Ravel, Maurice. (1875-1937) Chansons madécasses. Traduites en Francais par Evariste Parny.Dedication; 1 17. [PN] 10,973 (b). Each of the three songs with a superb woodcut vignette on the first page. In excellent condition in a glassine jacket. Ravel describes his Chansons madcasses, commissioned by and dedicated to Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, as seeming to him "to introduce something new, dramatic indeed erotic arising from the subject matter of Parny's poem. It is a sort of quartet where the voice is the principal instrument. Simplicity