Fare Well

Songs of the Fleet (Piano), Op. 117 · No. 5

Charles Villiers Stanford · A♭ major · 73 bars · 106 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: A♭ major, F minor.