Venus, the Bringer of Peace - Gustav Holst's 'The Planets.
The Planets, by Gustav Holst, is a masterful, seven-movement, orchestral suite, written between the years 1914 and 1916. Holst does a fine job launching the suite with the magical movement, Mars: Bringer of War. Later, the artist ends the violence as he introduces, Venus: Bringer of Peace which generates tranquility through a slower tempo.The Planets, Op. 32, orchestral suite consisting of seven short tone poems by English composer Gustav Holst. Its first public performance took place in 1920, and it was an instant success. Of the various movements, “Mars” and “Jupiter” are the most frequently heard. Holst wrote his collection of.With The Planets, Op. 32, composed 1914-1916, Gustav Holst incorporates a wide array of cultural and scientific references to create musical characters for each of the planets in our solar system. The scientific connection is immediately clear simply by looking at how Holst chose to order the.
MARS, the bringer of war. Three musical ideas are used to create this martial piece: (1) a brutally rhythmic figure of five beats relentlessly hammered out, (2) a principal theme in triads moving by chromatic steps with no true harmonic purpose; (3) a second theme consisting of a tattoo in the tenor tuba answered by a flourish of trumpets.While it would be easy and obvious to state that “Mars, the Bringer of War” and “Venus, the Bringer of Peace” are merely polar opposites, one could argue that a deep understanding of Edmund Burke’s distinction between the beautiful and the sublime connects the two movements to one another.
Holst: Venus, the Bringer of Peace (and Enjoyment) The joyfulness and sweetness of Venus, the Bringer of Pleasure and Love, and ruler of Taurus and Libra. Posted by.
