Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Russian Dance (Trepak), 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 = 174: the middle of the speeds usually taken for Tempo di trepak, molto vivace. 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 written1029 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand737 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots463 notes
- Right-hand melody387 notes
The easy version, the melody and a simpler left hand 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 A3 to G6, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from G1 to E4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 1 sharp (G major or E minor)
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key, naturals
- Rhythm: quarter notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, triplets, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 5ths, 4ths, octaves, 3rds (skips), 6ths
- Chords: inverted triads, 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