Flora's Secret by Enya

Overview

Key: B major · Chords used: 11 · Sections: 24

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Part 1 (0:00)

• B
  I

Part 2 (0:10)

• C♯m – F♯7 – B – Emaj7 – F♯ – B – F♯
  ii – V7 – I – IVmaj7 – V – I – V

Part 3 (0:20)

• B – C♯m – F♯7 – B – Emaj7 – F♯ – B
  I – ii – V7 – I – IVmaj7 – V – I

Part 4 (0:30)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:10).

Part 5 (0:40)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:20).

Part 6 (0:51)

• E – F♯ – D♯m – G♯m – E – C♯m – F♯
  IV – V – iii – vi – IV – ii – V

Part 7 (1:01)

• E – F♯ – D♯m – G♯m – E – C♯m – F♯7
  IV – V – iii – vi – IV – ii – V7

Part 8 (1:11)

• B – C♯m – F♯7 – B – Emaj7 – F♯ – B – F♯
  I – ii – V7 – I – IVmaj7 – V – I – V

Part 9 (1:21)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:20).

Part 10 (1:31)

• E – F♯7 – C♯m – G♯m – E – C♯m – F♯7
  IV – V7 – ii – vi – IV – ii – V7

Part 11 (1:41)

• E – F♯ – C♯m – G♯m – E – C♯m – F♯7
  IV – V – ii – vi – IV – ii – V7

Part 12 (1:51)

Same chords as Part 8 (1:11).

Part 13 (2:01)

• B – C♯m – F♯7 – B – Emaj7 – F♯ – G♯m – D♯5
  I – ii – V7 – I – IVmaj7 – V – vi – III5

Part 14 (2:12)

• E – F♯ – B – D – A
  IV – V – I – bIII – bVII

Part 15 (2:22)

• E – B – D – A – E – F♯ – D – A
  IV – I – bIII – bVII – IV – V – bIII – bVII

Part 16 (2:32)

• E – B – D – A – E – F♯
  IV – I – bIII – bVII – IV – V

Part 17 (2:42)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:20).

Part 18 (2:52)

• F♯ – B – C♯m – F♯7 – B – Emaj7 – F♯ – B
  V – I – ii – V7 – I – IVmaj7 – V – I

Part 19 (3:02)

• C♯m – F♯7 – B – Emaj7
  ii – V7 – I – IVmaj7
• F♯ – B (×2)
  V – I

Part 20 (3:12)

• C♯m – F♯7 – B – Emaj7 – F♯ – B – C♯m – F♯7
  ii – V7 – I – IVmaj7 – V – I – ii – V7

Part 21 (3:22)

• B – Emaj7
  I – IVmaj7
• F♯ – B (×2)
  V – I
• C♯m – F♯
  ii – V

Part 22 (3:33)

• B – Emaj7 – F♯ – G♯m – D♯5 – Emaj7 – F♯ – B
  I – IVmaj7 – V – vi – III5 – IVmaj7 – V – I

Part 23 (3:43)

• D♯5 – Emaj7 – F♯ – G♯m – D♯5 – Emaj7 – F♯ – B
  III5 – IVmaj7 – V – vi – III5 – IVmaj7 – V – I

Part 24 (3:53)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• D (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, B minor.
• A (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, B minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (A Day Without Rain), time-stamped by researchers; CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo.
• Section names: this annotation doesn't name verses or choruses, so they aren't guessed. Instead, code used the chord timings to find the bars and cut the song into 8-bar parts. Each part is labelled with the time it starts in the annotated recording (A Day Without Rain), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• The key was estimated by code from the chords; this annotation doesn't state it.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.