Three Tiny Preludes

These are three short preludes I wrote- most of them are just themes and ideas I didn't really have a use for anywhere else.1. Prelude No. 1 (An Obvious Imitation of Philip Glass)2. Prelude No. 2 (A Pretty Little Melody)3. Prelude No. 3 (A Variation on a Civil War Folk Tune)

Three Tiny Preludes

These are cool, they have the appropriate length for the amount of material, and I like the variety.

I don't know much about Glass, but I"m pretty sure for his post-minimalist stuff, he generally follows rules of common-practice voice leading, at least at a small-scale level. Your right hand is fine, but you have this constant 5th (constant parallel 5th then) in the left hand, which I don't think is Glass-style (someone correct me if I'm wrong). I really like it when the triplets come in, it adds a surprising amount of rhythmic interest.

The second one seemed to end a bit suddenly, but maybe that could be remedied by re-stating the original melody 1 more time, or re-stating the second half another time. Again with all the parallels, but I think it's effective at evoking something child-like. The main thing that bothers me is the dissonance in mm. 3, and again later when it repeats, which is never resolved, it sounds a little strange to leave that hanging.

Fifths are pretty effective here, maybe evoking church bells or something. It's interesting that you left a lot of the harmony as open fifths. I like it. Except that unresolved 64 chord in the second half of 21, which I think would be solved by either moving the G down an octave, or just adding a G a 5th below that D.

Cool pieces! You did a good job making them feel complete, even when they're so short.

Some Variaty..It doesent seem to go any where