Young Pieces for Short Pianists

I started writing these pieces when my nephew was taking a beginning piano class that used electronic keyboards with no pedals. I thought this posed an interesting constraint, so the ground-rules I've set for myself are that each piece must (1) be short and not very difficult, (2) highlight some musical concept or technique, and of course (3) not use the pedal.

Copy Robot Model Z-36 highlights whole-tone scales. Young nephew was enjoying repeating everything that his aunt and uncle said to him; his explanation that was that he was "Copy Robot Model Z-36" (and Z is pronounced "zed", by the way). To be fair, nephew is no longer so young or so short.

Quiet Mind highlights intervals. The right hand is mostly playing a melody in thirds while the left plays a bass line built on arpeggios of thirds, fourths, and fifths.

Uncertain Steps was provoked by Clark Ross's blog post on pandiatonicism, and his charge to his students to write music that was diatonic but not tonal. I thought that was an interesting challenge, so I used it as an opportunity to highlight quartic harmonies. And to answer Clark's question, no, pandiatonicism isn't a thing.