The Vagabond
| Song Title | The Vagabond (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Author(s): | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Autumn; Beds; Birds; Blue; Bread; Bushes; Cold; Communion; Fate; Fields; Fingers; Firesides; Free will; Friends; Heaven; Homelessness; Hope; Hypothermia; Inevitability; Life; Love; Loving; Outdoors; Powerlessness; Rivers; Roads; Solitude; Stars; Time Passing; Traveling; Trees; Wealth; Winter |
| First Line | Give to me the life I love (Search) |
| Average Duration | 3:15 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1904 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/assemble_texts.html?SongCycleId=30 |
| Larger Work | Songs of Travel (Search) |
| Musical Form | Modified strophic (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/53MBX3qSC52TB3dMwxz31c |
| Link to IPA Source | https://www.ipasource.com/product/the-vagabond-6/ |
| Catalog Designation | Songs of Travel, no. 1 (Search) |
| Range: | A3 - Eb5 (Search) |
| Original Key | C minor (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/19978127 (Search) |
| Orchestra and voice? | Yes (Search) |