The Roadside Fire

Song TitleThe Roadside Fire (Search)
Composer(s):Ralph Vaughan Williams
Author(s):Robert Louis Stevenson
Keyword(s) & Features: Admiring; Blue; Brooches; Delight; Dreaming; Fire; Forests; Green; Happiness; Longing; Love; Memories; Morning; Music; Night; Remembering; Rivers; Roads; Seas; Singing; Songs; Toys; Traveling; White
First LineI will make you brooches and toys for your delight (Search)
Year of composition 1904 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=15299
Larger WorkSongs of Travel (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsNeo-Romanticism; Modernism (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/3/3d/IMSLP96383-PMLP183796-Vaughan_Williams_-_Songs_of_Travel.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/078KK43NUEUQbvZGy1hgjN
Link to IPA Source https://www.ipasource.com/product/the-roadside-fire/
Catalog DesignationSongs of Travel, no. 3 (Search)
Range: B3 - E5 (Search)
Original KeyDb Major (Search)
Premiered ByWalter Creighton, baritone and Hamilton Harty, piano (Search)
NotesNumbers 1-8 were premiered in December 1904. The ninth song was rediscovered in Vaughan Williams' papers after his death. The complete cycle was not performed until 1960. (Search)
Recommended Printed Sourcehttps://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/songs-of-travel-sheet-music/19978129 (Search)
Orchestra and voice?Yes (Search)
ContributorJEM (Search)
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