🎹 Shostakovich Romance (From The Gadfly) Piano & Violin
🎭 Emotional Character
Bright and open, like sunlight through a window — patient, letting each moment settle, steady and unwavering in tone.
👤 Suggested For
🏆 Advanced Students
🎹 Concert Pianists
🖐 Large Hands
🎼 Scale Technique Focus
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
24
weeks to performance-ready
Concert-level material. Mastery takes dedicated long-term commitment.
6hper week
156htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~6h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Expert
72
/ 100
Professional - complex layering and high speed required
1,147
Total Notes
60%
Interleaved
7.5
Avg N/Beat
14
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
17/25
60% of notes interleave - frequent interleaving, needs good independence
⏱
Note Density per Beat
20/30
Busiest beats: 10 notes/beat (avg 7.5) - dense passages
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
14 ornamental notes (1.2%) - no significant ornamentation
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
15/15
Right: G3–E6 (33 st) | Left: F1–C6 (55 st)
↕
Largest Interval Leap
10/10
43 st (3Oct+P5) - extreme leaps
#
Chromatic Complexity
2/8
12% black-key notes - some accidentals
♬
Polyphony / Voices
7/7
~5.6 notes active per beat (max 9) - contrapuntal texture, multiple independent lines
⏳
Piece Length
1/5
2m 34s - short-medium length
🎚 Dynamics
mf
Moderate dynamics (mf 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 | F1 |
| Highest | C6 |
| Span | 55 st (4Oct+P5) |
| Notes | 942 |
| Widest leap | 43 st G5→C2 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | G3 |
| Highest | E6 |
| Span | 33 st (2Oct+M6) |
| Notes | 205 |
| Widest leap | 24 st G5→G3 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 48 semitones (4 Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 3 notes · 307 chords
⚠️ 87 stretch chords (>octave)
Right Hand
Max chord span: 9 semitones (M6)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 27 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 4 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing.
Moderate scale work — thumb crossings appear in key passages.
🖐 RH: 4 runs · longest 11 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 2 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
3%
Repeated
Only 1 of 39 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 8–9
Hardest
📍 Measures 22–23
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 24–25
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is Shostakovich Romance (From The Gadfly) Piano & Violin on piano?
Shostakovich Romance (From The Gadfly) Piano & Violin is rated
Expert
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 72/100.
It was composed by Dmitri Shostakovich. Only advanced pianists with strong technique, high note density tolerance, and expressive control should attempt this piece. The piece runs approximately 2m 34s. It contains 1,147 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn Shostakovich Romance (From The Gadfly) Piano & Violin?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning Shostakovich Romance (From The Gadfly) Piano & Violin to a
performance-ready level takes approximately
24 weeks
(~156 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 Shostakovich Romance (From The Gadfly) Piano & Violin?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for Shostakovich Romance (From The Gadfly) Piano & Violin directly on this page.
The sheet is 5 pages long.
Click the 'PDF Download' button above to get the full score.
Is there a video tutorial for Shostakovich Romance (From The Gadfly) Piano & Violin piano?
Yes — a piano video tutorial for Shostakovich Romance (From The Gadfly) Piano & Violin is embedded on this page.
You can watch it here or follow the 'Play on YouTube' link.
The tutorial covers the full arrangement at 60 BPM.
What piano level is required to play Shostakovich Romance (From The Gadfly) Piano & Violin?
Shostakovich Romance (From The Gadfly) Piano & Violin is suited for
Expert
level pianists (difficulty score 72/100).
This is expert-level repertoire. Strong sight-reading, high note density stamina, and polished expressive technique are essential.
