Only four of Ravel's works have any direct links with literature, three of these (Habanera, Jeux D'Eau, and Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales) bear no more than a brief epigraph. Gaspard De La Nuit is thereforeunique amongst these pieces, not only in taking its title from a collection of prose poems by Aloysius Bertrand, but being shaped, albiet loosely, by the three poems chosen from the collection by Ravel, which are printed in fullat the beginning of each piece. Arranged for