A Wanderer's Song TTB - Sheet Music

SKU: CF.CM9830

ISBN 9781491168790. UPC: 798408100742. 6.875x10.5 inches. Key: C major. English.

This adventurous tune for Tenor-Bass Choir captures the energy of an individual longing to leave their home and explore the world. This enthusiasm for exploration is represented musically by the pulsating, mixed-meter piano accompaniment, the syncopated rhythms of the vocal lines, and the chromatic but accessible harmonic progressions.
With its opening line “A wind’s in the heart of me, a fire’s in my heels,” A Wanderer’s Song captures the energy of an individual longing to leave their home and explore the world. This enthusiasm for exploration is represented musically by the pulsating, mixed-meter piano accompaniment, the syncopated rhythms of the vocal lines, and the chromatic but accessible harmonic progressions.The poem by John Masefield uses numerous references to sea-faring and the ships commonly used in the 19th-century. The line “To where a lifting foresail-foot is yanking at the sheet” refers to the sail at the front mast of a large sailing vessel propelled by the wind. An anchorage is a place where sailing vessels anchor, such as a harbor or bay, while yawls and ketches are two different types of small, two-mast sailboats.In m. 40, the vocal parts become more lyrical and legato and the driving left-hand of the piano part gives way to a flowing arpeggio pattern, depicting the “windy, tossing anchorage.” The piece ends with a return to the hurried excitement of the beginning as the voices reiterate their desire to leave the noisy streets (“the roaring of the wheels”) and venture out to sea.