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CHORAL HYMNSFROM THERIG VEDA

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FIRST GROUP.1. Battle Hymn.2. Hymn to the Unknown God.3. Funer-al Hymn.

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CHORAL HYMNS FROM THE RIG-VE AWords and Music by

T.USTAV HOLSTOp. 26

FIRST GROUPThree Hymns for Full Chorus and Orchestra

Vocal Score . , 114 Tonic Sol.fa, 8


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Fl. T GROllP.l , h' tie Hymn a ylgorollS pi ce or work in which the use of qn iOIl eclcr.1lng I'

luffici~o It consi'teDt to give lbor~ugbly 'in re e pr s;o" to the ~(),ds. htre i~"j~nal beautyIn the Hymn to the Unkno G.' peciaUy in tbe Refnain, \VDO is He? .ow ba' t namHim .heD we offer loa ~'6cel' Tbe FUDera ) Hymn is more massive in stye. -TmltJ.

.. Of bis uncommon ability be has riven U5 proof before no., and there CIU!the cleverness. po er, aDd imaginatioD revea d in the work. --D4i1y Tmgrafl"-

By far the bett of the ne orks 'llras Mr. Gustav T Hoi t', group of Ripeelally the' Hymn to the UnkDown 0 ' The design of he piece w i

to very strikin" cl imax, an do'WDagain j hile at iDte.rval$ a quo QI eB"ect.as heard.

0one has done OrieD aI mu~ic better thaD Mr. . Holst--that is to 1. h h b'm , . : ffrom the eustornary devices, and seems to have been able to express himself q uite natur I y Inmusical phr",eology emineo Iy s ltable to tbe 6ne texts.--Pail MallGUIIII.

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.. Reveals a very vivid sense 01 colour and a command c . . I Q g a m spbereMW1:1 PDsl

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CHORAL HYMNS FROM THE RIG-VEDAWords and Music by

T.U TAV HOLTOp. 26

FIRST GROUPThree Hymns for Full Chorus and Orchestra

Vocal Score, 1/4 Tooic Solfa, W.SECOND CR.OllP

Tbre Hymns for Female Voices, with Accompaniment (or Orchestra or Pianowith Violins ad I w .Vocal Score, 1/.

THIRD GROUPFour Hymns for Female Voices, with Accompaniment (or Harp or PianoVocal Score, 1 / f

FOURTH GROUPFour Hymns for Male Voices, with Accompaniment for Piano or StringOrchestra with Bra..~s ad liII.

Vocal Score. 1/4

"It is lortunate that the treasure mine of Sanskrit literature ha remaiDed untouched uti) &musician pre.enled himself who w nol onJy a talented composer, but endowed with adaptableympathtes and the patience to apply lhem to a new stud)'. Such is Gustav T. Holst... The bymnl of the Rig. Ved consist (or the most part o( simple iDvocatiou 01 6re. ater,heaven, the sUD, and other forces 01 nature. incidental to the earlier, less sopbisticated, Corm 01religion... Tbis i the material wbicb attracted Mr. T. Holst It ,,'as D Ot long before he dec.ded lilat toapproach it tbrough lbe medium of traoslations was h~Jc . The more faithful the translatioo s.the more remote it seemed from reproducing the atmosphere o( the original. Some imn eva Itneeded much iDgeDulty to decide wbat the translat,oD meam, By this time, bowever, r. T. Hobl.a s s o , f i red by enthusia.sm tbat difficulties only spurred him OD, and he set to work to study SauDiThe tests he now uses are hIS own. They should, bowever, Dot be regarded as lI'aDIIatiou the usual sense, Hi. melhod has been 6rst to study tbe original so closely as to b e com,.....,saturated with it,' tben to throw it aside aDd reproduce ita meaning iD the clearest POSSIble termL

ED IN EVANS in TAlBltullM'" Ti-.ItIf Mr. T. Holst bad never written aD)'tblng ncept tbil colle tiODof bymu.. they &lODenlicc to swop bim as OD e 01tbe most iDdiyidual firures ia contemporary musical lire.

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