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Valiant-for-truth, Sheet music Book

Valiant-for-truth Sheet music

Sheet music

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for SATB with organ or piano introductionThis motet sets a text from John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, in which Mr Valiant-for-Truth poignantly meditates on the subject of his own approaching death.

The work concludes with the protagonist passing into heaven with the choir emulating 'the trumpets [sounding] for him on the other side'.

Over a decade later in 1951, Vaughan Williams's operatic adaptation of The Pillgrim's Progress was performed for the first time, reflecting his continued fondness for Bunyan's tale.

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