Thaxted (tune)
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Thaxted, the English village where the British composer Gustav Holst resided much of his life, is also the name of a hymn tune, with the unusual meter of 13 13 13 13 13 13, based on the stately main theme of the Jupiter movement of his orchestral suite The Planets. He adapted the tune in 1921 to fit a patriotic poem "I Vow to Thee, My Country" which had been written by Cecil Spring-Rice. This setting was sung at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997.
Other hymns written to this tune include "O God Beyond All Praising" by Michael Perry (1942-1996) and "O Spirit All-Embracing" by Delores Dufner, OSB.
This tune is used in the 2006 Lutheran Service Book of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod to the hymn "We Praise You and Acknowledge You, O God", a paraphrase of the Te Deum Laudamus by Rev. Stephen P. Starke.
