RAVEL | Le Tombeau de Couperin: Fugue: mm. 35–37

SPECIAL COLLECTION | Dorothy Brandwein’s Ravel Fingerings

Published on 5/3/2022 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), 62, 116.

61: “The articulation of two-note slurs is often indicated within Ravel's larger phrase structures. The following example shows the increased ease of execution of the melodic slurs when the left hand shares some of the notes written on the upper staff.”