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Spring Symphony

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Benjamin Britten's Spring Symphony (1949) is a large-scale choral work that celebrates the arrival of spring. It features a boys' choir, a mixed chorus, and soloists, accompanied by orchestra. The symphony is structured in 24 movements, drawing on a wide range of texts from medieval poetry to contemporary verses, reflecting various aspects of spring, from its natural beauty to its social and celebratory elements.12

The work is notable for Britten's masterful word setting and his skillful integration of different vocal forces with the orchestra. It concludes with a choral waltz that combines syllabic effects with the Old English lyric "Sumer is icumen in".21

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  1. choral music - Secular music
  2. Benjamin Britten
  3. The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

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