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Published online 22 January 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020121-1
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Brain disease shaped Boléro
Ravel's last music bears the mark of his deteriorating brain.
Brain disease influenced Ravel's last compositions including his Boléro, say researchers. Orchestral timbres came to dominate his late music at the expense of melodic complexity because the left half of his brain deteriorated, they suggest1.
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