Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Chinese 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 quarter note = 138: the middle of the speeds usually quoted for Allegro. Its length counts from that.
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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 written719 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand714 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots312 notes
- Right-hand melody280 notes
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 B3 to B6, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from B1 to D4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 2 flats (B♭ major or G minor)
- Accidentals: flats outside the key, naturals
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, triplets
- Intervals: 3rds (skips), 2nds (steps), octaves, 4ths, 7ths, 10ths
- Chords: inverted triads
- Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, 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