Prelude in C minor

This is the second piece in my set of preludes. each prelude is defining how I see each key So I see C minor as stormy and aggressive. so I've tried to replicate that here. 

Just a note on performance the ending should have more of a ritardando but I had no clue how to notate that in 

I hope you enjoy and any feedback would be very helpful!

This is a very exciting prelude, and I think it displays well your growing prowess in meandering through neighboring tonalities. In particular, I enjoyed those cadential dim7 chords at m.3, for instance... made the piece sound extra 'stormy.'

There were a couple of places that lacked a convincing cadence, though, at least to my ears. At m.9, that descending run through a C harmonic minor scale atop a block C minor chord was too musically abrupt. While this may have been intentional to add to the character of the piece, it came across, to me, as a mistake. You could probably continue the stepwise pattern down from the previous measure (which ends in a tremoloed G in the bass) to F then Eb then D, and this will, I think, provide a better cadential feel than the immediate switch back to the tonic. (You'll need to adjust your notes in the treble clef, too, of course.)

Measures 13-20 proceeded too quickly through various tonalities for my tastes. I would suggest either doubling the amount of time spent in each tonality (Eb in m. 14, for instance) or getting rid of some of those chord progressions altogether. Nothing about this section felt 'wrong,' however. It just seemed to be a quick departure into major tonalities for the sake of departing into major tonalities.

Overall, though, you've done a great job here. I look forward to hearing more of your stuff!

37 minutes ago, Tónskáld said:

This is a very exciting prelude, and I think it displays well your growing prowess in meandering through neighboring tonalities. In particular, I enjoyed those cadential dim7 chords at m.3, for instance... made the piece sound extra 'stormy.'

There were a couple of places that lacked a convincing cadence, though, at least to my ears. At m.9, that descending run through a C harmonic minor scale atop a block C minor chord was too musically abrupt. While this may have been intentional to add to the character of the piece, it came across, to me, as a mistake. You could probably continue the stepwise pattern down from the previous measure (which ends in a tremoloed G in the bass) to F then Eb then D, and this will, I think, provide a better cadential feel than the immediate switch back to the tonic. (You'll need to adjust your notes in the treble clef, too, of course.)

Measures 13-20 proceeded too quickly through various tonalities for my tastes. I would suggest either doubling the amount of time spent in each tonality (Eb in m. 14, for instance) or getting rid of some of those chord progressions altogether. Nothing about this section felt 'wrong,' however. It just seemed to be a quick departure into major tonalities for the sake of departing into major tonalities.

Overall, though, you've done a great job here. I look forward to hearing more of your stuff!

 

Thanks for the reply! also I appreciate you've noticed how I'm improving.moving through various tonalities is an area where I do need to improve on. Generally these preludes are more of an exercise for myself for working in each key and determining my feel towards them. as such I'm writing them very quickly and just writing what come to my head. when I go over them and improve them It will be as a set rather than individually. 

Of course thank you for the feedback!