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Say, o say! saith the music

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

Charles Villiers Stanford · F major · 81 bars · 108 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: F major, A♭ major, E♭ major, B♭ minor.