Prelude No. 1

This is a short manageable piece I wrote to get out of my long composition drought. Although I'm still in training, putting my work out online while I'm an amateur is a way to document my progress in learning the art of composition.

The composition process for this piece is outlined in the following steps:

1. I improvised until I came up with the m. 1-4 of the piece, this sounded promising so I stuck with it and found an appropriate response in m. 5-8.
2. I played around with the motif of m. 1-4 by transposing the right hand up a third, but I wanted the pulsation to continue on the same note A, so I transposed everything down a third, resulting in m. 17-20 (though 19-20 are modified later).
3. To connect these two fragments, I wrote a variation of m. 17-20 by creating wandering between i and VI in F minor resulting in m. 9-12, and then a sense of rising in m. 13-16 starting with the fragment idea in m. 5 with the goal of modulating to F minor via the ascending bassline.
4. To create some more activity in the climax, I altered m. 19-20 to launch into a major key variation in m. 21-23.
5. Reaching the highest point in the piece in m. 24, add a dash of the clichéd minor iv with strong contrary motion to punctuate the arrival of the concluding chord.