Book Synopsis
This spiral bound collection contains 10 original compositions with one, "Dark Eyes," containing 6 variations. Some of these pieces are also in my songbooks but I have arranged them for solo piano. The major piece included here is my "Classical Romance, a Fantasy for piano." This piece was part of the fulfillment of my degree requirements for music theory and composition. I have included discussion of the theory in the piece on page 44, and the chords are marked as to what they are and which inversion. The "Classical Romance" contains creative examples of borrowed chords, occasional direct modulation, secondary dominant chords, secondary leading tone chords, Neapolitan sixth chords, augmented sixth chords and “chromatic mediants.”