RAVEL | Valses nobles et sentimentales: VIII: mm. 66–74

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), 63–64, 112.

63: “The nostalgic reprise of an earlier theme in Valses nobles et sentimentales (Example 48) requires an extremely controlled touch at the slow tempo indicated by Ravel. The pianist can perhaps better control the tonal quality of each note by sharing the melody with both hands.”