🎹 Waltz from Masquerade Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Mysterious and haunting, drifting without a horizon — walking at a natural human pace, steady and unwavering in tone.
📥 Downloads
👤 Suggested For
🎹 Concert Pianists
🖐 Large Hands
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
29
weeks to performance-ready
Concert-level material. Mastery takes dedicated long-term commitment.
6hper week
186htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~6h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Expert
84
/ 100
Professional - complex layering and high speed required
3,244
Total Notes
46%
Interleaved
8.58
Avg N/Beat
193
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
17/25
46% of notes interleave - frequent interleaving, needs good independence
⏱
Note Density per Beat
30/30
Busiest beats: 12 notes/beat (avg 8.58) - extremely dense
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
5/20
193 ornamental notes (5.9%) - occasional ornaments
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
10/15
Right: E3–C7 (44 st) | Left: E1–B4 (43 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
10/10
31 st (2Oct+P5) - extreme leaps
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Chromatic Complexity
2/8
23% black-key notes - some accidentals
♬
Polyphony / Voices
7/7
~4.6 notes active per beat (max 8) - contrapuntal texture, multiple independent lines
⏳
Piece Length
3/5
3m 32s - medium length: sustained focus needed
🎚 Dynamics
ff
Moderate dynamics (ff avg) - clear expression required
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🎹 Note Range - Piano Keyboard
Upper dot = RH (Right Hand)
Lower dot = LH (Left Hand)
White dot on black key = sharp/flat note used
📐 Note Range per Hand · Sheet Preview
🤚 Left Hand
| Lowest | E1 |
| Highest | B4 |
| Span | 43 st (3Oct+P5) |
| Notes | 1,603 |
| Widest leap | 31 st E4→A1 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | E3 |
| Highest | C7 |
| Span | 44 st (3Oct+m6) |
| Notes | 1,641 |
| Widest leap | 24 st E6→E4 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 22 semitones (1Oct+m7)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.6 notes · 540 chords
⚠️ 5 stretch chords (>octave)
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.4 notes · 530 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 2 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing.
A few short runs — thumb technique needed but not dominant.
🖐 RH: 2 runs · longest 5 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 2 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
24%
Repeated
Only 23 of 95 bars repeat — this piece is largely through-composed with mostly unique material throughout.
Repeated bar
Unique bar
🎯 Suggested Practice Passages
?Each "passage" is 2 consecutive measures (ô nhịp). The algorithm scores every passage by note density and interval leaps, then picks the 3 hardest for focused practice.
The hardest passages in this piece — spend extra time here before running the full piece.
📍 Measures 24–25
Hardest
📍 Measures 75–76
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 93–94
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is Waltz from Masquerade Piano on piano?
Waltz from Masquerade Piano is rated
Expert
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 84/100.
It was composed by Khachaturian Trio. Only advanced pianists with strong technique, high note density tolerance, and expressive control should attempt this piece. The piece runs approximately 3m 32s. It contains 3,244 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn Waltz from Masquerade Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning Waltz from Masquerade Piano to a
performance-ready level takes approximately
29 weeks
(~186 total practice hours) for a expert level student.
Concert-level material. Mastery takes dedicated long-term commitment.
Where can I download the piano sheet music PDF for Waltz from Masquerade Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for Waltz from Masquerade Piano directly on this page.
The sheet is 8 pages long.
Click the 'PDF Download' button above to get the full score.
What piano level is required to play Waltz from Masquerade Piano?
Waltz from Masquerade Piano is suited for
Expert
level pianists (difficulty score 84/100).
This is expert-level repertoire. Strong sight-reading, high note density stamina, and polished expressive technique are essential.
What is the mood or feel of Waltz from Masquerade Piano?
Mysterious and haunting, drifting without a horizon — walking at a natural human pace, steady and unwavering in tone. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 105 BPM.
