RAVEL | Miroirs: Alborada del gracioso: mm. 49–51

SPECIAL COLLECTION | Dorothy Brandwein’s Ravel Fingerings

Published on 4/26/2022 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), 46, 88.

45: “A clean repetition of the single note on the piano can be attained by alternating the thumbs whenever possible. This alternation also has the advantage of breaking the tension which can build up in the right hand when it plays long passages of repeated notes.”