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Queen Elizabeth II: Music Important in Her Life and in Her Departing

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Music for Her Coronation

IMPORTANT WORKS WRITTEN ESPECIALLY FOR THE CORONATION
(showing call numbers for scores in the Music Library's collection)

March, Orb and Sceptre, by William Walton, 1902-1983
Music Remote Storage M 1046 .W23 C6 2010

Coronation March, by Arnold Bax, 1883-1953

Te Deum, by William Walton
Music Remote Storage M 2023 .W34 C6 1953

choral setting of text from Psalm 34, “O Taste and See,” by Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958
M 2092 .V38 O82 1953

OTHER IMPORTANT WORKS PERFORMED AT THE CORONATION:
March, Crown Imperial, by William Walton
Music Remote Storage M 1046 .W23 C6 2010

Jupiter from The Planets, by Gustav Holst, 1874-1934
Willis 4FL Music Library M 1254 .H65 P75

Nimrod from Enigma Variations, by Edward Elgar, 1857-1934
Willis 4FL Music Library M 1258 .E66 op.36 .N5

Pomp and Circumstance no. 2, by Edward Elgar
Willis 4FL Music Library M 1046 .E42 op. 39 1902

The Music Library has recordings of most of these works on LPs and CDs, and most of them are available on our streaming audio database, Naxos Music Library. 

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