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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat is this piece of music?
It sounds very much like Aaron Copland but I'm not sure.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,692 posts)and I can't hear the music over the yakking anyhow.
misanthrope
(7,417 posts)Which is about where I copied the URL time stamp
LAS14
(13,783 posts)... this is setting a precedent for solumn occasions.
But, yeah, need a link to just the music.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,692 posts)dae
(3,396 posts)no commentary, much much better.
Donkees
(31,406 posts)"I Vow to Thee, My Country" is a British hymn (patriotic song), created in 1921, when a poem by Sir Cecil Spring Rice was set to music by Gustav Holst.
The origin of the hymn's text is a poem by diplomat Sir Cecil Spring Rice, which he wrote in 1908 or 1912, entitled Urbs Dei ("The City of God" ) or The Two Fatherlands. The poem described how a Christian owes his loyalties to both his homeland and the heavenly kingdom.
In 1908, Spring Rice was posted to the British Embassy in Stockholm. In 1912, he was appointed as Ambassador to the United States of America, where he influenced the administration of Woodrow Wilson to abandon neutrality and join Britain in the war against Germany. After the United States entered the war, he was recalled to Britain. Shortly before his departure from the US in January 1918, he re-wrote and renamed Urbs Dei, significantly altering the first verse to concentrate on the themes of love and sacrifice rather than "the noise of battle" and "the thunder of her guns", creating a more sombre tone in view of the dreadful loss of life suffered in the Great War.
The first verse in both versions invoke Britain (in the 1912 version anthropomorphised as Britannia with sword and shield, in the second version simply called "my country" ), the second verse the Kingdom of Heaven.
According to Sir Cecil's granddaughter, the rewritten verse of 1918 was never intended to appear alongside the first verse of the original poem, but was replacing it; the original first verse is nevertheless sometimes known as the "rarely sung middle verse". The text of the original poem was sent by Spring Rice to William Jennings Bryan in a letter shortly before his death in February 1918.
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 words of the poem. 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).
Something about the melody reminds me of Copland's "Variations on a Shaker Melody."
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,692 posts)I like it in this form even better than in "The Planets."
Donkees
(31,406 posts)MuseRider
(34,109 posts)and I have never finished that too small part of Jupiter with a dry eye. Not only is it very beautiful it builds in a way that just pulls everything out of you. My brother who is deceased and I used to play 4 hand piano for fun and this was one we would play so there is that too but it is just such a beautiful part of the whole.
Donkees
(31,406 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,692 posts)and which he used in "The Planets."
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Postlude, Final, from Symphony I, OP.14 and Piece dorgue, BWV 572
[link:https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/obama-bush-to-speak-at-mccains-funeral-at-washington-cathedral-speaker-list/|
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,692 posts)The program doesn't seem to mention the recessional.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,692 posts)Glad others were able to sort it out.
misanthrope
(7,417 posts)I don't know why it excluded that portion of the address when it posted.