Holst: The PlanetsCambridge University Press, 16 mar 1995 - 99 páginas This book is the first comprehensive guide to Holst's orchestral suite The Planets. It considers the music in detail and places the work in its historical context, describing the circumstances of its composition and its meteoric rise to popular acclaim. Starting with Holst's particular interest in astrology, Greene reveals a profound statement of human character and Holst's own psychological journey toward the mystical state. Using parallels in the verbal and visual arts, Greene weaves here a fascinating tale of musical communication. |
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Hoist and the two Londons | 8 |
Holst in London to 1914 | 9 |
London after the war | 12 |
Holsts reputation through the war years and after | 13 |
Genesis | 16 |
Origins and models | 18 |
Chronology and working method | 24 |
Reception | 28 |
the Magician | 59 |
the Mystic | 62 |
On becoming The Planets the overall design | 66 |
the transformation of the first theme of Mars | 70 |
the search for largescale structural control | 75 |
musical character and the search for serenity | 78 |
Musical character versus programmaticism | 80 |
Epilogue | 81 |
The character plots 1 Mars to Mercury | 38 |
the Bringer of War | 40 |
the Bringer of Peace | 45 |
the Winged Messenger | 50 |
The character plots 2 Jupiter to Neptune | 53 |
the Bringer of Old Age | 55 |
Holsts public performances 190821 | 84 |
Comparison of tempos in selected recordings of The Planets | 88 |
Notes | 91 |
Select bibliography | 95 |
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Términos y frases comunes
aspect astrological audience Balfour Gardiner bass Birmingham cadence center theme Choral Hymns chord Clifford Bax Cloud Messenger composer composer's composition concept context contrast conventional critics Debussy dissonance earlier Edmund Rubbra Egdon Heath English example fanfare final formal Furthermore gesture grammar Gustav Holst harmonic heard Holst's music Hymn of Jesus idioms Imogen Holst individual movements Japanese Suite Jupiter Klangfarben Leo's listener logic major March London Mars melody Mercury metaphor Michael Short minor 2nd Mora motive musical action musical character mystical Neptune orchestral oscillating ostinato parallel particular perfect 5th perhaps piece Planets plot popular music première program music program notes programmaticism progression psychological resolution rhetorical Rig Veda Saturn seems semitone sense serenity Somerset Rhapsody Songs Without Words sonority Stravinsky structure style subtitles success Symphony tempos texture tonal tonal function tone tonic triads tritone Trpt tune Uranus Vaughan Williams Venus