Prelude con fughetta is written in the "New Dutch" romantic style, reflecting influences of Flemish romantic carillon music, but incorporating a broader harmonic vocabulary. It employs toccata manual figurations over slower pedal themes, contrasting slower passages using arpeggios, tremolo, and bold block chords, as well as a carefully-written, idiomatic fugal section, leading to a final return of the opening toccata figuration.

—The GCNA