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"A Song of Union" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs (also known as the ''"Pageant of Empire"'') written to be performed in the ''Pageant of Empire'' at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924. However the song was not actually performed at the Pageant. This was the only one that the composer wrote as a part-song, though two others "''Sailing Westward''" and "''The Immortal Legions''" were later arranged as part-songs. The song is in the form of a confident march, beginning with the symbolic ''"stars that wheel around the Sun"'' and finally celebrating the union of the realms of Empire with ''"Love binds all our hearts in one"''. Although some of the songs in ''"Pageant of Empire"'' were associated with particular countries, this song celebrates the union of the whole Empire, and has no particular reference to what was at that time the Union of South Africa. The music is taken from the central section of Elgar's "''Empire March''", written for the same occasion. ==References== *Foreman, Lewis (ed.),''Oh, My Horses! Elgar and the Great War'' (Elgar Editions, Rickmansworth, 2001). ISBN 0-9537082-3-3, pp. 282-284 *Richards, Jeffrey, ''Imperialism and Music: Britain 1876-1953'' (Manchester University Press, 2002). ISBN 0-7190-4506-1 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Song of Union」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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