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Saturn from Holst's The Planets: a transcription and critical commentary for wind ensemble

Hogan, Benjamin Saturn from Holst's The Planets: a transcription and critical commentary for wind ensemble. 2016. Radford University, Thesis. Radford University Scholars' Repository.

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Abstract

The purpose of this thesis was to create a new transcription of Gustav Holst’s Saturn from The Planets. Through the study of techniques used by George Smith in his transcriptions of Mars and Jupiter, as well as techniques developed through the standard process of transcribing for wind bands a new transcription has been written. Although Holst himself was discouraged by the popular success of The Planets, and did not consider it to be one of his best works, he did consider Saturn his favorite movement. Musicians have had access to the Mars and Jupiter wind band transcriptions for decades, but have not had access to Holst’s favorite movement. Benjamin J. Hogan, M.A. Department of Music, 2016 Radford University

Item Type: Thesis
Subjects: M Music and Books on Music > M Music
Divisions: Radford University > College of Visual and Performing Arts > Department of Music
Date Deposited: 30 Aug 2016 17:40
Last Modified: 20 Apr 2023 18:11
URI: http://wagner.radford.edu/id/eprint/269

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