This document contains accompanying materials for professionally recorded tracks of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Songs of Travel, transcribed for tuba and piano. These songs were performed by Brian Sugrue on tuba, Suyeon Kim on piano, and mastered by Kevin Harbison, sound engineer.
Track listing:
1. The Vagabond.
2. Let Beauty...
This document focuses on Ralph Vaughan Williams, more specifically, his Songs of Travel for bass-baritone voice, which I have transcribed for tuba and piano. The tuba world is very familiar with Vaughan Williams due to is groundbreaking contribution to the tuba repertoire with his Concerto for Bass Tuba. Composed in...
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