Parry, a key figure of British musical life around 1900, influenced as a teacher nearly the entire younger generation of musicians in England, from Edward Elgar to Gustav Holst to Ralph Vaughan Williams. In his choral works madrigalesque elements merge with influences from Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms and Richard Wagner to an individual style often described as specifically "British". My Soul, There Is a Country, taken from the masterful late work Songs of Farewell, reveals Parry's skillful handling of the voice and his sensitive, judicious manner of compositionally reflecting Henry Vaughan's (1622–1695) spiritual text.