La guerrière, ballade héroïque

20 Mélodies · No. 11

Augusta Holmès · B minor · 50 bars · 106 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: B minor, E minor, F minor.