RAVEL | Miroirs: Oiseaux tristes: m. 25

Piano fingerings for Oiseaux tristes from Miroirs by Maurice Ravel

SPECIAL COLLECTION | Dorothy Brandwein’s Ravel Fingerings

Published on 4/25/2022 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), 81.

34: “Divisi fingering can diminish interference between the hands in many measures that have a complex harmonic texture or figuration. Example 16 shows measures…which have in common the necessity for a blend of notes at great speed and at very soft dynamic levels.”

Solo Piano, Special CollectionMichael ClarkMaurice Ravel, Miroirs, Oiseaux tristes, Dorothy Brandwein, redistribution, reduce position shiftsComment