Let Beauty Awake
| Song Title | Let Beauty Awake (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Author(s): | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Awakening; Beautiful; Beauty; Birds; Crimson; Dusk; Evening; Friends; Love; Metaphor: Sexual Inactivity as Sleep; Morning; Romance; Sexual Awakening; Slumbering; Tender; Traveling; Youth |
| First Line | Let Beauty awake in the morn from beautiful dreams, Beauty awake from rest! (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1904 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=15274 |
| 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/4fpkGsk3Qw7LEaEbkRkp59 |
| Link to IPA Source | https://www.ipasource.com/product/let-beauty-awake-2/ |
| Catalog Designation | Songs of Travel, no. 2 (Search) |
| Range: | E4 - E5 (Search) |
| Original Key | E 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/19978128 (Search) |
| Orchestra and voice? | Yes (Search) |
| Contributor Affiliation | University of Nevada, Reno (Search) |