The Planet By Gustav Holst

In the second movement, the percussion section is more noticeable, especially at the beginning. This movement is also in D minor. The range of the melodic tune is dramatic. At times, I recognized the downbeat in three measures (da da da). This

WTO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4PS8-_5UFw) begins as a pastoral piece, with flutes, clarinets and oboes taking turns with the melody, embellished by trills. A triangle provides an almost imperceptible ringing, reminiscent of dew shimmering on grass. Suddenly, at about 2:40, the orchestra erupts with the familiar "Lone Ranger" theme. Brass, woodwinds, strings and percussion convey a sense of drama and urgency. At about four minutes, the strings carry the melody and the volume drops, building again within the next minute as all instruments of the orchestra contribute to the sound and excitement. The piece continues to building in volume and tempo until its conclusion. It is very similar in this way to the Overture 1812, creating a military mood with tempo, rhythms and instrumentation.

Mars, the Bringer of War, is a programmatic composition by Gustavo Holst: British composer of orchestral pieces, operas and choral part-songs. Mars is the first segment in a 7 movement programmatic piece by Holst, The Planets, in which the Roman astrological characteristics of Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are depicted. The movement, Mars, carries out three consistent themes: a brutally rhythmic figure of five beats relentlessly hammered out in a 5/4 rhythm, a principal theme in triads moving by chromatic steps without any true harmonic purpose, and a second theme consisting of a calling melody by the tenor tuba answered by an embellishment of trumpets.

Throughout the piece, the brass plays the theme in alteration with the timpani and tam-tam. Although the theme is simple, together they create a long musical idea. The overall dynamic of the brass grows throughout creating a sense of power especially when

The book Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Coates writes a letter, addressing his son. He composed this message to his fifteen-year-old son, who that year had learned of the unjustified murders of numerous black individuals, including Eric Garner and Michael Brown; killed by police officers who received no punishment for their actions. Coates describes to his son many realities, that he has experienced firsthand, with which a black person must contend. He details his difficult childhood, living in fear – fear of the streets, fear of the police, fear of losing his body. In his letter, he illustrates how Howard University, the Mecca, and his experiences and interactions there shaped him. Another incident he discusses as one that

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The year is 1788 as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began to work on his last three symphonies during a time of strife for musicians as the Austro-Turkish War continues to war on in Austria. Tired from moving his family from central Vienna to the suburbs of Alsergrund all while in debt to his ears as he continued to borrow money from friends including a fellow mason, Michael Puchberg, Mozart finished his final symphony on August 10, 1788. This piece, nicknamed the “Jupiter Symphony,” coined by impresario Johann Peter Saloman, was Mozart’s longest symphony with a total of four movements, a typical symphonic form during the Classical era. The Jupiter Symphony totals to about forty five minutes of music ending

In 1912, his performance of The Cloud Messenger was a hit, so he went to Spain for a holiday to celebrate. While there, he met Clifford Bax, who encouraged him to write a movement called The Planets. It was very successful.

Who is the composer (full name and dates)? List three points about his life and environment.

In 1832 he published his first composition which was a piano sonata and symphony that were influenced heavily by Beethoven (Bonds 464). However; in attempting to write these kinds of music he realized he loved theatre music (Bonds 463). Wagner spent a lot of time with the theatre he was able to see Geyer preform and see all the inner workings of the theatre (Jacobs 3). Through his experiences with the theatre he began to develop his own ideas of music. He only valued music for the operatic images that struck him (Jacobs 6). His image of music from the beginning seemed to be very narrow

With The Planets, Op. 32, composed 1914-1916, Gustav Holst incorporates a wide array of cultural and scientific references to create musical characters for each of the planets in our solar system. The scientific connection is immediately clear simply by looking at how Holst chose to order the movements. While he does not specifically place the planets in order of distance from the sun, they still follow a pattern that clearly references their positions in space. Mars, Venus, and Mercury open the suite, being numbers 3, 2, and 1 from the sun (neglecting to count Earth, which does not appear). Following this are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, being numbers 4, 5, 6, and 7 in order. While an awareness of their scientific positions is

The musical composition of The Planets By Gustav Holst is composed of many different sections of music. In particular, the first two sections of The Planets, Mars: Bringer of War and Venus: Bringer of Peace are alike and unalike in many ways. The composer creates a warlike tone with the composition of Mars whereas, Venus has a more peaceful tone. The composition of Mars has bolder notes and a faster tempo than Venus. The instruments play different notes and pitches in both compositions, therefore creating two different dynamics of music. In Mars trumpets, timpani, trombone, tuba, and the french horn is what makes the harmony of the work very different from that of Venus. The rhythm of War is also louder and faster than Venus, this creates a

This turn of events in his life prompted Wagner to stop writing another one of his most highly-regarded pieces, “Der Ring des Nibelungen”, to begin writing “Tristan und Isolde”. One of the more notable pieces of inspiration of his libretto resulted after meeting philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer. Many of Schopenhauer’s ideas were eye opening and impactful on Wagner’s general perception. His first form

our solar system, but they are unimportant compared to the nine major planets. In this paper I will discuss the planets and how they are each unique.

    The first movement of the suite is Mars Bringer of War which refers to the God of War. This movement includes various instruments such as tubas, trumpets, trombones, horns, timpani, flutes, clarinets, violins, cellos, and snare drums. The movement was characterized by five beats and a minor scale which indicates the opposite of happy. There is no harmonic purpose in the Bringer of War piece, I would classify it as an inhuman piece of work because war is horrific, insensible at all costs. The music was suspenseful and tormenting since the beginning, it had a fast tempo throughout the whole movement. Many dynamics were used all the way through, when the movement was finishing up many rests kept showing as if war came to an end or was coming to an end. Mars, Bringer of War gave me an utterly angry, threatening vibe, the combination of the rhythms, the vibrato of the string instruments and the beats of the drum gave the whole movement a military essence. Although I believe that the rhythm, in the beginning, was not the same in the end it somehow slightly changed. Gustav creates