Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Arabian Dance, from The Nutcracker
From The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a (1892), arranged for piano by Stepan Esipoff
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at dotted quarter = 77: the middle of the speeds usually quoted for Allegretto, two thirds of it counted in dotted quarters. Its length counts from that.
Plays on a MIDI keyboard in Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet, or on the keys on screen without one.
Versions
Each easier version only leaves notes out and adds none, so every note in it is the piece's own. Print any of them free.
- As written1365 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand1160 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots358 notes
- Right-hand melody256 notes
The easy version, the melody and left-hand roots at level 3, engraved on its own page.
To practise it on paper: a practice chart for this piece, a week of steps from each hand alone to full tempo, with their speeds.
What it asks of you
- Treble clef from G3 to G6, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from G1 to D4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 2 flats (B♭ major or G minor)
- Accidentals: naturals, flats outside the key, sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, triplets, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: 5ths, 2nds (steps), 4ths, 6ths, 3rds (skips), 7ths
- Chords: inverted triads, triads
- Hands playing together, one hand moving while the other holds, moving the hand to a new position, hands in different rhythms, hands taking turns
What stands between you and this piece
Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.
Score typed for Clefsight from G. Schirmer, New York, 1922, ed. Carl Deis, plate 30587 (scan on the Internet Archive), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in 1893, and so is Stepan Esipoff’s arrangement. Credits