Oh what comes over the Sea

6 Sorrow Songs, Op. 57 · No. 1

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor · 1904 · E minor · 26 bars · 55 chords analysed

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor set six poems by Christina Rossetti about love, loss and memory. 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 minor, G major, C major, D major.