The Planets (Volume 1)

General Info

Subtitle: Mercury & Jupiter
Composer: Gustav Holst
Arranger: Scott Weatherson
Publisher: Edition Svitzer
Difficulty: Intermediate to Advanced
Cost: $72.95

Description

Gustav Holst's The Planets is a masterful tone poem composed a century ago, and today is a favorite among musicians and audiences alike. Scott Weatherson has arranged four of the movements into two volumes for a large percussion ensemble. This volume contains two movements from The Planets: the flittering, spritely Mercury, the Winged Messenger and the joyful, regal Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity. Allow your percussion orchestra to play one of the greatest pieces of music ever written. All players only need to play with two mallets.

Instrumentation

Player 1: Glockenspiel
Player 2: Chimes
Player 3: Xylophone
Player 4: Xylophone
Player 5: Vibraphones
Player 6: Vibraphones
Player 7: Marimbas
Player 8: Marimbas
Player 9: Marimbas
Player 10: 5 Timpani

Arrangements for Percussion by this Arranger

Carmen: Suite from the Opera
Ma Mère l`Oye
March and Waltz from The Sleeping Beauty
Polovtsian Dances
The Planets (Volume 1)
The Planets (Volume 2)