RAVEL | Miroirs: Une barque sur l'océan: m. 43

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), 25, 83.

24: “The redistribution of notes in the measures of Example 3 enables the pianist to maintain identical chordal hand positions which are transferred to each register of the keyboard; the fluid undulation of the arpeggios simulates the rolling waves of an ocean.”