Holst : the planets / Richard Greene.
By: Greene, Richard
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Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 784.21858 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00103264 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Bibliography: p. 97-98. - Includes Index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 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