Holst, Gustav CHORAL 'I VOW TO THEE MY COUNTRY' Trascrizione da Concerto per Grande Organo from 'Jupiter The Planet Suite'. 'The Planets', Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 19. Each movement of the suite.
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Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 –) was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his. Holst : Fun Facts and Trivia This category is for questions and answers related to Holst, as asked by users of FunTrivia.com. Related quizzes can be found here: Holst. Find out more about Holst's The Planets. Watch and listen to different recordings and download your favourite. Find out about Holst - The Planets. Watch, listen and.
Gustav Holst: The Planets Suite. Music derived from astrology is surprisingly rare. The ancient Greek philosophers, whatever their. It was they, after all, who put forward the idea of the "Music of the Spheres".
They knew. of seven planets: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Not surprisingly, Western.
Music and astrology come together again in this suite devoted. Sun and Moon are displaced by Uranus and Neptune. Gustav Holst (1. 87. Greek. idea of the Music of the Spheres, and he drew heavily on this knowledge in his composition. Planets Suite. It was first performed in the autumn of 1. Here we present excerpts of Holst's famous Planets Suite as MIDI files (in *. Their traditional.
Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. There is. no piece for Pluto because this planet was not discovered until 1. Holst was busy. composing this suite almost twenty years before. New and improved versions of many of these midi offerings are welcome. Additions to our notes. Planets Suite (2.
At long last. we can offer the world the complete Planets Suite in MIDI format! Click here to grab all seven. Mercury: The Winged Messenger (7. Fleet- footed Mercury flits about through this piece sounding not unlike a cosmic butterfly. He. belongs very much in the Garden of Venus that precedes him in the performance. Our thanks go out to David Siu for this.
Venus: The Bringer of Peace (6. The very picture of beauty and refinement in taste, this is the Venus of ancient Rome: a sprite. This provides. the counterpoint to the unshackled violence of Mars.
Contributed by David Siu as well. Mars: The Bringer of War (1. The full horror of mechanised warfare confronts us face to face in this bleakest of all tone. Its face is unrepentent, unrelenting and merciless and it offers us no hope of redemption. Thousands of pairs of jackbooted feet parade across the landscape, scurrying to their graves. Tanks pound cities into rubble.
Bullets fly and bombs fall. Airplanes swoop low overhead. How. surprising it is, then, to learn that Holst completed this piece long before the opening. First World War, before the invention of the tank, before any plane had ever been fitted. Jupiter: The Bringer of Jollity (1.
The spirit of this music is very much in keeping with the astrological significance of Jupiter as. This Jupiter has no thunderbolts to hurtle down on us. He has come down from Olympus to flirt with beauties. We hear him. chasing but not catching the ladies. He invites all to dance, then seems not to favour any one. The music emerges from its cavorting, twirling and gambolling out onto.
A very famous poem, near and dear to British hearts, was later set to this music and the two have. The first verse was played at the Royal Wedding of Charles and Diana. Diana's funeral. And there's another Country. I've heard of long ago. Most Dear to them that Love her. Great to them that Know. We may not count her Armies.
We may not see her King. Her Fortress is a faithful Heart.
Pride is Suffering. And Soul by Soul and silently. Bounds increase. And her ways are ways of Gentleness. Peace! We may not count her Armies. We may not see her King. Her Fortress is a faithful Heart. Pride is Suffering.
And Soul by Soul and silently. Bounds increase. And her ways are ways of Gentleness. Peace! Saturn: The Bringer of Old Age (5. Serene and deliberate are the words best describing the tone of this piece. We can hear Saturn.
Yet, when he arrives, we find him not. The deliberation is still there, the. Uranus: The Magician (8. This is not the god Uranus of mythology we meet here - - not Ouranos of the Sky who fathered.
Titans on Gaia and whom even Saturn (Kronos) found so odious as to be worthy of overthrow. Uranus as the ruler of astrological Aquarius. As such, he has more in common with the Titan. Prometheus than with any other figure. Prometheus was damned by the gods for sharing their knowledge. Magician who cannot keep his secrets - - and thus keeps company.
Serpent of Eden coiled about the Tree of Knowledge. This magician is bumbling and accident.
But this veil of eccentricity cloaks deep. So what is he - - an adept or just inept? On the last try. he gets it right and we hear the opening of the doorway into eternity. Neptune: The Mystic (1.
And. this is the eternity that Uranus has revealed to us. The chasm opens and we step out into the void. We have a sense of a floating cascade through empty space, through Neptune's watery depths. Celestial harmonies surround us and we hear choirs of angels receding into the distance. Contibuted by David Siu once again.