Pieces › Eleanor Everest Freer

The boat is chafing at our long delay

2 Songs, Op. 16 · No. 1

Eleanor Everest Freer · E♭ major · 22 bars · 12 chords analysed

A song (in German, a Lied) sets a poem for voice and piano. The piano is a full partner: it paints the scene, the weather and the singer's mood. This score comes from the OpenScore Lieder Corpus, a free collection of 19th-century songs that includes many women composers.

Keys visited: E♭ major, G major, E major.