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Bords de l’Ilissus

Socrate · No. 2

Erik Satie · E minor · 206 bars · 241 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 minor, G major, D major, B minor, A major, D minor, A♭ major, A minor, C minor, F♯ minor, C major.