The British regimental bands have around 33 or 35 players, which also was the size of the battalion bands no longer existing (the ceremonial bands have 48 players). The texts around this piece suggest that Holst had foreseen a performance with down to 19 players, while he allowed for some more. The urtext version was also lighter in many places, which I preferred. But the cornet and baritone horn matched better and sounded more like one "dual instrument" playing in octaves. When I played it previously on euphonium it sounded like two solo instruments playing a line in octaves. There was one place I noticed in particular where the baritone and cornet have a melody soli line in unison. Holst used the instruments very appropriately. Other sections were distributed to tenor sax and other instruments in the published version. The cues you see in the published version represent the most important portions of the missing baritone part. There were indeed completely unique baritone and euphonium parts. Dwerden wrote:When I was in the Coast Guard Band we played from the urtext edition of the First Suite.
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