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Ravel wrote his orchestral masterpiece, Boléro, towards the end of his life and it quickly became his most popular piece of music. But behind the infectious rhythms lies a story that might explain why he wrote the piece in the way that he did.

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FURTHER READING
Unravelling Boléro: progressive aphasia, transmodal
creativity and the right posterior neocortex: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18057...
Formal Music Representation; a Case Study: the Model of Ravel's Bolero by Petri Nets: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper...
Ravel’s Boléro Factory: The Orchestration of the Machine Age: https://search.informit.org/doi/10.33...

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