Introduction & Allegro - Maurice Ravel

Standard: Advanced     Harp Type: Pedal Harp

• There are fingerings and solutions to difficult passages by Henriette Renie, Marcel Grandjany, Pierre Jamet, David Watkins, and Phia Berghout.

• Grandjany performed the piece under Ravel's direction. All of Grandjany's metronome markings for the many tempo changes are included.

• There is a cadenza insert by Grandjany, which was sanctioned by Ravel.

• All of the pedal changes are included, in large easy-to-read type.

• There are pedal diagrams throughout, making practice and rehearsal much easier.

• There is a Preface that covers the early history of the piece, performance considerations, and advice on playing the glissandi.

• There is a list of corrections for each of the instruments, so that everyone will, for the first time, be looking at the same musical information.

• There are footnotes and a glossary that translates all of the French terms.

• This is the first new engraving of the piece since it was composed in 1906, and it is finally engraved the way it is actually played.