Bright is the Ring of Words
| Song Title | Bright is the Ring of Words (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Author(s): | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Acceptance; Bright; Fields; Lovers; Maids; Memories; Moving On; Red; Remembering; Singers; Singing; Songs; Sunset; Traveling; Wings; Words |
| First Line | Bright is the ring of words when the right man rings them (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1904 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=15276 |
| Larger Work | Songs of Travel (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Neo-Romanticism; Modernism (Search) |
| Original Language | English (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/5jvltWOJl8qSedvjOcd2gy |
| Link to IPA Source | https://www.ipasource.com/product/bright-is-the-ring-of-words-3/ |
| Catalog Designation | Songs of Travel, no. 8 (Search) |
| Range: | Ab3 - Db5 (Search) |
| Original Key | C Major (Search) |
| Premiered By | Walter Creighton, baritone and Hamilton Harty, piano (Search) |
| Notes | Numbers 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 Source | https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/songs-of-travel-sheet-music/19978132 (Search) |
| Orchestra and voice? | Yes (Search) |
| Contributor | JEM (Search) |