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📚 Sources/further reading:
“Gustav Holst: The Man and his Music” by Michael Short (Circaidy Gregory Press, 2014)
“Sacred Sound at the Symphony: A Conductor’s Guide to Faith Traditions in Choral-Orchestral Repertoire” by Robert Bott (PhD dissertation, University of North Texas, 2020): https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1703425/m2/1/high_res_d/BOTT-DISSERTATION-2020.pdf
“An Analysis of Gustav Holst’s ‘The Planets’” by Kanokrut Leelasiri (MA thesis, Cal State Northridge, 2001): http://scholarworks.csun.edu/bitstream/handle/10211.2/2158/leelasirikanokrut2001.pdf?sequence=1
“A Study of Orchestration Techniques for the Wind Ensemble/Wind Band as Demonstrated in Seminal Works” by Chris Sharp (PhD dissertation, University of Florida, 2011): http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0042544/sharp_c.pdf
“Violin and Voice as Partners in Three Early Twentieth-Century English Works for Voice and Violin” by John Paul Rutland (PhD dissertation, University of North Texas, 2005): https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4935/m2/1/high_res_d/dissertation.pdf
“Modal Prolongational Structure in Selected Sacred Choral Compositions by Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams” by Timothy Paul Francis (PhD dissertation, University of Oregon, 2012): https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/12383/Francis_oregon_0171A_10372.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
ttp://gustavholst.info/journal/article-001.php?chapter=1
doublebassing.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/think-youre-a-failure-we-call-that-pulling-a-holst

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Music:

- Gustav Holst: First Suite for Military Band, performed by the United States Marine Band conducted by Frederick Fennell and available on IMSLP: tinyurl.com/6cuphbyb
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
- Gustav Holst: “Hymn to the Waters” from Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Group 3, performed by the North Central College Women’s Chorale and the DuPage Symphony Orchestra conducted by Barbara Schubert and available on IMSLP: tinyurl.com/ybtjde5d
- Giovanni Palestrina: Sicut Cervus, performed by Cantores Carmeli Linz conducted by Michael Stenov and available on IMSLP: tinyurl.com/ub5hhbss
- Gustav Holst: The Planets, performed by the National Youth Orchestra of Canada conducted by (probably) Alain Trudel and available on IMSLP: tinyurl.com/d7jy48we

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