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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)

Waltz of the Flowers, from The Nutcracker

From The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a (1892), arranged for piano by Stepan Esipoff

In Easy Christmas music

In The Nutcracker

Level
4 of 7
Time
3/4
Length
389 bars
Plays in
6 to 11 min

No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 136: the middle of the speeds usually taken for Tempo di valzer. Its length counts from that.

Practise it

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 opening bars of Waltz of the Flowers, from The Nutcracker
The opening bars

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 written4484 notes
  • Melody and a simpler left hand3283 notes
  • Melody and left-hand roots1718 notes
  • Right-hand melody1330 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 D1 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, whole notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, triplets
  • Intervals: 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), octaves, 4ths, 5ths, 6ths
  • Chords: triads, inverted triads, seventh chords
  • Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, hands taking turns, hands in different rhythms

Sections

The piece in 42 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.

  1. Bars 1–8level 4 of 7
  2. Bars 9–16level 4 of 7
  3. Bars 17–22level 4 of 7
  4. Bars 23–28level 4 of 7
  5. Bars 29–33level 4 of 7
  6. Bars 34–37level 3 of 7
  7. Bars 38–45played twicelevel 4 of 7
  8. Bars 46–53played twicelevel 4 of 7
  9. Bars 54–61played twicelevel 4 of 7
  10. Bars 62–69played twicelevel 5 of 7
  11. Bars 70–77played twicelevel 3 of 7
  12. Bars 78–85played twicelevel 4 of 7
  13. Bars 86–93played twicelevel 3 of 7
  14. Bars 94–101played twicelevel 4 of 7
  15. Bars 104–111level 4 of 7
  16. Bars 112–119level 4 of 7
  17. Bars 120–127level 4 of 7
  18. Bars 128–135level 4 of 7
  19. Bars 136–143level 4 of 7
  20. Bars 144–151level 4 of 7
  21. Bars 152–159level 4 of 7
  22. Bars 160–167level 4 of 7
  23. Bars 168–175level 4 of 7
  24. Bars 176–183level 3 of 7
  25. Bars 184–191level 4 of 7
  26. Bars 192–199level 4 of 7
  27. Bars 200–207level 4 of 7
  28. Bars 208–215level 5 of 7
  29. Bars 216–223level 4 of 7
  30. Bars 224–231level 3 of 7
  31. Bars 232–239level 4 of 7
  32. Bars 240–247level 3 of 7
  33. Bars 248–255level 4 of 7
  34. Bars 256–263level 6 of 7
  35. Bars 264–271level 7 of 7, the hardest
  36. Bars 272–279level 6 of 7
  37. Bars 280–287level 6 of 7
  38. Bars 288–295level 5 of 7
  39. Bars 296–303level 5 of 7
  40. Bars 304–311level 5 of 7
  41. Bars 312–319level 4 of 7
  42. Bars 320–327level 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

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