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I just returned from a 2,000 mile road trip with the kids. Each time we filled up with gas I'd sing Willie Nelson's On the Road Again as I re-cleaned the car windows that my children had squeegeed into a mess of streaks and smudges.
My knowledge of On the Road Again is pretty much limited to that one phrase so I'd also sing The Vagabond from Vaughan Williams's Songs of Travel.
"Give to me the life I love,
Let the lave go by me,
Give the jolly heaven above,
And the byway nigh me."
Songs of Travel was the first cycle of songs Vaughan Williams poduced. The text is from Robert Louis Stevensons's set of poems also called Songs of Travel.
This set of songs is lyrical and picturesque. It also accessible to singers of all abilities. These songs are standard fare for undergraduate baritones even though they are also published in a higher key for tenors.
There were originally eight songs in the cycle but after his death, Vaughan Williams's widow found a ninth song which is now included. There is a caveat for the ninth song. It is only to be performed in public as a part of the entire cycle. It is not to be sung on it's own.
As a complete set, Songs of Travel takes about 22-25 minutes to perform.
The song titles are:
The Vagabond
Let Beauty Awake
The Roadside Fire
Youth and Love
In Dreams
The Infinite Shining Heavens
Whither must I Wander
Bright is the Ring of Words
I have trod the Upward and the Downward Slope.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITjLHDi7UPg&feature=related
I just returned from a 2,000 mile road trip with the kids. Each time we filled up with gas I'd sing Willie Nelson's On the Road Again as I re-cleaned the car windows that my children had squeegeed into a mess of streaks and smudges.
My knowledge of On the Road Again is pretty much limited to that one phrase so I'd also sing The Vagabond from Vaughan Williams's Songs of Travel.
"Give to me the life I love,
Let the lave go by me,
Give the jolly heaven above,
And the byway nigh me."
Songs of Travel was the first cycle of songs Vaughan Williams poduced. The text is from Robert Louis Stevensons's set of poems also called Songs of Travel.
This set of songs is lyrical and picturesque. It also accessible to singers of all abilities. These songs are standard fare for undergraduate baritones even though they are also published in a higher key for tenors.
There were originally eight songs in the cycle but after his death, Vaughan Williams's widow found a ninth song which is now included. There is a caveat for the ninth song. It is only to be performed in public as a part of the entire cycle. It is not to be sung on it's own.
As a complete set, Songs of Travel takes about 22-25 minutes to perform.
The song titles are:
The Vagabond
Let Beauty Awake
The Roadside Fire
Youth and Love
In Dreams
The Infinite Shining Heavens
Whither must I Wander
Bright is the Ring of Words
I have trod the Upward and the Downward Slope.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITjLHDi7UPg&feature=related