"The Planets: Neptune, the Mystic" Score Reduction and Analysis (Re-edit)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
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Here we have a re-edit of my score reduction and analysis of "The Planets: Neptune, the Mystic" by Gustav Holst.
And fear not... This time, the Harp tremolos in measures 12 and 13 are now in the correct octave (HUZZAH!!).
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Song: "Neptune, the Mystic"
Recorded on: Deutsche Grammaphon Records
Album: "Holst: The Planets"
Artist: Gustav Holst (composer), James Levine (conductor, primary artist)
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Licensed to TH-cam by:
SME (on behalf of Sony Classical); LatinAutor - UMPG, LatinAutor, LatinAutor - Warner Chappell, UBEM, Public Domain Compositions, and 5 Music Rights Societies
This is great stuff...thank you .....The harmony is dervied from a Hexatonic pole. Ab Maj E Min. The C is left out until later when the arpeggios start ( you have them marked as add 9) . The pole produces the pitches G,Ab,B,C,D#,E...This is intergral to the harmony. The planing chords are just triads from the F Prygian mode.
Exactly ! It’s really simple when you thoroughly analyze the Hexatonic poles (all four of them) and than superimpose modal planning of parallel triads. This sonic result has been exploited over and over again in countless of Hollywood film scores. The Planets have been used as temp tracks in countless movies before the composer was invited to the spotting session. Imagine their nightmare : “Oh no ! The Planets again... Ughhh” :-)
Isn't the opening Emin to G#min (not Abmaj)?
I meant Min...soz @@user-fp1nq4rk4m
I appreciate your analysis
I’m confused and think there might be an error. Re the choral part, aren’t all those A# dim chords actually A major chords (e.g. on pg 47 of your reduction… it’s repeated many times). There are 4 sharps in the key signature.
Upon inspection, they are, in fact, A Major triads. I will go back in and fix that. Thank you for pointing that out.
@@nmkmusic6396 I don't blame you. Music theory is hard. Still, check out th-cam.com/play/PLbPnu_ZaPDk2GHEVs06qwGdGK9dRRFUye.html. The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is my favorite recording of the original suite. While it's true that Earth (or Terra, in Latin) has no astrological significance, and Pluto's discovery was six years before Holst died (since August 24th, 2006, Pluto has been known as a dwarf planet because it misses one of the three guidelines to call it a planet), I couldn't help but discover Clément Mepas's composition of "Earth," and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra's recording of "Pluto: The Renewer," so I see my playlist as living up to its name and description. Don’t worry; I’m humble about it.
Edit: I was a few years off for Pluto's discovery and Holst's death. The former happened in 1930, and the latter happened in 1934.
I think the opening figure is slightly wrong. The lines are a sixth apart (Alto Flute should be B, G, B, G, G#, B, D#, C#, etc.). It looks like those written notes are correct in Tenor Clef?
Similarly bar 9 the bottom voice should be a 5th higher. Melody is in planed triads, which then repeats up an octave in the double reeds (which is written correctly).