RAVEL | Sonatine: I. m. 2

SPECIAL COLLECTION | Dorothy Brandwein’s Ravel Fingerings

Published on 4/4/2022 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), 35, 73.

35: “Divisi fingering can diminish interference between hands in many measures that have a complex harmonic texture or figuration. Example 16 shows...which have in common the necessity for a blend of notes at great speed and at very soft dynamic levels.”