”I find descending broken octaves, especially those that range multiple octaves and cross the body, difficult to execute. With this redistribution, I alternate hands to play the D# (an easy key to find quickly, since it's a black key). I find that I can still retain the quality of the two-note slur, even with this redistribution.”
Submitted by Sarah Rushing
Published on 2/20/2020
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), 123.
Original:
Suggested performance:
“The broken octaves in the right hand can be performed as octaves in the left hand.”
Submitted by Michael Clark
Published on 1/1/2020
“This distribution facilitates the leaps and is more legato.”
Submitted by Michael Clark
Published on 4/18/2020