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A Century’s Penultimate

Choral Songs in Honour of Her Majesty Queen Victoria · No. 8

Walter Parratt · D major · 95 bars · 146 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: D major, F♯ major, B minor, D minor, G minor.