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Dance of the Reed Flutes, from The Nutcracker, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Tchaikovsky wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It keeps 599 of the piece's 1456 notes and adds none: a sketch of the piece in its own notes, to read before the real thing. Level 3 of 7, where the piece as written is level 4.

Level: 3 of 7
As written: Level 4
Notes: 599 of 1456
Key: D major
Time: 2/4
Length: 77 bars

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The whole easy version599 notes

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.

The first 8 bars of Dance of the Reed Flutes, from The Nutcracker, easy version, on the grand staff — The first 8 bars of the easy version.

The piece as written, level 4, and all 4 of its versions are on Dance of the Reed Flutes, from The Nutcracker's page.

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