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Music Analysis Of Holst 's Planet

Posted on:2015-02-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:P Z ZhuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2175330452494532Subject:Music
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The twentieth Century is the western art history in the most colorful one era. Inthis most recently in one hundred years, science and technology are developingrapidly, the development of human society the great historic change, so that peopleare in a hitherto unknown aesthetic concepts and creative thinking to re-examine theera of music works. The inspire more on writing techniques and music style ofinnovation, and the emergence of a group of new genres of music. Thus, thedevelopment of western music in the history has reached an unprecedented prosperityin the new era.In the western music history, Gustav Theodore Holst is a twentieth CenturyBritish Musical Renaissance has a significant contribution to the representativecomposers, is also an active practitioner. His works laid British national style of musicin twentieth Century development foundation.Gustav Theodore Holst,“planets suite”with its unique creative design, superborchestration technique, large orchestra, bold innovation creation means, to establishthe orchestral works in the important position in the modern music.“planets suite”for Holst ’s most representative large-scale orchestral works. His works, agree withthe times, and embodies the national style. This work often in a variety of majoroccasions playing, in world music history occupies an important position. Throughoutthe whole work, although with seven character different planets to name the sevenmovement, but the overall style of music is still highly uniform.Emphasizing the planet suite of classical tradition melody structure under theframework of the twentieth century music language, is worth us to study and learn.
Keywords/Search Tags:Gustav Theodore Holst, the planets, musical structure
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