RAVEL | Miroirs: Noctuelles: mm. 21–22

SPECIAL COLLECTION | Dorothy Brandwein’s Ravel Fingerings

Published on 4/21/2022 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), 28, 78.

28. “The expressiveness of many passages in ‘Noctuelles’ is impeded by the angularity of the right hand figuration. Example 8 shows that if the left hand plays notes which are convenient to its position, then the right hand can more comfortably and smoothly phrase the highest melodic notes of the pattern.”

78, fn4: “Careful balance must be maintained between the melodic motif and the notes of the figuration.”