This is an alternate catalog entry for the Brazelton piece, reflecting the full name of the composer. It serves as a representative example of 20th-century American educational piano music modeled on traditional European dance forms.
Students must develop a steady light-wrist technique to prevent fatigue during the continuous 6/8 movement.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Alla Tarantella is rated Henle level 4 of 9 — intermediate repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 5–6. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 6.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 4 — meaning you can already play level 3–4 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 Alla Tarantella lasts about 3 minutes.
Alla Tarantella 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 Alexander's Ragtime Band by Irving Berlin, Canto del guajiro by Ernesto Lecuona, Black and White Rag by George Botsford — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.