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Russian Dance (Trepak), from The Nutcracker, easy version

Melody and a simpler left hand

The melody as Tchaikovsky wrote it, with each left-hand chord cut to its top and bottom notes. It leaves out 292 of the piece's 1029 notes and adds none, so it is still the real piece: level 3 of 7, where the piece as written is level 4.

Level: 3 of 7
As written: Level 4
Notes: 737 of 1029
Key: G major
Time: 2/4
Length: 76 bars

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The whole easy version737 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 Russian Dance (Trepak), 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 Russian Dance (Trepak), from The Nutcracker's page.

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