Ravel: Introduction and Allegro

Instruments:

-flute and clarinet

-harp (featured instrument)

-strings

Techniques:

-pizz

-doubling tonguing

-glissando

-Gb major

-chords move in parallel motion

-extended chords

Texture

-sparse texture

-flute and clarinet double

-polyphonic

Melody

-rises and falls in strings (play in parallel motion)

-cello solo

-virtuosic

Structure:

-introduction

-ambiguous opening

-repetition before figure 8 (melody heard in different instruments one octave lower

Rhythm:

-rest (creates a stillness)

-sextuplets

-change in tempo

-accelerando

-syncopation