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Pomp and Circumstance

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Pomp and Circumstance

Five military marches by Edward Elgar, Op. 39, originally intended as a set of six. The first contains, as a trio, the tune afterwards used in the Coronation Ode to the words ‘Land of hope and glory’. The title of the set comes from Othello: ‘pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war’. Nos. 1–4 were composed 1901–07, and No. 5 in 1930.



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