The Angelus
3 Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose · No. 3
Carrie Jacobs-Bond · E♭ major · 26 bars · 40 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.