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Out in the windy West

Choral Songs in Honour of Her Majesty Queen Victoria · No. 2

Walter Parratt · F major · 176 bars · 204 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: F major, C major, A minor, D minor, B♭ minor, A♭ major, B♭ major, G minor.