Farewell To Stromness

Strathspey · 4/4 · D major

Farewell to Stromness is a contemporary piano piece composed by Peter Maxwell Davies as part of his anti-nuclear theater work The Yellow Cake Revue in 1980. Despite being designated with the data field of a strathspey, the piece functions as a slow, elegiac lament in D major with a steady 4/4 meter. Its gentle, repetitive melody and poignant character have made it one of the composer's most widely recognized and frequently performed works.

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