Prelude No. 3

This is an old composition I wrote in 2016 which I liked so decided to revise it for this prelude set I'm currently writing.

There are a lot of things in this piece I wouldn't do if I were composing it today, e.g. really obvious parallel 5ths in m. 9-11. But I really liked the spirit of this piece so I wanted to preserve as much of it as possible.

Check out how poorly notated it was before:

It's not obvious at all what the arpeggiating chord key on the 3rd beat of m. 2 is in this score, C♮-G♯-E♭? Contrast that with the thumbnail of the video above on the 4th beat of m. 1, B♯-G♯-D♯, much easier to parse that it's a G♯ major chord in first inversion. Also in m. 6 the right hand melody goes to E♭ instead of D♯, I must have been playing MIDI notes directly into Sibelius.

Some self-criticism:

• Very rigid and static structure, 2 bars of an idea, then 2 bars of a similar idea, and then repetition of those 4 bars, and the return of this 4 bar fragment is a fairly verbatim transposition of its initial presentation. No "fluidity".
• Parallel 5ths on the strong beats in m. 17-19.
• Parallel 8ths in m. 9 between bottom voice of RH and LH starting from the first beat with the notes A-B.