I really enjoyed creating my Prelude and Fugue in A Flat, and so I made another one in B Flat. I'm thinking I might create a series of 12 of these. I don't think I'll create 24 like Shostakovich or Bach because, strictly speaking, these pieces aren't tonal (they're modal), so it doesn't really make that much sense to distinguish between "Major" and "minor" keys (for those of you who don't know, there are 12 notes in the chromatic scale, and in classical tonal literature, each note has a Major and a minor key, for a total of 24 keys; but since my pieces aren't classically tonal, it makes more sense to just write one piece per note, rather than two).
The Prelude, in this case, is the kind of piece I imagine Beethoven might write if he were a minimalist. The three-part Fugue is very much in keeping with what Shostakovich and Bach did, in terms of its stylistic content.
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