The Splendour Falls and the other songs from The Princess were written for a performance of tableaux from The Princess by the girls of James Allen Girls’ School in London, where Holst taught. The song is scored for Female Voices SA with a small echo choir, unaccompanied, and is full of recognizably Holstian shifting harmonies and Vocal effects. In 1847, Alfred Tennyson – later Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom – published a narrative poem, The Princess, that concerned the education of women. In The Princess, set at a summer fete, a new college for women is created by Princess Ida. A Prince and his friends infiltrate, dressed as women. A love story ensues. The Princess was also the source material for Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida.
| Instrument | SSA |
| Genre (Fx Pop, Rock, Barn m.m.) | Post-1900, Romantic |
| Typ (fx Lärobok, samling m.m.) | Vocal partitur, Vokalverk |
| Niveau | Prof. |
| Sidor | 8 |
| Media | Noter |
| Publisher/Producent | Novello, Novello & Co Ltd. |
| Bidragsgivare | Holst, Gustav (Artist) |
| Språk | Engelska |