Music arranged by Phillip Littlemore

Brass Band

I Vow To Thee, My Country

Composed by Gustav Holst. Arranged by Phillip Littlemore.

Gustav Holst wrote his suite The Planets during the early years of the first world war. The expansive movement, Jupiter, contained a tune that Holst later used to set the poem by Cecil Spring-Rice. I Vow To Thee, My Country.

Brass Band

Jerusalem, arr Phillip Littlemore

Arranged by Phillip Littlemore.

Sir Hubert Parry wrote the music to the hymn Jerusalem in 1916, during the gloom of World War 1. It uses William Blake's poem And Did Those Feet In Ancient Times which itself was written around 1804, and first published in 1808.