A contemporary character piece by Robert Cummings that explores bold harmonic language. It is distinctive for its angular melodic lines and shifting tonal centers.
Work on achieving a balance between the dense, percussive chords and the more lyrical interior voices.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Bucephales 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 Bucephales lasts about 4 minutes.
Bucephales 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 Allegro in A major by Max Reger, Bohaterowi! by Karol Kurpiński, Bergfahrt by Philipp Scharwenka — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.