The splendour falls

A Cycle of Songs, Op. 68 · No. 3

Charles Villiers Stanford · C♯ minor · 73 bars · 97 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: C♯ minor, A major.