Lesson 6

Mother Goose Suite, by Maurice Ravel (1910)

The Mother Goose Suite has 5 movements, each depicting a different story. 

Movement 1: Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzG-v85XvH0

Movement 2: Tom Thumb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elbQDZT0yCM

Movement 3: Laideronnette, Empress of the Pagodas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mej3X34_quI

Movement 4: Conversation of Beauty and the Beast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i99J40s4xZs

Movement 5: The Fairy Garden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjBtvfe1t18

If you have time/interest, you can listen to Ravel’s orchestration of his Mother Goose Suite. He originally wrote this Suite for piano duet in 1910, and then he orchestrated it in 1911.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4tMATIRHH0