Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Dance of the Reed Flutes, 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 = 114: the middle of the speeds usually quoted for Moderato. 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 written1456 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand896 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots599 notes
- Right-hand melody522 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 A1 to G4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 2 sharps (D major or B minor)
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key, naturals
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, triplets, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: 6ths, octaves, 5ths, 4ths, 3rds (skips), 7ths
- Chords: triads, inverted triads
- Hands playing together, one hand moving while the other holds, moving the hand to a new position, 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 30537 (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