Prelude in A minor - Written by me in 15 minutes

I wrote this in 15 minutes, and you can definitely tell. I hope you like it though! I tried playing around with some interesting rhythms in this but I hope they don't detract too much from the actual piece.

Hi @lucasa223,

For me this is a composition based on the circle of fifth throughout the piece like a Chaconne when the underlying harmonic structure is unchanged. I think the rhythm is not particularly interesting though, more often it's quavers and dotted quavers, and you can have syncopations, polyrhythms and heimolas (since this piece is in 6/8 time) for more interesting rhythmic devices, just name a few. You can definitely try to write a piece in with longer compostion time to polish the details and make revision! It seems somewhat elementary here with a sentence containing a typical harmonic structure throughout.

Thanks for sharing!

Henry

Yes, this can be written in a short time because it is a short harmonic progression repeated with patterns that present slight variations. In the late baroque or galant style. It's nice, but since the idea is single and short, it's a bit predictable.

The staff have actually been discussing creating a section of the forums for pieces like this that didn't take a long time to write for composers.  I think the method you're using here, like @Luis Hernández already mentioned is to repeat a certain pattern introducing variations to each iteration, which is a somewhat deceptively easy way to write a substantive composition pretty quickly.  Of course, as with all things worth doing, writing variations well that attract the listener and that don't just come off as harmonic pulp can be a challenge.  But I think what you're doing is a really great way to get started with writing variations, and this is how I actually started myself writing a set of organ variations.  I then built on them later and ended up writing a series of fugues as variations.  Thanks for sharing!