AURES, a mountain mass in the south of the department of Constantine, Algeria (q.v.).
See M. W. Hilton Simpson, Among the Hill Folk of Algeria (1921) . AURIC, GEORGE (1899– ), French composer, born Lodeve, Herault. With Honegger, Poulenc, and others, he first came under notice as one of a group of ultra-advanced composers calling themselves "Les Six." His earliest works showed the in fluence of Ravel and later of Satie, but more recently he has inclined to the methods of Stravinsky. He wrote the music for the Diaghilev ballet "Les Matelots."