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The poem circulated privately for a few years until it was set to music by Holst, to a tune he adapted from his Jupiter to fit the poem's words. It was performed as a unison song with orchestra in the early 1920s, and it was finally published as a hymn in 1925/6 in the Songs of Praise hymnal (no. 188). [3] It was included in later hymnals ...
The Manse in Thaxted, where Gustav Holst lived from 1917 to 1925 "Thaxted" is a hymn tune by the English composer Gustav Holst, based on the stately theme from the middle section of the Jupiter movement of his orchestral suite The Planets and named after Thaxted, the English village where he lived much of his life.
Holst used the melody of the central section of "Jupiter" for a setting ("Thaxted") of the hymn "I Vow to Thee, My Country" in 1921. [ n 5 ] The Planets has been taken as an influence by various rock bands , and for film scores such as those for the Star Wars series.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band used "Jupiter, bringer of joy" for his song "Joybringer". [22] The 1985 album Beyond the Planets, by Jeff Wayne, Rick Wakeman and Kevin Peek (with narration by Patrick Allen), is a rock arrangement of the entire suite. [23] The song "Hammerheart" in Twilight of the Gods album by Bathory is based on the fourth movement ...
Below is a sortable list of compositions by Gustav Holst. The works are categorized by genre, H. catalogue number (A Thematic Catalogue of Gustav Holst's Music by Imogen Holst, London, Faber Music Ltd., 1974), opus number, date of composition and title.
Three songs (words: Walter de la Mare) Treble voice, two violins and cello: Vocal: 1926: Two Four-part Rounds: Unaccompanied voices: Vocal: 1926 "Weathers" (song) (words: Thomas Hardy) Solo voice and piano: Instrumental: 1926: Theme and variations: Solo piano: Choral: 1927: Mass in A minor: SSATB choir: Instrumental: 1927: Suite in F: "Allegro ...
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Gustav Holst wrote Jupiter in 1914-16 with the first public performance in 1919 [1], then was commissioned to set "I Vow to Thee, My Country" to music and realised the words fitted part of Jupiter which he had recently penned, hence the 1921 date is the correct date for putting the words to music: the words of "I Vow to Thee, My Country" had ...