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I will go with my father a-ploughing

Song

Ivor Gurney · B minor · 70 bars · 105 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 minor, G major, E minor, C minor.