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Holst: Masters in This Hall (3 Carols H.133) - wind quintet
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Holst: Masters in This Hall (3 Carols H.133) - wind quintet by Gustav Holst Woodwind Quintet - Digital Sheet Music

By Gustav Holst
Woodwind Ensemble, Woodwind Quintet Bassoon, Clarinet, Flute, French Horn, Oboe - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1324353

Composed by Gustav Holst. Arranged by Ray Thompson. This edition: pdf. 20th Century, Christmas. 9 pages. RayThompsonMusic #912553. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1324353).

"Masters in This Hall" (alternative title: "Nowell, Sing We Clear") is a Christmas carol with words written around 1860 by the English poet and artist William Morris to an old French dance tune. The carol is moderately popular around the world but has not entered the canon of most popular carols.

The French composer Marin Marais composed the tune as a dance for his opera Alcyone of 1706, with the title Marche pour les Matelots

The words were written around 1860 while William Morris, then 26, was working as an apprentice in the office of the architect, Edmund Street, presumably under the persuasion of his fellow students who at that time had a taste for part-song.

Gustav Holst incorporated the carol into his work Three Carols (1916–17) along with "Christmas Song: On this Day" and "I Saw Three Ships". Holst wrote the Three Carols for amateurs singing in his Thaxted festivals. The carols are all for unison choir with orchestral or organ accompaniment.

In Morris's (and Holst's) original version there are twelve verses but today only four or five are generally sung.

The carol describes a poor man, emphasised by his rural dialect, drawing his master's attention to the birth of Christ by describing how he had met shepherds travelling to Bethlehem in solemn mood where, joining them, he had seen the Christ child in his mother's arms. The chorus repeats how the birth of Christ has raised up the poor and cast down the proud


Arranged wind quintet.

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