2014年10月15日 星期三

Anything can be a musician's material of his work of art,even a planet. The Planets suite(行星組曲)created by Gustav Theodore Holst who had the idea and finished it in 1916.

Actually,there are only seven segments in the whole composition which disobey our common sense of 8 or 9 main planets in solar system.


The reason? Because they just believe in themseves! In 1910s scientists had not discovered the Pluto (冥王星) ,thus there believed there were only seven planets in the solar system.Therefore, there are only seven in the whole work of art.



And I want to introduce you the most popular segment in this composition - Jupiter The Bringer of Jollity. As you can see from the topic, this segment is filled with happiness and, also, great melody, too.

What are we waiting now? That's enjoy the music now.


And there are other segments of the composition, you can search it on youtube .

Thank you for your visiting.


(Sources:  http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/古斯塔夫·霍尔斯特
                 http://hjly.k618.cn/kxsk/jctj/201208/t20120820_2368627.html)






2 則留言:

  1. I have heard Jupiter before, and I like it very much.

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  2. It seems that I had heard of it when I was in junior high school! Thanks for your sharing~

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