La flûte de Pan

Trois Chansons de Bilitis · No. 1

Claude Debussy · B major · 30 bars · 44 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: B major, F♯ major, E minor.