Beyond the Notes: Texts to Breitkopf's Ravel Editions

Beyond the Notes is a worthy conclusion of Breitkopf & Härtel's long-standing collaboration with the renowned conductor and Ravel expert, Jean-François Monnard. This slim volume brings together the informative introductory texts from the individual Urtext editions, offering interested readers an insight into the editor's wealth of knowledge and experience.

Beyond the Notes offers

• a supplementary foreword
• selected music examples
• a chronological overview
• an interview with the editor

The prefaces originate from the following editions:

• PB 5540 Le Tombeau de Couperin
• PB 5539 Valses nobles et sentimentales
• PB 5650 Daphnis et Chloé
• PB 5716 L'Heure espagnole
• PB 5299 Bolero
• PB 5614 Tableaux d'une exposition
• PB 5374 La Valse
• PB 5530 Rapsodie espagnole
• PB 5753 L'Enfant et les Sortilèges