Ravel’s ‘Mother Goose’ stories

The ‘Cinq pieces enfantines’ that make up Ravel’s ‘Mother Goose Suite’ illustrate moments from fairy tale narratives. Apart from the last (The Fairy Garden), each is subtitled with a line or two from the text of a story. Three of these are well known stories: Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, and Beauty and the Beast (all from Perrault). The third, ‘Pagodes et Pagodines’ is based on a less familiar tale, ‘The Green Serpent’, by Mme d’Anglebert.