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Hark! The world is full of thy praise

Choral Songs in Honour of Her Majesty Queen Victoria · No. 3

Walter Parratt · G major · 106 bars · 152 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: G major, B minor, D major, A minor, E♭ major.