RAVEL | Le Tombeau de Couperin: Toccata: mm. 173–75

 
Piano fingerings for Toccata from Le Tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel

SPECIAL COLLECTION | Dorothy Brandwein’s Ravel Fingerings

Published on 5/5/2022 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), 46, 123.

46: “The passage shown in Example 29 is yet another illustration of the way divisi fingering can give speed and clarity to repeated notes. In these measures, facility is increased when the left hand plays every other group of two repeated notes; the right hand then has more time to find the dominant-seventh chord positions”

 
Solo Piano, Special CollectionMichael ClarkMaurice Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin, LTdC Toccata, Dorothy Brandwein, redistribution, reduce position shifts, repeated notes, break up running passage, divide more evenly between handsComment