The theme from this movement's Andante Maestoso section was combined with Cecil Spring-Rice's lyrics for the hymn "Thaxted" or
The theme from this movement's Andante Maestoso section was combined with Cecil Spring-Rice's lyrics for the hymn "Thaxted" or "I Vow to Thee My Country." A bouncing pastoral dance, led by the brass and then by the high woodwinds upon its later repetition, serves as a transitory section that leads to the return of the opening Allegro Giocoso passage consisting of a swirling string buildup into a powerful brass fanfare that also exhibits a sense of joy, as this piece's subtitle suggests. Placed in between movements subtitled "The Winged Messenger" and "The Bringer of Old Age," in a seven part suite, this is, FTP, what piece subtitled "The Bringer of Jollity," Gustav Holst's composition depicting the largest of the planets?
The theme from this movement's Andante Maestoso section was combined with Cecil Spring-Rice's lyrics for the hymn "Thaxted" or
“{Jupiter}, the Bringer of Jollity”