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Les tronçons du serpent

Les Orientales · No. 4

Marie Jaëll · A minor · 232 bars · 198 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: A minor, D minor, A major, B♭ minor, E major, D major.