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Till I Wake

5 Songs of Laurence Hope · No. 5

Harry T. Burleigh · 1915 · D minor · 86 bars · 98 chords analysed

Harry T. Burleigh — a singer, composer and the arranger who brought spirituals to the concert hall — set poems by “Laurence Hope”, the pen name of Adela Florence Nicolson. 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 minor, C major, F major, B♭ major, G minor.