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From: "Mark Topham" <>
Subject: Re: re Hymn
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 09:23:08 +0100


Douglas Burbury <> wrote in message
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> (Hazel Burgess) wrote:
>
> >A little triviality.
> >
> >Sir Hubert Parry who wrote the majestic, soaring music to which Jerusalem
> >is sung, also invented the dentist's chair.
>
> Doesn't the music for this hymn also form the main theme in "Jupiter",
> from Gustav Holst's "Planets"? If so, did Holst incorporate the hymn
> into his own music, or did Parry adapt Holst's theme?
>
> Or am I thinking of the majestic music for a different hymn?

You are Douglas:- 'I Vow to Thee My Country'.

Mark.

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