Night Wanderers
Song record peer reviewed by Editorial Board member: Gregory Zavracky| Song Title | Night Wanderers (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Samuel Barber |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+ (Search) |
| Author(s): | W.H. Davies |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Aching; Animals; Bells; Birds; Bones; Cold; Conversation; Coughing; Danger; Daring; Darkness; Deep; Dumbness; Eyes; Falling; Fear; Fearing; Flesh; Foreboding; Giants; Hard; Hate; Hearing; Hoarse; Homelessness; Infants; Iron; Laughing; Listening; Long; Looking; Loved Ones; Madness; Midnight; Mythology; Nature; Nervousness; Night; Observing; Poor; Predators; Searching; Seeing; Shivering; Silence; Sky; Snakes; Solitude; Souls; Sounds; Staring; Stars; Stones; Tolling; Trees; Wanderers; Warnings; Water; Weakness; Wood |
| First Line | They hear the bell of midnight toll (Search) |
| Average Duration | 3:00 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1935 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/get_text.html?TextId=25698 |
| Musical Form | Rounded binary (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Georgian (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Score Source | https://www.halleonard.com/product/viewproduct.action?itemid=50490045 |
| Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/7uIwKaoLZYruCVNi2khBzs |
| Link to IPA Source | https://www.ipasource.com/product/night-wanderers-2/ |
| Difficulty Level | College (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Medium voice |
| Range: | C4 - Eb5 (Search) |
| Original Key | C minor (Search) |
| Notes | Also available in high key (D minor). Davies was known as a "tramp poet" because he was a hobo for much of his life. (Search) |
| Recommended Printed Source | G. Schirmer, "Samuel Barber: 65 Songs" (Search) |
| Sources Cited | Heyman, B. (2012). Samuel Barber : A thematic catalogue of the complete works. New York: Oxford University Press. (Search) |