[5] The score carries[4] on the title page a Bertrand Russell quotation: Whether your life is a happy or an unhappy one is likely to depend on your work as much as upon any one factor.
In its highest flights this must always be the privilege of exceptionally gifted people, but in humbler form it could be very common.and an epigram by William Morris: "Happiness without daily work is impossible.The symphony is scored for a full orchestra.
The first subject of the movement gropes in the dark for light that is always there, if unseen, with the second providing a glimpse of some impossible heaven.
The opening introduction to the first movement is remarkable for its dominant prolongation with a sense of tonal ambiguity (the so-called Tristan chord used in parallel motion).
[3] At the end of the slow movement the composer added characteristic progressions of juxtaposed triads based on the relationship of the thirds.
[3] The addition of a magnificent brass apotheosis of the choral motive in the final movement forms extra 26 bars and shows the largest alternation from the original composition among all Hill's arranged symphonies for full orchestra.