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• Ravel's Shéhérazade and Fin-de-Siècle Orientalism

Andrew Deruchie

Faculty ofMusic. McGill University

Montreal. Canada •

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Canadi • TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abstract

Résumé 11

Acknowledgments III

Chapter 1 Shéhérazade. Exoticism~ and Orientalism

Chapter II Dream Worlds and Desire: • Shéhérazade and Fin de Siècle Orientalism Chapter III Ravers Story: Shéhérazade and The Thol/sand and One l\ïghls 60

Appendix A Texts 87

Appendix B A Textual Problem 90

Sdècted Bibliography • • Abstract Shéhérazade (Trois poèms de Tristan Klingsor). composed in 1903. represents

both Ravel's first major vocal work and his earliest major orchestral composition.

Despite the work's important position in the composer"s oeuvre. it has received litde

academic attention. No monograph. dissertation. or article on Shéhérazade has yet

appeared. The primary objective ofthis study is to make this much needed contribution

ta Ravel scholarship. Ofthe piece's salient features. the most immediately striking is its

exoticism: every phrase is given an Oriental tint. Using the work ofcultural entic

Edward Said as a theoretical framework. 1contextualize Shéhéra::ade' s exoticism by

situating the piece within the broad set of interrelated cultural practices Said calls

Orientalism. 1show that the work is affiliated. structurally and rhetorically. with

particular Orientalist texts (both musical and non-musical). textual genres. traditions. and • practices. By locating the piece historically among these lexts and practices. and by using them as a referenti