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Ravelian, a.|rəˈvɛlɪən|
Also Ravellian.
[f. the name of Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), French composer.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the works of Ravel. Also as n., an exponent of Ravel's music.
1933M. D. Calvocoressi in Listener 22 Feb. 305/1 There is no mistaking the thoroughly ‘Ravel-ian’—and therefore French—quality of the mind and imagination which is at work. 1937Times 29 Dec. 12/3 The charm of the early quartet and septet will keep them fresh when some of the more purely Ravellian works have been discarded as too dry. 1946Penguin Music Mag. Dec. 32 The progress of Walton from his early and somewhat Ravelian Facade to the Violin Concerto. 1952B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. (1958) xxii. 310 Johnny Richards' excursions into Debussyan and Ravelian pasture. 1965Listener 28 Oct. 680/2 The two syllables ‘Ma-man’, pronounced as a falling fourth (a characteristic Ravelian fingerprint), strike an almost sentimental note. 1970L. Davies Ravel Orchestral Music 46 It culminates in a more virtuoso episode which leans too obviously on skimming Ravelian scales. 1981Times 26 Feb. 13/6 Manuel Rosenthal, a Ravelian to his fingertips. |