Ravel Patrimoine Tonality

Question 1

tonality is ambigious

Answer 1

but not atonal

Question 2

key is not defined

Answer 2

through functional harmony or cadences

Question 3

no sense of tonal closure

Answer 3

at end of patrimoine section and unprepared key change for next section

Question 4

main keys are F#M and B major

Answer 4

use of subdominant major rather than minor makes key distant

Question 5

tonality based on whole tone scale

Answer 5

in vif section