Pressen-US
dc.relationhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbmusica/article/view/9414/9097
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2025 Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Musicaen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en-US
dc.sourceStudia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Musica; Volume 70, Special Issue 1, July 2025; 253-262en-US
dc.source2065-9628
dc.source1844-4369
dc.source10.24193/subbmusica.2025.spiss1
dc.subjectMaurice Ravelen-US
dc.subjectShéhérazadeen-US
dc.subjectoverture de féerieen-US
dc.subjectgenre innovationen-US
dc.subjectsemantic projectionen-US
dc.subjectOrientalismen-US
dc.titleOVERTURE “SHÉHÉRAZADE” BY MAURICE RAVEL: GENRE AND SEMANTIC PROJECTIONSen-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.typePeer-reviewed Articleen-US
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