RAVEL | Gaspard de la nuit: Le Gibet: mm. 37–39

SPECIAL COLLECTION | Dorothy Brandwein’s Ravel Fingerings

Published on 4/28/2022 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), 98.

64: “Much attention should be given to the tonal color of the ‘tolling bell’ in ‘Le Gibet’ (Example 49). Divisi fingering allows the right hand to voice the B-Flat within the surrounding chord.”