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  2. Songs of Travel - Wikipedia

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    Songs of Travel is a song cycle of nine songs originally written for baritone voice composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams, with poems drawn from the Robert Louis Stevenson collection Songs of Travel and Other Verses. A complete performance of the entire cycle lasts between 20 and 24 minutes. They were originally written for voice and piano.

  3. Songs of Travel and Other Verses - Wikipedia

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    1896 edition of Stevenson's Songs of Travel. Songs of Travel and Other Verses is an 1896 book of poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson. Originally published by Chatto & Windus, [1] it explores the author's perennial themes of travel and adventure. The work gained a new public and popularity when it was set to music in Songs of Travel by Ralph ...

  4. Whither Must I Wander - Wikipedia

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    "Whither Must I Wander" is a song composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams whose lyrics consist of a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson.The Stevenson poem, entitled Home no more home to me, whither must I wander?, [1] forms part of the collection of poems and songs called Songs of Travel and Other Verses [2] published in 1895, [3] and is originally intended to be sung to the tune of "Wandering Willie ...

  5. Category:Classical song cycles in English - Wikipedia

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    Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad; The Song and The Slogan; Song cycles (Waterhouse) A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table; Songfest: A Cycle of American Poems for Six Singers and Orchestra; Songs and Proverbs of William Blake; Songs from the Chinese; Songs of a Wayfarer; Songs of the Fleet; Songs of the Sea (Stanford) Songs of Travel; Songs Sacred ...

  6. Vaughan Williams and English folk music - Wikipedia

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    He collected his first song, Bushes and Briars, from Mr Charles Pottipher, a seventy-year-old labourer from Ingrave, Essex in 1903, and went on to collect over 800 songs, as well as some singing games and dance tunes. For 10 years he devoted up to 30 days a year to collecting folk songs from singers in 21 English counties, though Essex, Norfolk ...

  7. Book of Songs (poetry collection) - Wikipedia

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    Homecoming, From the Harz Journey, The North Sea, First Cycle: Travel Pictures, Part One. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1826. The North Sea, Second Cycle: Travel Pictures, Part Two. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1827. In total, the Book of Songs contains 237 poems, of which 8 are new. Many of the poems had already been published prior to printing ...

  8. Gotta Travel On - Wikipedia

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    "Gotta Travel On" is an American folksong. The earliest known version was printed in Carl Sandburg's The American Songbag in 1927 under the title "Yonder Comes the High Sheriff" and several variations were recorded in the 1920s, but the best known version is credited to Paul Clayton, The Weavers, Larry Ehrlich, and Dave Lazer and was first recorded by Pete Seeger in 1958.

  9. Rules of Travel - Wikipedia

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    Rules of Travel is a studio album by singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash, released in 2003. [4] [5] It was her first album of new material in nearly seven years.On the track "September When It Comes," she is joined by her father Johnny Cash; Johnny Cash would in fact die in September 2003, making this one of the last recordings to be released during his lifetime.