My Heart Stood Still by Richard Rodgers

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 20 · Sections: 8

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

• F – G♯dim7
  I – #ii°7
• Gm7 – C7 – F – Faug (×2)
  ii7 – V7 – I – I+
• Gm7 – C7 – Am7 – D7 – Gm7 – C7
  ii7 – V7 – iii7 – VI7 – ii7 – V7

A Section 2

• F – G♯dim7
  I – #ii°7
• Gm7 – C7 – F – Faug (×2)
  ii7 – V7 – I – I+
• Gm7 – C7 – F6 – B♭6 – F
  ii7 – V7 – I6 – IV6 – I

B Section 1

• Fm – B♭7 – Caug – C – C7 – Dm7♭5 – G7 – C7 – Gm7 – Em7♭5
  i – IV7 – V+ – V – V7 – viø7 – II7 – V7 – ii7 – viiø7

C Section 1

• F – Am – G♯dim7 – Gm7 – C7 – F – Faug – B♭ – Gm7 – F/C – C7 – F – Dm7 – Am – C7
  I – iii – #ii°7 – ii7 – V7 – I – I+ – IV – ii7 – I⁶₄ – V7 – I – vi7 – iii – V7

A Section 3

Same chords as A Section 1.

A Section 4

Same chords as A Section 2.

B Section 2

Same chords as B Section 1.

C Section 2

• F – Am – G♯dim7 – Gm7 – C7 – F – Faug – B♭ – Gm7 – F/C – C7 – F – Dm7 – F
  I – iii – #ii°7 – ii7 – V7 – I – I+ – IV – ii7 – I⁶₄ – V7 – I – vi7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Fm (i) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• Caug (V+) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• D7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Gm7.
• G7 acts as V/V: it resolves to C7.

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.