Just because .... "coldest winter in almost fourteen years"

[Ahpook]

16. Cool. I am a music nerd and did some more reading

In your interpretation, what is meant by "Ravel had long toyed with the idea of building a composition from a single theme which would grow simply through harmonic and instrumental ingenuity."

I've written many songs and that describes the process that I have always used. Stick to a theme and grow the idea into verse, chorus, perhaps crescendo and an outro. I might be missing what the author is trying to convey?

That is a fairly standard approach to writing music, correct?