What is a vagabond song mainly about?

The Vagabond is the first song in the cycle and sets the scene for the traveller. The style that starts off this song cycle is an homage Vaughan Williams’ love of Romanticism that came before. A vagabond is often used to describe someone who travels a lot without a home or job, which sets the scene for this song.

When was a Vagabond Song written?

1896
“A Vagabond Song” was first published in 1896 in More Songs from Vagabondia, the second of three collaborations with Richard Hovey. It later appeared in The Canada Book of Prose and Verse, Book One, a school reader used across the country in the 1930s through 1950s.

What is the meaning of a vagabond song?

Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time. The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry 5 Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills. There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir;

What does Bliss Carman say about a vagabond song?

24. A Vagabond Song THEREis something in the autumn that is native to my blood— Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time. The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry 5 Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills

Is there something native to the blood of the Vagabond?

THEREis something in the autumn that is native to my blood— Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time. The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry 5 Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.

When did Ralph Vaughan Williams write the Vagabond?

Ralph Vaughan Williams’ The Vagabond was originally set for voice and piano and is part of a larger song cycle entitled Songs of Travel. Composed between 1901-1904, this was Vaughan Williams’ first major offering in the world of vocal music.