Editing Ruddigore (section)

==Analysis of music and text==
===Musical content===
<!-- A start – much more needed-->The Sullivan scholar [[Gervase Hughes]] characterised Sir Roderic's song "When the night wind howls" as "unquestionably the finest piece of descriptive music that Sullivan ever wrote, worthy of a place beside [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]]'s ''[[Erlkönig (Schubert)|Erlkönig]]'', [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]]'s overture to ''[[The Flying Dutchman (opera)|The Flying Dutchman]]'', and well above [[Camille Saint-Saëns|Saint-Saëns]]' ''[[Danse macabre (Saint-Saëns)|Danse macabre]]'', all of which are tone-paintings in a similar colour. Although the vocal score gives not a hint of the uncanny brilliance of the orchestration, it demonstrates the sure footholds by which the music in a round dozen bars finds its way from D minor to A flat major and back and the shattering impact of the fortissimo chorus entry at an interrupted cadence on the chord of B flat major. The progressions that follow [represent] an apotheosis of [Sullivan's] matured harmonic resource."<ref>Hughes, p. 55</ref>
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