Tea-House Moon by Enya

Overview

Key: B♭ major · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 9

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♭ – Gm7 (×3)
  I – vi7

Part 2 (0:19)

• B♭ – Gm7 – E♭6 – F – Gm – E♭6 – F – B♭ – Gm7
  I – vi7 – IV6 – V – vi – IV6 – V – I – vi7

Part 3 (0:37)

• B♭ – Gm7 (×3)
  I – vi7
• E♭6 – F – Gm
  IV6 – V – vi

Part 4 (0:56)

• E♭6 – F – B♭ – E♭6 – F – Gm – E♭6 – F – B♭ – Gm11
  IV6 – V – I – IV6 – V – vi – IV6 – V – I – vi11

Part 5 (1:14)

• B♭ – Gm11 – E♭6 – F – Gm – E♭6 – F – B♭ – Gm11
  I – vi11 – IV6 – V – vi – IV6 – V – I – vi11

Part 6 (1:32)

• B♭ – Gm11 – E♭6 – F – Gm
  I – vi11 – IV6 – V – vi
• E♭6 – F – B♭ (×2)
  IV6 – V – I

Part 7 (1:50)

• E♭6 – F
  IV6 – V
• B♭ – Gm7 (×3)
  I – vi7

Part 8 (2:08)

• B♭ – Gm7 – E♭6 – F – Gm – E♭6 – F – B♭ – E♭6 – F – Gm
  I – vi7 – IV6 – V – vi – IV6 – V – I – IV6 – V – vi

Part 9 (2:26)

• E♭6 – F – B♭
  IV6 – V – I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (The Memory Of Trees), 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 (The Memory Of Trees), 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.