Assynt of the Shadows

Songs of a Roving Celt, Op. 157 · No. 2

Charles Villiers Stanford · D minor · 65 bars · 93 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 minor, G minor, B♭ major.