Bolero
by Maurice Ravel
Concert Band - Sheet Music

Concert band (Piccolo, Flute 1, Flute 2, Oboe 1, Oboe 2/English Horn, Eb Clarinet, Bb Clarinet 1, Bb Clarinet 2, Bb Clarinet 3, Eb Alto Clarinet, Bb Bass Clarinet, Bassoon 1/2, Alto Saxophone 1/Bb Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone 2, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone) - grade 5

SKU: CN.S11294

Composed by Maurice Ravel. Arranged by Geoffrey Brand. Score only. Duration 16:00. Published by G & M Brand Music Publishers (CN.S11294).

Ravel's ever-popular masterpiece is now available for band in this wonderful setting. Geoffrey Brand has scored "Bolero" in such a way that one might think they were hearing the original orchestral version.

During the time I was working on this arrangement of 'Bolero' for wind orchestra I was given a copy of the book 'Musicophilia - Tales of Music and the Brain' by Oliver Sacks. Within its pages I was confronted with the information the "Maurice Ravel, the composer, suffered in the last years of his life from a condition...which would probably now be diagnosed as a form of frontotemporal dementia." Later, Professor Sacks "wonders, indeed, whether Ravel was on the cusp of dementia when he wrote his 'Bolero,' a work characterized by the relentless repetition of a single musical phrase dozens of times, waxing in loudness and orchestration but with no development." My curiosity was roused, and remains so, as to how different 'Bolero' might have been had it been written earlier in Ravel's life?