Je Crois Entendre Encore by Georges Bizet

Overview

Key: A minor · Chords used: 18 · Sections: 9

Form: A Section → B Section → A Section → C Section → A Section → B Section → A Section → C Section → D Section

Where these chords come from: a lead sheet of this public-domain song, contributed by a musician to the Wikifonia archive and preserved in the OpenEWLD lead-sheet collection (Simonetta et al., 2018). It describes the song as written, not any particular recording. This page shows that lead sheet 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

A Section 1

• Am – Dm (×2)
  i – iv
• Am
  i

B Section 1

• E7 – F (×2)
  V7 – bVI
• B – B7 – E7 – E7/D – E7/C – E7/B
  II – II7 – V7 – V⁴₂ – V7 (bass C) – V⁴₃

A Section 2

• Am – Dm – Am – A7 – Dm – G
  i – iv – i – I7 – iv – bVII

C Section 1

• Em – Dm – E7 – Am – Dm6 – Am – E7 – Am – Dm – E7
  v – iv – V7 – i – iv6 – i – V7 – i – iv – V7

A Section 3

Same chords as A Section 1.

B Section 2

Same chords as B Section 1.

A Section 4

Same chords as A Section 2.

C Section 2

• Em – Dm – E7 – Am – Dm6 – Am – E7 – Am
  v – iv – V7 – i – iv6 – i – V7 – i

D Section

• Am – G7 – C – E7/B – Am – Am7/G – Am6/F♯ – F – E7 – Am – Am6
  i – bVII7 – bIII – V⁴₃ – i – i⁴₂ – i6 (bass F♯) – bVI – V7 – i – i6

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B7 acts as V/V: it resolves to E7.
• A7 acts as V/iv: it resolves to Dm.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the OpenEWLD lead-sheet collection (Simonetta et al., 2018). Community-contributed lead sheet (chord symbols over the melody) from the Wikifonia archive, MIT licence. Title and songwriter credit as written on the sheet.
• Section names: detected by code from repeated 8-, 12- and 16-bar phrases (letters such as A and B mark different phrases; a phrase that comes back keeps its letter). Lead sheets rarely print section names.
• Not verified: only one lead sheet of this song is available, so it hasn't been cross-checked.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.