Since thou, o fondest and truest

3 Songs of Robert Bridges, Op. 43 · No. 1

Charles Villiers Stanford · D major · 77 bars · 130 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: D major.