 Vaughan Williams was not the only composer following a non @-@ narrative approach to his text . Mahler took a similar , perhaps even more radical approach in his Eighth Symphony , presenting many lines of the first part , " Veni , Creator Spiritus " , in what music writer and critic Michael Steinberg referred to as " an incredibly dense growth of repetitions , combinations , inversions , transpositions and <unk> " . He does the same with Goethe 's text in Part Two of the symphony , making two substantial cuts and other changes . 
