This book contains examples from scores written for solo piano by great composers, mostly Bach and Chopin. At the end of the book, there are full scores. Some of them were obtained from the Internet, where they were published under the Creative Commons No Copyright license (CC0) by the courtesy of wonderful people. Some of the obtained scores were customized by the author of this book. Some of the scores were produced by the author of the book. Both customization and creation was done using MuseScore, a free music publishing software package. Thus, writing this book has been possible only for the benefits of the Sharing Economy. All harmony analyses, chord annotations and harmony annotations were done by the author of this book.
Each score is linked to a YouTube video so that the reader can listen to a performance of it. Each mention of a composition in this book’s text is linked to the beginning of its video on the YouTube. Each figure in the book, which is related to a passage in a composition, is linked to the beginning of the same passage in the YouTube video. To follow the link, the reader should click on it. All links in the book are underlined.