The sounds made by water – those of fountains, waterfalls and streams – were a popular subject in musical impressionism. Liszt had already explored this in his “Jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este”, and it was also a subject that inspired Ravel.
At the same time he broke fresh compositional ground: in his “Jeux d’eau” he developed a kind of floating harmony and created new tonal effects. These shimmering tone paintings are among the first of our Urtext editions by this important French master. In order to provide musicians with a first-rate engraving for this highly complex music, we have slightly increased our Urtext format – and can thus guarantee excellent readability.
水聲——噴泉、瀑布和溪流的聲音——是印象派音樂中一個熱門的主題。李斯特在他的《埃斯特莊園水樂曲》中就探索過這個主題,拉威爾也深受其啟發。
同時,他在作曲上也取得了突破:在《水樂曲》中,他發展出一種飄逸的和聲,並創造了新的音色效果。這些閃爍的音畫是我們首批推出的這位法國大師的原始樂譜之一。為了提供音樂家一流的樂譜裝幀,我們略微增大了原版樂譜的開本,從而保證了極佳的閱讀體驗。