Behind the Music of Jupiter, The Planets
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- This is a new series of videos called 'Behind the Music', where I analyse music from all of genres of 'Classical Music' as well as film music. To begin, I'm going to take a detailed look at one of the most well-known pieces of orchestral music ever written - Jupiter from Gustav Holst's 'The Planets'.
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“As if we’re listing to something that always existed.” Well said! Yes, you understand why our heart is satisfied by such orchestration. Thank you!
Which reminds me of your comments concerning the theme of the Grey Havens from the Lord of the Rings.
The part quenches a thirst most of us don't even realise we have.
This channel is insanely underrated.
I tell all my friends about it, regularly. I love his work, and his insight!
Because it's intellectual.
This guy is like a youtube version of Salieri
And it's .dead. He hasnt posted in like 3 months :(
tottally agree
I had thought that Jupiter was comprised of folk tunes that Holst knew; the music sounds so ancient and inevitable. I didn't realize he had composed those themes himself. What a masterful piece of orchestration.
I always tear up a little listening to 8:49 . I think it's because the music is so pure after the almost chaos that came before and it's a revival of what the music is about. At least that's how it is in my head.
Interesting - the same thing happens to me.
Mahler symphony 2 would be a very interesting piece in this format, not only with the story but also the piece itself.
Agree! Also Mahler’s 8th
If you can understand french, I've made a series of videos about Mahler's Second Symphony, which might interest you : th-cam.com/video/WMt6yPH9d0A/w-d-xo.html
The last movement is amazing, the use of voices is incredible.
Yes please
Yes! So down for a monumental 1.5 hour analysis - and I'm not even joking.
Great new format! Keep up the good work 😃
Thank you David!
no way it's david!
you should discuss the planets in one of your videos!
Holst's 1st Suite in Eb for Military Band, while not as gloriously majestic as The Planets, is to me another superb example of Holst's magnificent style of composition. The Holst 1st is one of the three or four works for wind band that are my "titans" of the genre. Love the Listening In page!
Saturn is seriously underrated
The ending of Saturn is top 👌
Those pounding chords in the middle of Saturn are underrated, even within the movement.
@hello Neptune is incredible. The rising choir at the end, almost giving a Shepard tone feel, just feels amazing. Tbh the whole piece is probably one of the best orchestra pieces in history. Not a single movement disappoints.
I think all of the "planets" pieces are overrated
@@Whatismusic123 good for you 👍
When I was a child, one of the TV channels signed off at night with 'Section D'. I was very moved by it (the few times I was up that late). Not long afterward I discovered that my father had an LP of the whole suite. I still have it.
Would love to hear your analysis of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending.
Absolutely, me too, please!!!!!
@@milamorrison878 Thirded!
Wow great editing congratulations! Jupiter is one of the best planets in the suite, hope you can do a Neptune video in the future.
Doing the analysis as narration under the piece itself is a fantastic way of taking the music apart, while simultaneously leaving it fully alive.
This is music appreciation at its finest.
I know the theme at 8:49 is more popular, but my favorite part that always puts a smile on my face is the theme at 5:48. Something about the simple melody combined with the chords and trumpet counter melody really strikes.
Well done analysis by the way.
Ralph Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis would be fascinating, as would an explanation of why Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings sounds so sad.
This music analysis deserves more views. It's so well made.
I love the layout of the shots with the talent in a window, the notated music in the upper right (not always linear lines of music) and the piano in the bottom right. It's simplistic, informative, and easy to follow. Well done!
Hey, that's a good face that you've got
Thank you Brian. I like your face too. (actually, in all seriousness, I was inspired to put my face in this little box from watching your videos...)
I'd love for you to do some Rimsky-Korsakov! I've heard him called the greatest orchestrator of all time, so it would be interesting to learn what makes him so. Some concerti would also be cool, perhaps looking at what makes the solo/orchestra balance work. Tchaik 1 would be a great one
This was my last performance before Covid hit. One of my favorite pieces to play horn on might honestly be the only reason that I play professionally
Absolutely fantastic choice for the first of a new series! I'd be interested to see your take on Stravinsky's "Firebird" suite, especially the last section. It feels so simple with notes that are being played-it's basically a two-bar 6/4 phrase repeated over and over-but it's like an extended example of Section D in "Jupiter" with the gradual development and addition of parts of the orchestra.
I absolutely love the Firebird suite. We played it my freshman year of high school and I've been in love with it ever since.
I always dream of you analyzing the very last scene of Götterdämmerung. I can imagine your final narration drop as the redemption motif comes in for the last time (maybe with Kupfer or Chereau's production). Oh how I'm ready to cry watching that.
Great stuff. Thank you. As it turns out, Mars from The Planets is, for me, the most impactful and emotional piece of classical music. I would love to watch your analysis! Thank you again Sir.
Very thoughtful analysis! I love this piece too, and one reason is that, for me at least, Holst evokes actual laughter ("Bringer of Jollity" after all!). In your Section B in the 4th pattern, the separated notes grouped in threes, especially the descending figures, call to mind "Ho ho ho!" in a jolly Santa Claus way. All the better to contrast with the legato hymn melody in the second half of the piece.
I think Ravel's Boléro could be interesting. It's one piece of music played 18 times, but constantly changing up the instruments so it builds throughout.
Looks like my request has been noticed, as this is now a video.
@@JorWat25 congrats
If you're interested in Ravel's Boléro, you might also like MINUSBOLERO by J. Kreidler. Give it a listen!
I was never any good at analyzing music myself. I studied the sociology of music because the theory was just too much for me to handle. But I love analysis being explained to me because I remember just enough to appreciate the complexities. Thanks for breaking down one of my favorite pieces of all time.
bro i just watch like 10 of your videos I a row, I freaking love you. funny thing about me and this piece is, that no one ever introduced me to it. saying oh this is an amazing song, rather I listened to the entirety of the plants and i immediately liked mars. well later I went back to the plants and realized this song was beautiful beyond words, at least words I know. this is the piece that truly opened my eyes to classical music or "art music" as it's technical name. sure I still listen to metal and psychedelic rock more but I believe I can appreciate this music, I once thought was bad and outdated. also love you lord of the rings videos that's how i found you channel. keep up the great work
Pattern B always reminded me of the Reentry piece for Apollo 13's soundtrack, and I always pictured a capsule streaking fire across Jupiter's sky, buffeted by high winds and clouds as it plummets downward with the excitement of exploration.
Fantastic analysis. This is great stuff for songwriting - you did a wonderful job explaining how the various musical elements were constructed, and how they contribute to the message of the music. I really enjoyed your approach. Thank you!
A very charitable analysis. I know The Planets has received some criticism for the lack of development in its themes. I think you’ve referenced this obliquely, choosing instead to focus on its strengths.
I am so annoyed that this channel doesn't get what it deserves. These videos and all these breakdowns you do are so thoughtful and thought provoking. An eager to learn and discover more is what I get when I watch any of your videos. Thank you for all of your amazing work mate!
Oh so many good pieces, Ralph Vaughn Williams Fantasy on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Max Bruch's Scottish Fantasy.
I love this idea for a series. I once tried to do a similar thing as a blog, but lost drive after about 40 posts as I was still only followed by my friends providing nominal support. TH-cam would have been a great place for me to do this like you, but I don't have the video experience to do this.
I would love to write for you if you want that, but nw if you want to keep this channel just for your own work.
Hi Dandalf - that sounds really interesting, and I’m sorry you felt you couldn’t continue with your blogs. Do you think you could send me a link to them via my email (barnabymartincomposer@gmail.com) and we can maybe chat about things as well?
Or, alternatively, can you please post the link here? I’d still watch to the videos anyway tho ahahah
This is great! Jupiter us my favorite of the planets suite. I would love to see some more analysis of the music from Lord of the Rings. I know that you already did a series in it but there are so few creators out there who can actually create a good musical analysis of Howard Shore's masterwork. You are so good at this. I love your work.
I feel Jupiter inspired both Aaron Copland and John Williams. Really the whole Planets suite inspired the latter…
Wow your Channel Is so great that i can't believe that It even exist!
I was a bit late to this channel and i realise you may be busy elsewhere nowadays, but I can't tell you how much it has come to mean to me over the past year - thank you for deepening my understanding of why certain great music moves us the way it does. I am a songwriter but not a trained one, so your analyses are helping me learn more there too. Thank you so much 🙏🙏
Beautifully done ... .40 years of listening to Jupiter and the most striking to me *still* is that tremendous slowdown (and key change) very near the end, signaling what sounds like yet another even more *expansive* version than any before is about to start. That it never 'takes off' into a full iteration or variation is still okay: the suggestion that more fullness and joy/jollity is about to come again is enough... (But I'd never stopped to think how the rest of the parts before that were combined -- and thank you for that!)
So well edited, love the seamlessness between the orchestral and synthesized illustrations.
This is one of the most beautiful melodies ever made and the way in which its presented does so much to make it timeless.
I am so glad I found this channel! I’ve been looking for deeper analysis of classical and this awesome
this was a brilliant video analysis! im so glad i discovered your channel, keep up the good work, i cant describe how much i love these kind of videos
What a brilliant analysis. As much as I can love and appreciate music like this on an instinctive level, having someone with your expertise break it down and explain *why* I love it makes me admire it in a whole new way. Thank you!
Brilliant! Can't wait for the rest of the series, what a great idea!
So happy to have discovered this channel. Learning so much.
Insightful analysis of the greatest of all orchestral pieces. I love the irresistible way the tempo keeps ebbing and flowing throughout.
Extremely well done! So nice to see you explaining it on camera! Have been recommending this channel to many of my friends recently. So excited to see the channel grow and for more people to be enthused by your wonderful analysis 💗 You are helping to make classical music accessible to everyone!
I love this piece so much that I walked down the isle to it. Thank you for your brilliant analysis!
Fantastic analysis! One of my absolute favourite pieces of classical music that I still study regularly. Thank you for this, keep doing what you're doing :)
Thank you so much. I’m a retired professional musician who walked out the door after 45 years, and haven’t played a note since. I’m pursuing other artistic creative avenues in quilting and a large card ministry. Hearing your analysis of “Jupiter” was delightful, and reminded me of how much I love Holst, especially his Suites for band. Of course, the I go down the Ralph Vaughan Williams rabbit hole! Thank you so much!
Jupiter is my favorite classical piece ever. It has brought me to tears of joy. I just love how you breakdown these songs and explain things in a lovely manner
Loved this and all of your essays, but this format is a wonderful, fresh addition! It’s also nice to see your face! You clearly love what you do ☺️
You just earned a sub! Great job! I was a band kid in high school and I always found this stuff fascinating. Never majored in music but still super intrigued by all this stuff. I love this piece and I loved your analysis!
It was 1918. Who knows what Holst knew or didn't know about the planets. To this day, no one can be completely sure of anything about the planets because we haven't been to them yet. But the ballad section of Jupiter is no doubt one of the moments he got absolutely right. As you said in the video, it's like we're "listening to something that's always existed." So many brilliant things happen in the fast sections, yet the slow section is the part everyone would recognize as Jupiter.
I would love to see second Viennese school music introduced in this manner. I think so few resources exist to familiarize beginner listeners with such music, and that your skills in discussing music may be just what is needed to fill that hole.
Yeah, especially Webern's 6 pieces for orchestra or Berg's Violin Concerto
@@georgekelk9575 Webern op. 6 is incredible!
I remember playing this song on my high school trip to Japan. In the trombone section. This song stood out the most to me out of everything I played in my 7 year band career. Absolutely beautiful!
Thank you for this phenomenal analysis, excellently conceived and executed! Also, thanks Holst (and the like) for pretty much all film scores!
Really enjoyed this insightful analysis, thank you! The Planets in particular always gives me the visceral, nostalgic memory/feeling of rocking up to assembly back in Primary school!
Loved the pace and how the analysis almost ran at the same pace as the music. Just a few suggestions of the Rite of Spring, Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune, and it’s a bit of a stretch for a popular audience but the Berg Violin Concerto would be an absolutely stunning piece to do in a format like this!
MORE! You are brilliant! The structure and flow of this video is excellent!
This series is so cool! I am learning so many stuff from your analysis. Thank you so much!
Thank you for these videos (all of them - but this is one of my favorites from the channel!). I know you’ve moved onto other things, understandably so, but so glad these remain here to watch over and over 💙
I am indescribably impressed by your videos and I think this is my favorite so far. I won't listen to this piece the same again. Thank you for your hard work!
Great video. You have really knocked the ball out of the park. Cant wait for episode 2.
fantastic! great analysis, thank you for deconstructing such a complex work into understandable form!
This video is so well done! I would love to see more analysis like this on one of Mahler's symphonies. Great work!
I think this would be amazing as a podcast.
When i listen to jupiter i do see the atrological inspirations but this song in particular creates such vivid images of the planet. This song captures a lot of feeling. Triumph and tragedy and salvation and hope and LOVE all rolled into one snowball of emotion. It’s mostly very quick melodies capturing triumph and hope and whatever, but everything else culminates in that famous part near the middle. That best captures jupiter as a planet. Seeing it clearly as it rises above some distant horizon. Or seeing part of it illuminated as it turns over to see the sun again. Jupiter is a planet full of history and emotion. Read about it. It’s formation and role in the solar system are fascinating and it is so important. We rely on it like a second star, which, if things had gone right, it would’ve been. That part of the song feels like meeting an old friend, or a family member you haven’t seen in forever, or feeling the sun rise after a cold night, or watching rays of light hit the trees at sundown. It’s incredible. I don’t understand how that was achieved.
Debussy and how he built his harmonies off pentatonic and whole tone scales would be awesome. And there can never be enough analysis on Symphonie Fantastique No. V.
This video is the best explanation of this piece I've ever heard. I hope you get the recognition you deserve :)
Joyous ending to Jupiter and joyous video indeed. Such an exciting series to come. I will wait with eager anticipation for your next choice.
Love this work and this piece in particular. Another brilliant analysis. I'd love to see you apply this to Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.
This channel is more than amazing!! I really miss your videos!
i’m so excited to see you do more in this series!!
dude thats pure gold of work you do here. thanks for this content! Please keep it up!
God tier editing as usual! I hope you get to all the planets. My favorite, mercury, seems vastly underrated.
Yes! Yes! Yes! I’ve been waiting for this since I started watching this channel!
Really enjoyed that look into one of my favourite pieces; thank you for making it. Another favourite is Vaughan Williams's 'Tallis Fantasia'; it would be interesting to have a look at how he took one simple melody and did so much with it.
The planets was one of the first pieces of classical music i heard. I love the work. Amazing analysis as always
Mahler fan? Based
Excellent job. It is unbelievable how underrated this channel is.
Thank you for this video, I love Holst’s planets and Jupiter is one of my favorites from it. New appreciation is found.
Thank you, I enjoyed your analysis. Found this because I've just started trying to study the piece, and the things you point out make me admire Holst all the more. My only gripe about The Planets is that I wish he'd stopped at Jupiter (which would make it pretty much a symphony), and put the other three movements somewhere else. After Jupiter - the fourth of four perfect movements - you don't want any more, at least I don't!
Another amazing video. I love your content. Wish I found this content sooner.
Your videos are always a delight!
Thanks for your work!
Excellent analysis and a really engaging video, as usual. I've been thinking of doing something similar to this for my favourite album (Yes' _Tales from Topographic Oceans),_ and some of the points brought up here made me notice a few similarities in the compositional approaches of the two pieces. Thanks for the inspiration to keep working on that, and for being an all-round great videoer!
I definitely want you to analyze Elsa Procession to The Cathedral. It’s criminally underrated and incredibly gorgeous and really need more fans!
This video is so amazing! You convinced me that this is the most amazing composition in music history! Thank you for this video!
This is amazing, exactly the kind of analysis I was looking for to make a Jupiter-inspired piece. Thanks!
Superb. Thank you so much. Some people may not be aware that the “folk” section was used in the anthemic English patriotic hymn I Vow to Thee My Country. Search by that name, and you’ll find many excellent performances on TH-cam.
Great video! This song is what made me want to play the french horn, played for about 8 years and got to play this in orchestra
I've actually quit listening to music ( recreationally for my mental health), now I only hear it in movies, podcasts, outside randomly, or in video essays such as this.
Such an exhilarating experience.
Great channel.
At 11:09 where you describe the crescendo as "one of the most unexpectedly beautiful moments in music history" is so well put. I couldn't agree more and I have that piece on a loop to listen to over and over.
Thank you for a wonderful analysis.
holy heck this channel is pure gold
So nice to see your face! It’s a lot of work to narrate on camera (I know first hand). You’ve made the transition seamless. You must have an incredible memory. Very nicely done.
I am subscribing, because I want to see more of this series "Behind the Music", on the mean time bring me back to love of classic music ...
Discovered your channel only recently. like finding a hidden pot of gold! Exceptional!
Excellent. The explanation about this composition composed by Holst give the listener a better understanding of this composed work . Nice work & very under rated .
Love your stuff. Can't wait for the next episodes!
Thanks!! Awesome as always! Really appreciate your work!!
Also a little suggestion: Luc Brewaeys, Talisker. Look into it, you won't regret it!
Well done, I enjoyed this video the whole way through! I'd love to see more
I love this!!
You have a fantastic way of getting nerdy with the score, without being dry and boring in your presentation. Top notch!
My recommendation for your next video would be one of these 3:
1. Scheherazade
2. Dvorak's 9th
3. Rachmaninov's 1st
The planets is a complete study in orchestration too. Great video.