Yes, despite this, I quoted two verses from Psalms Book, one on the first page of the score and the other one on the last, not to relate them specifically with the musical context, but to indicate them.
Symbolically an imaginative clima and, above all, to testify the natural involvement that made me write this work.
Orchestration: flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, percussion, vibraphone, Korean temple block, 3 Chinese toms, clave, timp, xylorimb, bonbo, tamb, xylophone.
[1] Hymnody, a BBC assignment, was written in February and March 1963, and was premiered on "Thursday Invitation Concert" on May 23 the same year, by members of the "London Virtuoso Ensemble", directed by Jacques-Louis Monod.
[1]A distinguished work and, often, poetically beautiful... Mr. Gerhard's rich and accurate harmonic imagination made an especially powerful impression.