RAVEL | Valses nobles et sentimentales: VII. mm. 17–18

SPECIAL COLLECTION | Dorothy Brandwein’s Ravel Fingerings

Published on 4/8/2022 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), 57, 111.

57: “Homophonic writing is a common feature of Ravel's style. Therefore, the pianist must be attentive to the horizontal line, as well as the balance of the vertical structures. When two hands share the chord, the balancing is made easier, as may be seen in Example 41.”