Sailing at Dawn

Songs of the Fleet (Piano), Op. 117 · No. 1

Charles Villiers Stanford · E♭ major · 70 bars · 173 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♭ major, C minor.