Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Miniature Overture, 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.
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 written2355 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand1881 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots1155 notes
- Right-hand melody973 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 G3 to C7, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from A2 to G4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 2 flats (B♭ major or G minor)
- Accidentals: flats outside the key, naturals
- Rhythm: quarter notes, whole notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 4ths, 5ths, 3rds (skips), 6ths, 7ths
- Chords: triads, inverted triads, seventh chords
- Hands playing together, one hand moving while the other holds, moving the hand to a new position, hands taking turns, hands in different rhythms
Sections
The piece in 24 sections, cut where its music breaks, each read at its own level. Tap one to loop it on the stand until it's clean, then the next.
- Bars 1–8level 3 of 7
- Bars 9–16level 4 of 7
- Bars 17–24level 4 of 7
- Bars 25–32level 6 of 7
- Bars 33–40level 5 of 7
- Bars 41–47level 4 of 7
- Bars 48–54level 5 of 7
- Bars 55–61level 5 of 7
- Bars 62–68level 4 of 7
- Bars 69–75level 5 of 7
- Bars 76–82level 5 of 7
- Bars 83–89level 4 of 7
- Bars 90–97level 3 of 7
- Bars 98–105level 4 of 7
- Bars 106–113level 4 of 7
- Bars 114–121level 6 of 7
- Bars 122–129level 5 of 7
- Bars 130–137level 4 of 7
- Bars 138–145level 4 of 7
- Bars 146–153level 4 of 7
- Bars 154–161level 5 of 7
- Bars 162–168level 5 of 7
- Bars 169–175level 4 of 7
- Bars 176–182level 3 of 7
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
Checked against the edition. Typed twice from the scan, each time without seeing the other, then compared bar by bar; the two agreed in every bar. How we check