Listening Guide: Holst's The Planets - Mars, the Bringer of War

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11 жыл бұрын

Animateur Paul Rissmann presents a listening guide to the first movement of Holst's 'The Planets' suite, entitled "Mars, the Bringer of War".
Holst's The Planets was the inspiration behind the Philharmonia Orchestra's pioneering digital installation Universe of Sound.
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@Pyrethryn 9 жыл бұрын

Straight up, when I listen to this while driving my car I feel like I'm riding a war chariot into battle.

@metalsabatico 5 жыл бұрын

John Williams was definitely listening to this one when composing the Star Wars ost. Especially the Imperial March.

@frei000 5 жыл бұрын

Don't forget about the Opening of A New Hope.

@jrlepage2a03 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure I remember reading that George Lucas used excerpts from the Planets suite as placeholders for New Hope before Williams eventually composed the soundtrack. Lucas would have screened the movie to Williams with those excerpts in place, so there's no doubt in my mind the resemblance between the Star Wars soundtrack (both A New Hope and the rest of the films) and the Planets suite is more than fortuitous, and possibly even by design.

@joshuasellers8725 8 жыл бұрын

Writing this in 5/4 was a stroke of genius: the music has the characteristics of a march, but the rhythm should be 2/4 (or 4/4): this is a rhythm for marching feet. Bi-pedal creatures can't march to 5/4 -- and so, in context here, they rhythm suggests something inhuman and bestial about war. Add to that the traditional fanfare in fifths, except falling to the flatted fifth, the tritone, 'diabolus in musica', and Holst has laid down the foundation to a nightmarish vision -- all the more chilling knowing that he wrote this prior to the outbreak of the Great War.

@RobertAslinMusic 7 жыл бұрын

古川 Furukawa Having done a marching show which included Mars, I can tell you it's hard. You can't do a one-bar move, so every set has to be in multiples of ten counts.

@69way3Emp 6 жыл бұрын

Wow! Can't unsee that now

@shrimpman9545 6 жыл бұрын

Joshua Sellers lol our marching band used a bit of 5/4

@Bronze_Age_Sea_Person 3 жыл бұрын

This leap to the fifth with a descend to the tritone resembles a lot the viking war cry from the start of Led Zeppelin's Immigrant song. This melodic movement really "screams" war in the ears.

@BluemountScore 4 жыл бұрын

This one was so incredibly inspiring to many...

@koeien9939 6 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure the war part is because Mars is the Roman form of Ares, the Greek God of War

@BjoernLewin 9 жыл бұрын

absoultely excellent!

@senefelder 6 жыл бұрын

He composed the piece right before WWI but he orchestated it during the war

@philharmonia_orchestra 7 жыл бұрын

Get involved in our #popupplanets! We want to see you playing your favourite extract of Holst's The Planets and you have a chance to win a pair of tickets to our concert in London on Saturday 1 Oct: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b7uJZZyBl6m7YaM.html

@t1000eg 2 жыл бұрын

I would love to have had a cup of tea with Gustav Holst

@DougHanson2769 4 жыл бұрын

Listening to it.

@cengeb 9 жыл бұрын

interesting, great stuff!

@shin-i-chikozima 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful expression

@catherineduc 9 жыл бұрын

Fantastic orchestra and an excellent guide. I'm studying 'Orchestration a new approach' by Norman Ludwin and these listening guides really bring the material alive - thanks so much for posting :)

@philharmonia_orchestra 9 жыл бұрын

Catherine Duc Hi Catherine, we're really glad you're enjoying our listening guides! It's always fascinating to explore new ways of listening to a piece!

@catherineduc 9 жыл бұрын

Philharmonia Orchestra (London, UK) Thanks for your reply. I'm so jealous of one of my friends who moved to London - they have the best orchestras there :)

@philharmonia_orchestra 11 жыл бұрын

you can find quite a few examples on this wikipedia page (search for quintuple meter) - Rachmaninov's 'The Isle of the Dead' is a good example!

@markbernard4156 5 жыл бұрын

3:00 yessssss bass oboe!

@planetgordonx6264 8 жыл бұрын

I cant believe he didnt mention the loud part in the middle of the peice where all the instruments play the ostanado in the song

@DuhAverageJoe 10 жыл бұрын

My favorite in this movement are the french horns!

@bluewolvesstudios2822 3 жыл бұрын

Im curious, isnt this one of the very few pieces that its mandatory to have a large orchestra?

@charleyhibschweiler4555 6 жыл бұрын

listen to mars on full volume.

@MisterMalleable 5 жыл бұрын

Charley Hibschweiler I’d like to keep my hearing in tact thank you

@MattTheTubaGuy 11 жыл бұрын

Also try the second movement of Tchaikovsky's 6th symphony

@fenhen 11 жыл бұрын

Any chance someone can recommend me some more music in 5/4 time? I'm intrigued by the differences.

@jmin777 6 жыл бұрын

"Take Five".😀👍🎶🎵

@apophis7712 Жыл бұрын

Almost a decade late here, but I highly recommend this piece here that's in 5/4 time! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qqundLZjtbG-mnk.html

@JohnQuincySmith1 5 жыл бұрын

How much did Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars have to inspire this?

@Nisreenaaa 3 жыл бұрын

cool

@mason3845 10 жыл бұрын

What about the Euphonium solo? Or the bassoon part?

@mason3845 8 жыл бұрын

***** That wasn't my point. My point was the guy in the video didn't address the euphonium solo or the bassoon & contrabassoon part.

@marsthedude1 7 жыл бұрын

Technically its not a euphonium solo, its a tenor tuba solo.

@mason3845 7 жыл бұрын

They are practically the same thing, and the euphonium is substituted for a true tenor tuba as they are more common. Besides, tenor tubas don't exist anymore, that I'm aware of so a euphonium should be called a tenor tuba.

@Elhardt 8 жыл бұрын

All the other movements in this Holst series are big and impressive sounding in stereo, but this one is in monaural for some reason. It loses a lot of impact because of that.

@eddsworldgaming9696 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the 5 pound box of *DANGER?!* 4:06

@hinkemiki 10 жыл бұрын

genetically trained for a 4/4 feel.....whaaaat??

@DougHanson2769 4 жыл бұрын

5/4 is kind of difficult for me

@k.xoxo. 2 жыл бұрын

I swear this reminds me of the introduction of despicable me and just the whole movie of it😂

@ssctuatara4100 Жыл бұрын

ka🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@aflahsyazani6714 3 жыл бұрын

I dunno why it say 'bringer of the war'?

@Jeremiah_Rivers76 2 жыл бұрын

Mars was Rome’s war god, but this is was written when World War I was near, for one. Plus, Mars represents passion and drive in astrology. Both go into war, so that’s why its subtitle is “The Bringer of War.”

@KSTheGOAT14 Ай бұрын

So the planets were named after some gods in Roman Myth and Greek Myth