Stella By Starlight
Victor Young
Medium SwingBb4/4
29
chords
20
different scales
8
tonal centres
First bars
E-7b5A7(b9)C-7F7
Twenty-nine chords and twenty different scales. Nearly a new scale per chord — the highest density in the library relative to the length of the tune.
It opens on a half-diminished chord, which is unusual in itself, and there are six in all. Stella never settles anywhere: eight tonal centres in twenty-nine chords, and the home key only really arrives in the last bar.

