Roses of Picardy by Haydn Wood

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 31 · Sections: 4

Form: A Section → B 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

• Am – E7 – Am – B7 – Bdim – Am – Fm6 – C – Dm7 – Gaug – C – E7 – Am – B7 – Bdim – Am – F♯7♭5 – Em – B7
  vi – III7 – vi – VII7 – vii° – vi – iv6 – I – ii7 – V+ – I – III7 – vi – VII7 – vii° – vi – #IV7♭5 – iii – VII7

B Section

• E – B9/E – Edim – E – B9 – B7 – E6 – E – G13 – G7 – C6 – E♭7 – G – A7/D – D13
  III – VII9 (bass E) – iii° – III – VII9 – VII7 – III6 – III – V13 – V7 – I6 – bIII7 – V – VI7 (bass D) – II13

C Section

• G7 – G9 – G7 – C6 – G7 – Gaug – C – E7♭5 – A7 – Dm – D9
  V7 – V9 – V7 – I6 – V7 – V+ – I – III7♭5 – VI7 – ii – II9

D Section

• Dm – G9 – G7 – C6 – G7 – Gaug – C – E7 – Aaug7 – A7 – Em7 – A7 – D9 – D7 – G11 – G7 – C
  ii – V9 – V7 – I6 – V7 – V+ – I – III7 – VI+7 – VI7 – iii7 – VI7 – II9 – II7 – V11 – V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Fm6 (iv6) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Gaug (V+) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• E7 acts as V/vi: it resolves to Am.
• A7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Dm.
• D7 acts as V/V: it resolves to G11.

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.