 Imogen acknowledges that Holst's discovery of English folksongs "transformed his orchestral writing", and that the composition of "A Somerset Rhapsody" did much to banish the chromaticisms that had dominated his early compositions.In the "Two Songs without Words" of 1906, Holst showed that he could create his own original music using the folk idiom.An orchestral folksong fantasy "Songs of the West", also written in 1906, was withdrawn by the composer and never published, although it emerged in the 1980s in the form of an arrangement for wind band by James Curnow.