Louise by Richard A. Whiting

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 4

Form: A Section → A Section → Bridge → A Section

Where these chords come from: a lead sheet of this public-domain song, contributed by a musician to the Wikifonia archive and preserved in the OpenEWLD lead-sheet collection (Simonetta et al., 2018). It describes the song as written, not any particular recording. This page shows that lead sheet as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

A Section 1

• F – Faug – F6 – Faug – F – Dm7 – G7 – Am7 – A♭dim7
  I – I+ – I6 – I+ – I – vi7 – II7 – iii7 – biii°7
• Gm7 – C7 (×3)
  ii7 – V7

A Section 2

• F – Faug – F6 – Faug – F – Dm7 – G7 – Am7 – A♭dim7
  I – I+ – I6 – I+ – I – vi7 – II7 – iii7 – biii°7
• Gm7 – C7 (×2)
  ii7 – V7
• Fmaj7 – Bdim7 – E7
  Imaj7 – #iv°7 – VII7

Bridge

• Am7
  iii7
• Bdim7 – E7 (×2)
  #iv°7 – VII7
• Am7 – D7 – G7 – Gm7 – C7
  iii7 – VI7 – II7 – ii7 – V7

A Section 3

• F – Faug – F6 – Faug – F – Dm7 – G7 – Am7 – A♭dim7
  I – I+ – I6 – I+ – I – vi7 – II7 – iii7 – biii°7
• Gm7 – C7 (×2)
  ii7 – V7
• Fmaj7
  Imaj7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• E7 acts as V/iii: it resolves to Am7.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the OpenEWLD lead-sheet collection (Simonetta et al., 2018). Community-contributed lead sheet (chord symbols over the melody) from the Wikifonia archive, MIT licence. Title and songwriter credit as written on the sheet.
• Section names: detected by code from repeated 8-, 12- and 16-bar phrases (letters such as A and B mark different phrases; a phrase that comes back keeps its letter). Lead sheets rarely print section names.
• Not verified: only one lead sheet of this song is available, so it hasn't been cross-checked.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.