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Johnstone Creations – Charles Hubert Hastings PARRY – Jerusalem (‘And did those feet in ancient times’) – this music has been specially produced for 8 SOLO CELLOS or CELLO ORCHESTRA

Download Contents or Instructions:

PDF 1 – General conductor Score (11 pages in all)

PDF 2 – Individual Cello Parts 1 to 4 (13 pages in all)

PDF 3 – Individual Cello Parts 5 to 8 (13 pages in all)

General difficulty of the music – other Information:

MEDIUM

The first cello has extensive A-string playing in the higher registers (Q position) but in a gentle tempo, the other parts are all fairly comfortable for intermediate cellists. Played by professionals the rich sonorities of the harmonies will allow coaxing out a glorious group sound.

‘And did those feet in ancient time’ is a poem by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton: A Poem in Two Books, one of a collection of writings known as the Prophetic Books. The date of 1804 on the title page is probably when the plates were begun, but the poem was printed c. 1808. Today it is best known as the hymn “Jerusalem”, with music written by Sir Hubert Parry in 1916. It is not to be confused with another poem, much longer and larger in scope, but also by Blake, called Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion.

 The poem was inspired by the apocryphal story that a young Jesus, accompanied by Joseph of Arimathea, a tin merchant, travelled to what is now England and visited Glastonbury during his unknown years. The poem’s theme is linked to the Book of Revelation (3:12 and 21:2) describing a Second Coming, wherein Jesus establishes a New Jerusalem. Churches in general, and the Church of England in particular, have long used Jerusalem as a metaphor for Heaven, a place of universal love and peace.

In the most common interpretation of the poem, Blake implies that a visit by Jesus would briefly create heaven in England, in contrast to the “dark Satanic Mills” of the Industrial Revolution. Blake’s poem asks four questions rather than asserting the historical truth of Christ’s visit. Thus the poem merely implies that there may have been a divine visit, when there was briefly heaven in England.

Blake’s poem

And did those feet in ancient time,

Walk upon Englands mountains green:

And was the holy Lamb of God,

On Englands pleasant pastures seen!

And did the Countenance Divine,

Shine forth upon our clouded hills?

And was Jerusalem builded here,

Among these dark Satanic Mills?

Bring me my Bow of burning gold:

Bring me my Arrows of desire:

Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold:

Bring me my Chariot of fire!

I will not cease from Mental Fight,

Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:

Till we have built Jerusalem,

In Englands green & pleasant Land.

This musical creation was originally written for: the beautiful sound of British cellist MATTHEW SHARP

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