The Roadside Fire
Music: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Words: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
The Roadside Fire is song 3 from the song cycle entitled Songs of Travel. Using Stevenson’s poetry, this cycle is a classic “wayfarer cycle” depicting a world weary yet resolute individual. Kaleidoscopic shifts in mood are presented in The Roadside Fire, with a lively accompaniment in the piano that lends a playful atmosphere to the first part of the song. The latter half of the song turns more serious and impressionistic as the traveller envisions private moments with his lover, until the sunny music of the opening returns.
Ralph Vaughan Williams was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, film scores, and song. He was an avid collector of English folk music and song. Along with Cecil Sharp and others, Vaughan Williams helped reignite an appreciation for English folk music. He also helped develop a style of rugged and exalted composition, whose style and sound quality is thought of as distinctly British.
Key of D Flat Major
Range : Octave plus 4th : B up to E
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Key of E Flat Major
Range : Octave plus 4th : Db up to Gb
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Key of F Major
Range : Octave plus 4th : Eb up to Ab
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