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Loveliest of trees, the Cherry now

6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad · No. 1

George Butterworth · E major · 48 bars · 84 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: E major, C♯ minor.