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Hello, again, Alexander!
For adding each part one by one, I could suggest that maybe you put in a bit of voice-leading for before introducing a part. For this style of piece, it'd be a bit odd to have something not already part of the ostinato leading into it, but if you say, in the organ part, introduced its pattern half way through a measure, that could work quite well.
As for it being over-repetitive at the beginning, I think changing the amount of measures before a change could work nicely. One option would be to change how many bars each time. Say, for instance have 7 bars to begin, then 4 bars before adding the next part, then 6 after that, etc. Another option would be to have an equal amount of measures between each new layer, but making it a more "interesting" amount of bars. Say, for instance, if you had 5 bars, it wouldn't be as long to wait before a change, and it'd be a bit unusual and interesting by itself to have 5 bars. That said, it'd break the two-bar ostinatos, but it might be worth a try. If it doesn't work, 6 measures could.
Anyway, feel free to take or ignore my advice, whichever works best for the piece! And, either way, it'll give you something to think about, hopefully.
Hope it goes well!
Michael.
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