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Offline mike1515

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Debussy - Danse (Tarantelle Styrienne)
on: April 21, 2011, 05:50:32 PM
This piece isn't well known, but I have to play it in an audition in one month.
I've studied it for a month and now I think I play it well.
But, I have a question:
From bar 62 to bar 68 I have to play repeatedly G# with my left hand, the rythm is 3 quavers, quaver silence, 2 quavers, 3 quavers, quaver silence, 2 quavers and so on, in a 6/8 pulse.
The question is which fingering should I use:
My teacher says: 323,32 323,32 323... with the left hand under the right hand.
But I've seen it performed with the left hand over the right hand with another fingering.
I think the second option suits me better, but i can't figure out the correct fingering, and I won't be able to see my teacher in more than a week.  :(
What's yout opinion on the right fingering of that passage? It's really driving me crazy.

P.D: I've played before some chopin etudes, brahms rhapsody op 79 no.1, many bach's preludes and fugues, some Rachmaninoff preludes and many Cramer or Czerny etudes.
 
Now learning/playing:
-Brahms rhapsody op.79 no.1
-Bach WTC1, BWV 848
-Debussy Tarantelle Styrienne
-Rachmaninoff etudes-tableaux

Offline maykapar1

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Re: Debussy - Danse (Tarantelle Styrienne)
Reply #1 on: April 22, 2011, 06:18:56 AM
This is an interesting and challenging piece.  I have three scores for this and only one shows any fingering for the captivating passage you are asking about. 
Maurice Hinson suggests: 121, 12 321, 12 321... 
I use:  132, 32 132, 32 132...  with the left hand under the right hand.

I tried your right hand under left hand idea with the fingering I use, and it does work, but it's not comfortable for me.  I personally can't see any pitfalls for you in doing it your way.  And I assume you'd use the same fingering with the repeated D#'s starting at bar 79?   I would use the fingering that gives you the most musical result at tempo.

Offline iumonito

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Re: Debussy - Danse (Tarantelle Styrienne)
Reply #2 on: April 22, 2011, 11:42:32 PM
You can play it with just one finger.  Either 2 or 3 may work.  I think that's smoother than jumping around as if this was Alborada del Gracioso, which it isn't.  Those repeated notes should not be so horribly fast that they cannot be played with a happy bouncing of the finger, the wrist and the rotating forearm.

Make sure you let the spring of hitting one note bounce you to the next.
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