So I am trying to compose an impromptu. I know that it is a piece where it supposed to sound improvisatory in nature. I have the first 10 measures down and honestly, only the last 2 sound like they were improvised. Scalar sixteenth notes going across the entire scale(and almost the entire bass clef range as well) over a single C minor chord.
The ones before it sound very formulaic, like a sonata theme almost. Of course, this is only the introduction and I will have a transition where the music slowly accelerates from the slow Allegro it is at right now to a Presto tempo and then have the A section be at Presto.
This is what the first 10 measures sound like:
View attachment Impromptu_no._1_in_C_minor.mp3
That almost formulaic sound of most of the measures kind of goes against what an impromptu really is. But I assume this is okay for an introduction and that as long as I have that Presto section sound improvisatory in nature, there is nothing wrong with me calling it an impromptu, even with the formulaic sounding introduction.
I chose the key of C minor because this is the key in which I find improvising to be the easiest. I also can easily do something like bVII -> I and it sounds to me, just as good as Vm7 -> I. V7 in C minor to me gives too much of an expectation that the next chord will be C major. Of course, if I wanted to modulate to C major, I would likely use this dominant 7th chord.
But is there anything that would help in writing an impromptu besides improvising?
The ones before it sound very formulaic, like a sonata theme almost. Of course, this is only the introduction and I will have a transition where the music slowly accelerates from the slow Allegro it is at right now to a Presto tempo and then have the A section be at Presto.
This is what the first 10 measures sound like:
View attachment Impromptu_no._1_in_C_minor.mp3
That almost formulaic sound of most of the measures kind of goes against what an impromptu really is. But I assume this is okay for an introduction and that as long as I have that Presto section sound improvisatory in nature, there is nothing wrong with me calling it an impromptu, even with the formulaic sounding introduction.
I chose the key of C minor because this is the key in which I find improvising to be the easiest. I also can easily do something like bVII -> I and it sounds to me, just as good as Vm7 -> I. V7 in C minor to me gives too much of an expectation that the next chord will be C major. Of course, if I wanted to modulate to C major, I would likely use this dominant 7th chord.
But is there anything that would help in writing an impromptu besides improvising?