RAVEL | Miroirs: Alborada del gracioso: mm. 5–6

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), 52, 87.

52: “Two recurring figurations in the opening section of ‘Alborada del gracioso’ are ornamental within the context of the melodic line. Example 36 shows one method of playing the right hand triplet figure which is difficult as notated, since it covers the interval of a ninth and must be played forte. The notes on the upper staff are easier for the small hand to play when the rotation of the wrist up from the major-second is eliminated.”