Finale from carnival of the animals

[fowler]

Hi,

Recently working on this piece, no not as a duet but the more difficult solo arrangement found on music-scores.com. There are a couple of parts in the piece needing more attention to, one thing is the descending scales using all white keys in both hands, the fingering i would use is 4,3,2,1 for right hand and the opposite with the left, would anyone dissagree with this? is it bad fingering to use? I dont know how many people would be interested in this piece, but what the heck, I love it.

The second thing is the demi-semi quavers played with the right hand near the end of the piece. Considering the tempo of the piece being molto allegro, this passage is tricky to say the least, I was wondering if anyone has played this piece and knows what I mean, because I dont know exactly what fingering to use, I am using 1,2,3,4 for some of the notes and 1,2,3,4,5 for some of the others, but I dont know whats best really, are you supposed to just do that thing with your finger or fingers to just scrape them as it were up the keyboard? I know you have to do that at the start with all them grace notes, there is no other way to do that part.

Thankyou.

[anda]

could you post the passages you're talking about? i think i know which are the ones you were asking about, but i'm not sure, and i don't have the score here. i played the 4-hands piano-solo version (up part), which is very similar to the solo one (i didn't play the solo version, i just sight-read it).

[fowler]

I dont know the exact bar numbers if thats what you mean, not looking at the music at the moment. The demi-semi quaver part is obviously towards the end, and I am wondering whether or not this part is to be played with proper fingering as a scale or just to run your finger across the keys so that the speed is there, or does it really matter.

Another thing is, in exactly the same part I think there is an error in the music on the website, because surely the run is from the b all the way up to an f higher than what the score says, I think its missing the 8va symbol, otherwise you go back down to the e which doesnt seem right, it breaks up the scale then. You wont know what I am on about anyway unless you look at the solo score. This probably is not very popular judging from the amount of relies I have received, oh well. cheers