RAVEL | Miroirs: Alborada del gracioso: m. 212

SPECIAL COLLECTION | Dorothy Brandwein’s Ravel Fingerings

Published on 4/27/2022 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, 90.

25: “When sharing rapid figuration, it is essential that the notes be located close to the hand that plays them. In Example 4, the harmony is arpeggiated down three octaves between the left and right hands. The result is a brilliant fast-gliding effect—accomplished more easily by using both hands, than by using the right hand alone.”