Choral Hymns from The Rig Veda
The British School New Delhi Dr. Jose P. Rizal Marg, New DelhiThe years 1900 through 1912 could be thought of as the British composer Gustav Holst's (1874-1934) "Sanskrit" period, writing music inspried by ancient Hindu texts and poems.The Rig Veda is a set of over 1000 hymns – singing the praises of the sacred plant soma and gods like Varuna, Agni, and Indra – brought by Indo-European speaking peoples into India somewhere around 1500-1000 B.C. Holst set 14 of these hymns to music in his four groups of Choral Hymns, which […]
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