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Topic: Ravel's tremolos  (Read 1384 times)

Offline Rach3

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Ravel's tremolos
on: November 11, 2005, 10:03:07 AM
I've recently come to appreciate Ravel's music much more, for no reason in particular. I'm looking around for some of his solo works to learn - at the moment I've been looking at the Sonatine or Gaspard de la nuit. Anyone here who plays lots of Ravel have advice from experience? Maybe recommendations to a piece? I'll be discussing this at my lesson later this afternoon.

On the title topic: what technique works best for the repeated-note passages in Scarbo? E.g. the opening tremolos, and the scherzo-like motif on page 3 (D#-D#-D#-E-F#F#-F#-F#-F#-E-D#...)?

Thanks for reading this.
-Rach3
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Offline g_s_223

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Re: Ravel's tremolos
Reply #1 on: November 11, 2005, 01:53:22 PM
As a collection, I like Miroirs best: magnificent piano writing I think. Challenging too, of course...

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Re: Ravel's tremolos
Reply #2 on: November 18, 2005, 03:19:09 AM
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the opening tremolos, and the scherzo-like motif on page 3 (D#-D#-D#-E-F#F#-F#-F#-F#-E-D#...)?

So no one's played this I presume?

(still waiting for a fingering...)
"Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them."
--Richard Wagner
 

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