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Taking a step in that direction, and then sideways and back and around, \u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eIts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eMotion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eKeeps\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e is based on the words from the first verse of the American shape \u003cspan\u003enote\u003c\/span\u003e hymn \u003ci\u003eKingwood\u003c\/i\u003e, found in \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Harmony\u003c\/i\u003e (1835) and other early 19th century hymn books. (Very likely it is a text that immigrated from England.) It begins with a palindromic viola pizzicato line that gestures to the continuo lines of Henry Purcell, to whom Britten wrote several \u003ci\u003ehomages\u003c\/i\u003e. 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