I was glad

[Pabmusic]

...Re the trumpets: in the MS score there are six until page 19, where a further 12 (!) are introduced at letter K ('Plenteousness'). They're at the bottom of the score. However there are only two real parts, hence the eight trumpets quoted in the Novello catalogue.

I'd not noticed that!

[Brassbandmaestro]

I never knew that! Gosh! I have Blackl Dyke Bnad plus organ playing it. Its really quite an arrangment!

[Wolsey]

Thanks, Pabmusic, for spotting the contrabassoon in the manuscript, and to Radegund for ploughing nobly through the score and spotting the phalanx of trumpets. The manuscript was not an easy read late at night. But why introduce a dozen trumpets for the closing bars? Could they have been the ceremonial trumpets (2 lots of six) adding 'welly' on the dominant pedal?