RAVEL | Le Tombeau de Couperin: Toccata: mm. 5–8

 
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), 30, 122.

30: “Example 11 illustrates measures from the ‘Toccata’ where repetitive shifts of the thumb can be partially averted with divisi fingering.”

 
Solo Piano, Special CollectionMichael ClarkMaurice Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin, LTdC Toccata, Dorothy Brandwein, redistribution, divide more evenly between hands, break up running passage, avoid stretch, reduce position shiftsComment