Richard Greene, Greene Richard

Holst

The Planets
Herausgeber: Rushton, Julian

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive guide to Holst's orchestral suite considers the music in detail and places the work in its historical context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 285g
• ISBN-13: 9780521450003
• ISBN-10: 0521450004
• Artikelnr.: 24722860

Autorenporträt

Richard Greene is a poet, or has been at least since he retired from a 38-year career in international development. A lawyer by training, he fell into his development career by accident when, after law school, though planning not to practice law but interested in international affairs, he accepted an unsolicited job offer from the U.S. Agency for International Development. After a few years in Washington (or Foggy Bottom, as the location of the U.S. foreign policy establishment is known), he was assigned as legal advisor to the USAID mission in Laos and there discovered that the development business suited his interests and inclinations very well. Greene wrote poetry beginning in the 8th grade and continued through college where he studied with a Professor, Henry Rago, who later became editor of Poetry magazine, the leading U.S. poetry journal. However, he wrote few poems after law school as he became absorbed in international development, but turned back to poetry as he neared retirement.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: musical character and a theory of musical rhetoric
1. Holst and the two Londons
2. Genesis
3. Reception
4. The character plots (1): Mars to Mercury
5. The character plots (2): Jupiter to Neptune
6. On becoming The Planets: the overall design
Epilogue
Appendices
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.