RAVEL | Gaspard de la nuit: Scarbo: mm. 325–27

SPECIAL COLLECTION | Dorothy Brandwein’s Ravel Fingerings

Published on 4/29/2022 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), 43, 102.

43: “The measures from ‘Scarbo’ in Example 24 contain simultaneous leaps on both staffs. If the left hand is allowed to play the octave preceding the bar line, the right hand can more securely land on and execute the tumbling figuration at a forte dynamic.”