Thaxted (tune)

"Thaxted" is a hymn tune by the English composer Gustav Holst, based on the stately theme from the middle section of the Jupiter movement of his orchestral suite The Planets and named after Thaxted, the English village where he resided much of his life. He adapted the theme in 1921 to fit the patriotic poem "I Vow to Thee, My Country" by Cecil Spring Rice but that was as a unison song with orchestra. It did not appear as a hymn-tune called "Thaxted" until his friend Ralph Vaughan Williams included it in Songs of Praise in 1926. This setting was sung at the Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997.

"Alma Mater" - School song for Ronald Reagan High School (San Antonio, Texas) "Virtute et Labore" - School song for St Margaret's School (Berwick, Victoria, Australia)

Secular songs written to the tune include:

A literary reference appears in "The Adventure of the Lost World", a Sherlock Holmes pastiche written by Dominic Green, where the tune is a major plot element, though the story contains a chronological error in that its Autumn 1918 setting would pre-date the publishing of the tune under the name "Thaxted".

Commercial uses include:

...
Wikipedia