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EIGHT PIECES FOR PIANO SOLO

(CHOPIN STUDIES)

SPENCER HUFFMAN

1985

CONTENTS TITLE PAGE Polonaise……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 1 Impromptu……………………………………………………………………………………………. 13 Mazurka #1……………………………………………………………………………………………. 21 Mazurka #2…………………………………………………………………………………………… 25 Mazurka #3…………………………………………………………………………………………… 29 Waltz…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 37 Nocturne #1…………………………………………………………………………………………… 45 Nocturne #2…………………………………………………………………………………………… 51 Note: The eight Chopin Studies of Spencer Huffman, one of his later sets of compositions, were composed in 1985.They were written as a tribute to the beauty of Chopin’s piano writing, and also to serve as examples for composition students of harmonic and stylistic devices similar to those used by Chopin.