A rare work by R. Passos do Amaral, this piece serves as a typical example of regional 19th-century salon music. It focuses on melodic grace rather than technical virtuosity.
Focus on the balance between the inner melodic voices and the accompaniment.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Alice is rated Henle level 3 of 9 — late beginner repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 4–5. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 4.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 3 — meaning you can already play level 2–3 pieces cleanly. Learning it one level early is possible as a stretch piece, but more than that usually leads to months of frustration.
A typical performance of Alice lasts about 3 minutes.
Alice is available as free public-domain sheet music on IMSLP — the score is linked directly from this page.
Pieces at a comparable difficulty and character include Für Elise by Ludwig van Beethoven, La fille aux cheveux de lin by Claude Debussy, Bright Eyes by Florence Price — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.