Mouvement de Menuet is a shorter composition compared to the first and third movements and is in the style of a waltz written in D flat major. Ravel used traditional harmonic styles, often moving the chord in thirds. According to Vlado Perlemuter, Ravel said that it should be played sensitively, but not overrefined. He also makes use of parallel triads and sevenths. The piece is in 3/8 and is mostly played at a pianissimo. The left hand often plays staccato triads in a waltz harmony. The melody has a wide range of notes and it is mostly disjunct. There are many dynamic swells and crescendos along the piece. This piece is in rondo form. The first A section is from bars 1-12 (repeated), the B section is bars 13-38 and the C section is at bars 39-51. The A section then repeats again at bars 53-64 and the B section repeats again at bars 65-78. There is then a coda at bars 79-82. In bar 51, the key modulates to A Major, indicating a new
Mouvement de Menuet is a shorter composition compared to the first and third movements and is in the style of a waltz written in D flat major. Ravel used traditional harmonic styles, often moving the chord in thirds. According to Vlado Perlemuter, Ravel said that it should be played sensitively, but not overrefined. He also makes use of parallel triads and sevenths. The piece is in 3/8 and is mostly played at a pianissimo. The left hand often plays staccato triads in a waltz harmony. The melody has a wide range of notes and it is mostly disjunct. There are many dynamic swells and crescendos along the piece. This piece is in rondo form. The first A section is from bars 1-12 (repeated), the B section is bars 13-38 and the C section is at bars 39-51. The A section then repeats again at bars 53-64 and the B section repeats again at bars 65-78. There is then a coda at bars 79-82. In bar 51, the key modulates to A Major, indicating a new