Collection of critical and analytical scholarly essays on the music of Ravel by prominent scholars.

Ravel's Poetics: Literary Currents, Classical Takes - Steven HuebnerRe-presenting Ravel: Artificiality and the Aesthetic of Imposture - Barbara L. KellyAdorno's Ravel - Michael J. PuriRavel's Approach to Formal Process: Comparisons and Contexts - Peter KaminskyRepetition as Musical Motion in Ravel's Piano Writing - Daphne N. Leong and David KorevaarPlaying with Models: Sonata Form in Ravel's String Quartet and Piano Trio - Sigrun HeinzelmannSpiral and Self-Destruction in Ravel's "La valse" - Volker HelbingDiatonic Expansion and Chromatic Compression in Maurice Ravel's Sonate pour violonet violoncelle - Elliott AntokoletzDeception, Reality, and Changes of Perspective in Two Songs from Histoires Naturelles - Lauri SuurpääNot Just a Pretty Surface: Ornament and Metric Complexity in Ravel's Piano Music - Gurminder K. BhogalThe Child on the Couch; or, Toward a (Psycho)Analysis of L'enfant et les sortilèges - Peter Kaminsky