La Mort des Amants

Cinq Poëmes de Baudelaire · No. 5

Claude Debussy · G♭ major · 48 bars · 73 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: G♭ major, E major, C major, C minor, F♯ major.