Saturn from "The Planets"

Quantity in Basket: none Code: PMP1-MMS-20-015 Composer: Gustav Holst (1874-1934) Arranger: Mort Shafer Instrumentation: French Horn Sextet (includes Treble Clef and Bass Clef parts for Horn 6) Performance Time: 3:45 Price:$10.00

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The Planets became Holst’s best known work. It was meant to be a series of ‘mood pictures’ rather than anything concretely connected with astrology or astronomy, though Holst was known to have been using the book “What Is A Horoscope” by Alan Leo as a guide. This arrangement for horn sextet is of the movement called Saturn or The Bringer of Old Age. This was Holst’s favorite movement, in which 'a threatening clock ticks inexorably as the baseline, revealing both the dignity and frailties of old age. Musically, this is a march, but a hesitant and at times plodding march.

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