RAVEL | Gaspard de la nuit: Scarbo: m. 368

SPECIAL COLLECTION | Dorothy Brandwein’s Ravel Fingerings

Published on 4/30/2022 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), 44, 103.

43: “There are many fortissimo passages in Ravel's keyboard music which require great strength and power.The pianist must work out fingering which gives him the most comfortable hand position and uses the strongest fingers. Example 25 cites measures in which notes can be divided so that the jumps do not diminish the tonal brilliance of the notes on the upper staff.”