RAVEL | Sonatine: III. mm. 18–21

SPECIAL COLLECTION | Dorothy Brandwein’s Ravel Fingerings

Published on 4/19/2022 with the author’s permission

First appeared in Dorothy Woster Brandwein, "Divisi Fingering in Selected Passages from Ravel's Solo Piano Works" (DMA diss., University of Missouri–Kansas City, 1981), 26, 74.

25–26: “The left hand figuration in the measures of Example 5 is difficult because of its register, its location on the black keys, and the marked accents of the counter-melody. The right hand can conveniently play some of the notes in the figuration, and, in this way, contribute to the rhythmic momentum of the passage.”