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Two more bits of information I might have included: the vocal score bears the number 14880 at the bottom of each page of music (along with 'Copyright, 1922 by Novello & Company, Limited' on the first page), and the score itself is on loan from a library.

I have in my possession a vocal score of the Holst Ode to Death. Holst is now out of copyright: Walt Whitman, the librettist, died in the nineteenth century, and there is no named editor in the score, whose copyright is given as 1922. So far, so good. But in 1973 the composer Colin Matthews revised ...