Holst: The Planets

Klappentext This book is the first comprehensive guide to Holsts' popular 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction: musical character and a theory of musical rhetoric; 1. Holst and the two Londons; 2. Genesis; 3. Reception; 4. The character plots (1): Mars to Mercury; 5. The character plots (2): Jupiter to Neptune; 6. On becoming The Planets: the overall design; Epilogue; Appendices; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Greene, Richard (Loyola University Greene, Greene Richard
• Assisted by: Julian Rushton (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.1995
• EAN: 9780521456333
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45633-3
• No. of pages: 112
• Series: Cambridge Music Handbooks; Cambridge Music Handbooks
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous