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I Send My Heart up to Thee!

3 Browning Songs, Op. 44 · No. 3

Amy Beach · D♭ major · 49 bars · 55 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, A♭ minor, G♯ minor, A♭ major, C♯ minor.