Nerd Soup I came to this video because of you btw. Not heard these in years then your reviews used them and I'm here. Great videos btw, I had a similar idea and I copped out because i didn't have the balls you have.
Alex Davis Not really John Williams fault, he was instructed by George Lucas to make music that sounded similar to that of Holsts planets. This happens all the time to composers who compose for film, they don't really get a say in the matter. Trust me, if they had the choice they would do something else.
Fun fact! When they were making star wars in the 70’s they used this song to back a lot of their scenes when they were still putting it together. And Lucas liked it so much that he basically asked Williams to score a soundalike so that they could use it in their movie. That’s why it sounds so similar
@@duckyboi2297 Also North America, Africa and Asia (Ottoman Empire, European Colonies, later USA). Only really neutral continent during WW1 was South America.
@@eh1600 ehh no. Japanese conquests in asia were nothing. North americ had no fighting only the US and canada delpoyed their troops in europe. Africa had a bit of fighting and the middle east had a bit aswell. The biggest and important battles were in europe.
My school band is playing this as our challenge piece this year and the main motif of the song (see the rhythm section at the beginning) is dreadful. Like there’s chromatic triplet scale runs in wind, the horrible motif in low brass, these crazy dissonance parts everywhere. I would NOT want to be my band teacher right about now, it sounds like fresh ass 👎
As a lad at school i played a comb and paper...that shiny izal toilet paper sadly. Im not a musician sadly, but i DO love to listen to gifted musicians. God bless you all. xx
John Williams: "Hey, can I copy your homework?" Holst: "Yea sure, just change it a bit so it doesn't look like you copied mine" John Williams: *star wars songs*
I always use the sound at 4:16 to test out any new headphones I buy. Volume all the way up, of course; I don't want to just hear it - I want to FEEL it.
I do not mind the warnings of the possibility of deafness, I want to melt my being with this music. When girls ask me what music I like, I'm able to put this with speakers, and I don't care if they leave, this is more beautiful than anything they can give
I think it's more the case that there's nothing original anymore. You should check out Henry Purcell. His 'Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary', better known as the Clockwork Orange theme, has been so much covered in electronic music and by club DJ's that you'd hardly believe it was written in 1695.
Stuart M. hmm Holst's work is great but to think originality ended in 1916 is a bit of an overreach. I can think of at least 3 movements in Jazz that came about post 1916 (swing, bebop and free) which cast doubt on that assertion, I won't even go into funk, soul or rock and roll. And then there's other regions such as Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa which all had innovative movements in music. Holst's is great but that statement is an oversimplification at least.
davidevgen Hardly mate. Scriabin, Stravinsky, Ravel, Debussy, Bartok and Schönberg had already released way more daring pieces and were already popular at the time.
+Stuart M. Um, Yann Tiersen, John Williams, Jack Johnson, Phillip Glass, Passenger, the Beatles, Caravan Palace, and Joe Hisaishi would like an apology now.
Everyone is talking about John Williams and Star Wars when it comes to Holst's Mars. If John Williams was inspired by it, Hans Zimmer just changed a few notes and slapped Gladiator on it.
Several Star Wars themes came out of this piece: The section at 1:22 sounds very similar to the Rebel Fanfare. The drawn out section at 6:35 is very similar to the music that plays just before the Death Star blows up. A similar piece of music is also used in the opening during the shot of the Star Destroyer pursuing the Tantive IV. I think John Williams actually said that Lucas asked him to make the music sound like that when he was scoring the movie. I'm guessing that Holst's music was probably used in the rough cut of the movie as a placeholder before the score was finished. Some say that this piece sounds similar to The Imperial March, but I've also heard that about Chopin's funeral march. I can't pinpoint any particular moments that stand out, but it's definitely possible.
In addition to Star Wars, battlerock Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy has a clear reference to it. I think it’s pretty much just become tradition for every space-themed media to include this motif in some way.
Pay close attention to Gustav Holst's 'The Planets' and you'll hear the inspiration for John Williams' musical score for the Star Wars saga, Jerry Goldsmith's musical score for Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Alien, and James Horner's musical score for Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan and Aliens. Gustav Holst invented the musical score for the modern science fiction-space epic.
Kent Tang Yep! Hans Zimmer was also influenced by Holst. I only omitted him because Gladiator wasn't a space epic. It would be great if Zimmer did one of those, though.
Your message made me wanna get creative and make this... Mercury - Industrial Metal Venus - Avant-Garde Metal Earth - Drone Metal Mars - Thrash Metal Jupiter - Death Metal Saturn - Doom Metal Uranus - Atmospheric Black Metal Neptune - Heavy Metal Pluto - Black Metal The asteroid belt can be something like Grindcore and Eris can be a mix of Post and Sludge.
Are you so stupid that you think music gets worse with time? That makes absolutely no sense. Were you born this stupid or did your parents drop you on your head?
Not only an inspiration for Star Wars score, but also inspired early heavy metal. The original Black Sabbath riff was Tony Iommi playing Mars on guitar with some alterations
SD501st me i was on the toilet and thought: well that feel like a EPIC moment... Silly title pop into my mind: "revenge of the shit" "Hemorrhoid strike back" "The last poop" To name a few... 😂😂😂
I got to hear this played by a symphony. Awesome!! It's amazing how this composer created music for each of the planets and nailing each one like he knew them personally, like he had visited them. What inspiration he had!
Technically he wrote them for the Roman gods (hence venus was happy go lucky despite the fact it's the most hostile to us) , so he probably studied mythology a lot
You’ve got it all wrong. Holst and a group of artists vacationed in Majorca, Spain, in the summer of 1913, where Holst read a book on horoscopes one of them brought. He used what he learned to create the suite. All seven movements’ names are named after the planets’ *astrological* qualities. Mars is all about action, Venus focuses on inner peace, Mercury holds court over communication, Jupiter stakes its claim of good fortune as the centerpiece of _The Planets,_ Saturn governs time and setting and staying within reasonable limits, Uranus gets its moment to shine with magic, and Neptune is associated with dreams and the unknown. Do your homework before you start posting jokes. I did mine when writing a creative piece on the planets and dwarf planets.
Classical music hits different. There are so many pieces that inspired so many pop culture movies/tv shows and many people don't even realize it. I'm going through a bit of a musical awakening atm.
You've landed on the classical suite that, yes, has been used, repurposed, transformed, diced up, and then spread everywhere without anyone bluntly telling you this is 'gustav holst'. I had the same thoughts when I discovered "Gustav Holst's; the planets" years ago. "Why do i, sort of, know all these songs already?" "How come no one mentions these when theyre used so liberally?" I'm glad I got to the source eventually because I really like them despite their ubiquity.
57 dislikes from 57 people who were expecting a guided tour of the surface of Mars by whoever this 'Gustav' chap is... Seriously, who could dislike this?!
78 now. And not only disliked something so sublime, but actually went to the trouble of "disliking" it. That is what baffles me. When I come across something I do not care for, I simply move along to something else... but perhaps I am just odd that way...
Me sorprende saber que esta música sirvió para los inicios del heavy metal. Aparte de que se escucha excelente. Hermoso lo que nos a aportado el pasado en todos los aspectos. No todo es hoy o mañana.
Hemos venido tres por lo mismo.. Yo pensaba que el origen aún era más antiguo.. Hablaban de música prohibida en la edad media, acordes prohibidos etc.. Pero claro.. Escuchas esto y vamos.. Acojonante
4:17 Everyone's talking about Star Wars and shit. Can we please talk about how Nintendo straight ripped this part out of Mars and made it Bowser's theme?
@@t33nyplaysp0p ua-cam.com/video/JvG082Zpmhw/v-deo.html Ignore the title of the video. That theme is used in a lot of Mario games for when Bowser attacks.
You sure about ripping? It's a classic already, and therefore free real estate. I mean, Mad Max Fury Road didn't rip Georges Bizet when included his song in the OST.
@@d.whillmar1740 I didn't mean "ripped" as in "ripped off" or any other malicious intent. I meant as in like they ripped a part of the sheet music and then taped it into their own sheet music. If the song was a midi file, they control+C'd it. Ripped it straight out of the code.
Well i got the chance to play this piece for my school band concert! but when there is like 15 of us its hard for us. it was cool though! i got to play Flute but part 2 so it we did with what we could!
technically, it was Geezer hearing King crimson's COVER of this, live, in 1969, that CHANGED Sabbath from a BLUES band (their first lp is ALL Cream rips, really, but great ones... OTHER than "Black Sabbath", which is the SONG that created the BAND. It was the light bulb moment, and they changed their name from Earth to Black Sabbath, and went DARK and sinister, ala "King crimson" (named for Satan!), and BS ditched their BLUES side mostly. KC is technically the founders of metal, i'd argue. (Songs like "Helter Skelter" are NOT metal. it's PUNK and noise rock, but metal isn't just distortion. It's certain kinds of grooves or feeling.)
Gustav Holst set the standard for Sci-Fi/Science Fantasy incredibly high way back in 1917. Oh man, this suite is incredibly powerful! It even inspired John Williams when he composed his first score for Star Wars: A New Hope. It just doesn't get any better than this. 😁😇❤️
This piece is like the ultimate Captcha test. If you play this to someone at full volume and they don't get shivers with their hairs sticking up on end, then clearly they aren't human.
I remember hearing parts of it during the intro of the UA-camr Heir of Carthage and how I desperately wanted to know what it was from. I found out, listened to this whole piece and thus my passion for classical music was awoken. It may no longer be my favorite composition, but it definitely has a special place in my heart.
My words are failing me, ear to brain connections are in ecstasy..... A true master showing us mystery, ancient history and leaves us with an unrequited want for more.
I find listening to the Holst Planet Suite tracks in a particular order changes the entire effect. I like to imagine the suite as follows: 1. Mercury: Childhood (Playing by the creek - Fun) 2. Venus: First Love (Romantic atmosphere by moonlight) 3. Mars: Young Adulthood and going to war (Conflict - Seeing things that can never be forgotten) 4. Jupiter: Adulthood (Glorious - Building a future and family) 5. Saturn: Old-Age (Creeping up - Making tasks harder, but ending with final contentment) 6. Uranus: Memories (Telling your grandchildren about the past but with a whimsical flurry) 7. Neptune: Dying (The final moments before departing with your loved ones around you) 8. (Optional) Ode to death: Transition to the afterlife It works like a life’s story, compressed into a single suite. Give it a try!
@@sapphoenixthefirebird5063 I’m not sure why Pluto is referred to by some as “the renewer,” but check out the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s recording of “Pluto: The Renewer.” It’s an astounding piece by British composer Colin Matthews that really fits the dwarf planet many of us wish was still a true planet.
@@plunger9165 Earth has no significance in astrology, which is what the suite was inspired by, for one. For another, he was overwhelmed by the popularity the suite brought him.
holy crap..... i heard this song a few years ago in the car in the parking lot of safeway, and i somehow remembered it, but not what it was. i told my mom about it and she recommends mars, and holy crap i found it. after four years. I AM TRIUMPHANT btw, i play clarinet so i enjoyed looking for a clarinet in here.
No need to be that picky. Back during my years of playing classical music, the musicians commonly referred to "songs" in everyday speech. Besides, if you can't come up with a better alternative than "music", it's like saying "that's not a Toyota, it's a car." Makes tons of sense, huh? Maybe it's not entirely on point, but Gustav Holst also wrote something called Second Suite in F, and the second movement of that piece is named "Song Without Words."
+Chotabear Relaxing is one of them unless you're a pansy. In the same way Apocalyptica is relaxing or Tool is relaxing, the harmonics in general overrule whatever ups and downs there are.
If I were SpaceX, I'd secretly install a really loud stereo system in my Mars Transfer ship, program them to play this piece and when Mars comes into view, turn them on and shock the HELL out of my colonists.
That's kind of impossible cuz sound needs a medium to travel and Mars has little to no atmosphere so no sound or barely any if/when we colonize and make an atmosphere there :/
@@isakhurtic9997 Yeah ... did you know it's easier to terraform Venus? Not only is it similar size to Earth, but there's liquid water in the depths of Venus apparently, according to some relatively recent data ... Musk is an idiot if he thinks he can terraform Mars ... terraforming Venus can also help us create solutions to climate change ... it's sad, the people in power are literally stupid ... I'm going to have to declare WWIII, for the sake of Deutschamerika ... we Germans are the majority in the US, just remember ... *Neo-Axis has joined the server ...* *Majority of Americans join Neo-Axis* *American majority research nano-tech, plasma guns, rail guns, Gauss guns, death-rays, ion cannons, quantum computing, power armor, and a bunch of other shiet* *America becomes Neo-Axis* *strategically, every single Zionist billionaire is cornered by men in palladium micro-alloy glass power armor with gyrate 3-d nano-batteries and quantum-analog-digital-computers ... these men are armed, with highly advanced portable ion beam uranium slug plasmatic incendiary cryogenic laser taser Tesla death-ray Gauss electromagnetic rail machine rifles with 3-d gyrate nano-batteries ...* *Jacob Rothschild and other Zionists surrender to the power of 'Murica* *Judaism is banned from the server because it is in direct violation of Amendment 13 of the US Constitution due to the 2880 slaves prophecy in the Talmudh* *UN has been banned from the server* *God has been banned from the server in accordance with laws regarding minors* *IV Reich is now the Admin ...* *IV Reich orders the terraforming of Venus* *IV Reich researches geomagnetic power and becomes a Kardashev I civilization ...* *IV Reich makes artificial worlds and artificial moons* *IV Reich makes successful Dyson Sphere around the Sun, becoming Kardashev II civilization* *IV Reich expands throughout the Galaxy, becomes Galactic Empire and a Kardashev III civilization* *IV Reich expands into Intergalactic Space, becoming a Kardashev IV civilization as they expand to control the entire observable universe within 50 short years* *IV Reich expands into hyperspace, humanity are gods now ...* *Humans end up peering into inferior alien civilizations, and try to be benevolent dictators ...* *Humanity is able to create entire universes now* t h a t ' s t h e p o w e r o f g e r m a n e n g i n e e r i n g
@@adamdesanti6713 Not necessarily unsettling; it's more that it makes the music sound inherently driven. Time signatures with more than 4 beats per measure are usually compound, meaning that each measure has a consistent rhythmic subdivision. In this piece, for example, the 5/4 rhythm is subdivided into a group of three followed by a group of two, which creates a secondary emphasis on the fourth beat (ONE-two-three-FOUR-five). When the number of beats per measure is odd, the subdivisions are necessarily of different sizes. Our brains tends to interpret the smaller subdivisions as "flowing into" the larger ones, which has implications for the rhythmic identity of the piece. Again using this piece as an example, the fourth and fifth beats of each measure are felt as a pickup to the first beat of the next measure, which imparts a strong sense of forward momentum and contributes to its militaristic feel.
Pensar que esto fue hecho a principios del siglo XX y fue la fuente de inspiración de grandes compositores de películas y hasta de videojuegos. Es como oír muchos sountracks juntos en una sola pieza, muy adelantado para su tiempo.
+Cookie Monster Well since Lucas used a lot of classical music (including Holst) as temp scores for A New Hope, it's not all that surprising Williams was inspired by them. I mean listen to this piece. It's really hard not to be :)
Wow, the power in this song complete with the defeatist attitude makes me feel the panic of being chased by some overwhelming force. What a wonderful medium music is, which you can express such complex emotion and have your audience feel it as well.
@theodoregross1738 It's so funny that you posted this. This song was the very first song I ever played in marching band practice. Because of the 5/4 time, I thought marching band was more challenging than I anticipated. It was so hard starting each movement on a different foot. Luckily, my freshman year was the only year we messed with anything but 4/4 time. Marching band was much easier when you always started on the same foot.😂
If I remember correctly, this is called Mars the bringer of war. Doesn't it just sound like war? I can just see column after column of armored warriors, spears gleaming in the sun or row after row of planes or Klingon warbirds. It beat star wars or star trek coming out in the 30's I think. It's amazing. The other pieces are great, too.
Mars was written in 1914, the year WWI broke out. So contemporary to it would have been trench warfare and the Maxim machinegun. Infantry would generally have been carrying bolt action rifles and fighting in trenches. It would be a few more years before the first use of armored mechanized vehicles (some prototypes would be fielded in the later years of WWI, but mostly experimental and far less terrifying than what would come in the 30's and 40's). Air power was mostly hot air balloons and blimps, only a few very primitive fighting aircraft (mostly fabric skinned bi- and triplanes) would fly, and also without much impact yet in the grander scheme of things. The really shocking part to me is that despite the bleak, almost apocalytpic feel of song's end, it would be another 20 years before any real scientific steps were taken to develop the atom bomb, and yet another decade before one would be successfully tested. And it's with that, that I'm just awe-stricken by the Holst's genius. It fits as well to a conceptualization of two men hacking at each other with fists and blades to the last dying breath as it does to the blitzkrieg of mechanized warfare and to the immolation of the entire planet in the unholy flames of nuclear chain reaction.
People here act as if Williams stole this music, not realizing that: 1. Lucas specifically asked for a space opera, and before Williams finished his compositions they used these songs as place holders. The editing of the film was largely built around these songs. 2. Williams has a similar sound to these songs, but to call it copying misses the point. There isn’t a single piece of music from the last 50 years that doesn’t take inspiration, and JW actually changed things around enough for them to be their own unique works.
+WilfredIvanhoe and Stravinsky. There are parts of rite of spring right in new hope. Especially when the droids are wandering on tatooine in the beginning
Actually, the composer of the Gladiator music got sued because of the strong similarities. (web.archive.org/web/20071230030535/www.musicfromthemovies.com/article.asp?ID=695)
@Epic Oh fellow clarinet, just wait till you reach jupiter... It opens with staccato 16th notes at ~76 BPM in cut time. (I also can't articulate quickly; I feel you.)
It's not unusual for composers to be asked to write an imitation of the style/sound of an already existing piece of music for certain scenes. We had to do the same when doing a film score in a composition class. However, classical composers have been doing this sort of thing before film ever existed in the forms of fantasias, transformations, variations, etc.
John Williams has come out and stated that Gustav Holst was one of his favorites. He based much of his pieces off the Planet Suite as a whole. Some of the fun pieces to point out would be this one and Jupiter. Fun to listen to and play.
My man Gustav Holst basically composed Star Wars 60 years before it came out. He was definitely ahead of his time. :)
Nerd Soup I came to this video because of you btw. Not heard these in years then your reviews used them and I'm here.
Great videos btw, I had a similar idea and I copped out because i didn't have the balls you have.
Holst Over Williams Definitely.... Way ahead of his time!!!!
no, just John Williams stole from him
Alex Davis Not really John Williams fault, he was instructed by George Lucas to make music that sounded similar to that of Holsts planets. This happens all the time to composers who compose for film, they don't really get a say in the matter. Trust me, if they had the choice they would do something else.
My weekly guitar weeps
Fun fact! When they were making star wars in the 70’s they used this song to back a lot of their scenes when they were still putting it together. And Lucas liked it so much that he basically asked Williams to score a soundalike so that they could use it in their movie. That’s why it sounds so similar
That's so interesting!! It sounds so much like star wars, just a couple notes off. Where did you hear that?
@@Frank-jr1ly i heard it from here ua-cam.com/video/iqCx07wv1Pk/v-deo.html
Kind of makes you wonder why he didn't pay a couple bucks (40yrs ago was cheap to do) for the this?
To be fair, this song does fit Star Wars a lot. What is heard in the song basically speaks for itself.
@@jamie49868 Because Holst was already dead then and the music was good, but still net perfectly fitting.
The Force is strong with Gustav Holst
Hmmm I sense that the force is strong with this one
I feel the inspiration for John Williams
Don't you mean Star Trek VI and Cliff Eidelman?
Holst: The force? The heck is that?!
Actually Gustav Holst inspired The Force … so maybe Holst IS The Force
I've listened to this hundreds of times but the sudden crescendo at 1:21 still sends chills down my spine
When I hear that, I can imagine the Perseverance rover streaking through Mars’s atmosphere enclosed in the Mars 2020 shell in a fireball.
Ditto.
youd like star wars
@@The315OCRP Star Wars is a lame copy
WAT i know!! it's amazing and way over the top
"Where's my Oscar for Best Film Score, dammit?"
- Gustav Holst after he sees Star Wars: A New Hope
"I've got a bad feeling about this"
- John Williams when he sees Star Wars fans checking UA-cam videos of The Planets
@@Milordvega lol. Accurate representation
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-Imperial March
-Death mountain
-Bowser’s theme
are all based of this...
I came to listen to this after a comment on bowser jr's airship armada from galaxy, i never realized...
Umut K imperial march - Prokofiev’s dance of the knights
Ron Jones' 'The Best of Both Worlds' cliffhanger-"Mr. Worf, Fire!"
Theyre very similar but some of the notes are spot on with the jedi temple march.
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I was watching Venture Bros. and 21 started singing this hehe
Make this the official anthem of Mars when we have colonies there
Good luck trying to get the Martians to agree to anything, mudstomper.
@@Manintoga is that a muffuggin expanse reference?
If war is declared this must be blasting on a loudspeaker 24/7.
Mars is gonna 1776 your ass to this music
MCRN for life. F the earthers, f the belters.
Wow, composed in 1914, this music is like 70 years ahead of it's time.
Considering Mars is the god of war id say 1914 was perfectly timed for this composition given what was about to unfold across the world.
@@S1NG15 *europe
@@duckyboi2297 Also North America, Africa and Asia (Ottoman Empire, European Colonies, later USA). Only really neutral continent during WW1 was South America.
@@eh1600 ehh no. Japanese conquests in asia were nothing. North americ had no fighting only the US and canada delpoyed their troops in europe. Africa had a bit of fighting and the middle east had a bit aswell. The biggest and important battles were in europe.
@@eh1600south America had European colonies by the time
Whatever Gustav was on, I want some of that.
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Agreed
WWII, that's what he was on lol
Oh, in 1914? Hmm.. . probably just a Martini and few balloons of nitrous oxide.
@@travis5125 shitload of cocaine too
LMAO
6:36 when you find a synth keyboard and find one sound effect you really like
Wait, where?
The most underrated comment ever
Only very few things I read online actually make me laugh out loud like this did
XD
And que the death star blowing up
Musicians claim that MARS is a very difficult piece to perform. Well done to all of them. It was brilliant
Certainly because this piece is written in 5/4 and we're used to listen and play in 4/4.
My school band is playing this as our challenge piece this year and the main motif of the song (see the rhythm section at the beginning) is dreadful. Like there’s chromatic triplet scale runs in wind, the horrible motif in low brass, these crazy dissonance parts everywhere.
I would NOT want to be my band teacher right about now, it sounds like fresh ass 👎
TATAKA TAH TAH TATAH TAH,
TATAKA TAH TAH TATAH TAH!!!
As a lad at school i played a comb and paper...that shiny izal toilet paper sadly. Im not a musician sadly, but i DO love to listen to gifted musicians. God bless you all. xx
im only 3 months into my orchestra and I'm being forced to play this :(
People: We need classical music that sounds badass.
Holst: Hold my beer.
Holst my beer
get some of Wagners "Sigfrieds Funeral March" in your ears.....
I recommend Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. UA-cam has a "best version" one that will blow you away.
I know, right?! This is my absolute favorite work of the 20th century. 😁
Tchaikovsky: Hold my cannons
Composed in 1914 and it sounds no different than modern orchestral movie music. Times really don’t change as much as we like to think they do.
Culture is built on what came before.
imo sounds better lol
That's because this piece was WAY ahead of its time.
@@plebisMaximus If what came before isn't destroyed first.
@@WinAmosProd maybe that's the reason he named it mars? Cuz the planet is named after the Roman god of war.
John Williams: "Hey, can I copy your homework?"
Holst: "Yea sure, just change it a bit so it doesn't look like you copied mine"
John Williams:
*star wars songs*
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Don't Forget Hans Zimmer, he took a lot of this piece in the Opening battle of "Gladiator"
Basically - yeah
It's not his fault; he just misunderstood what George Lucas meant by 'space opera'.
This piece is so far ahead of its time.
I always use the sound at 4:16 to test out any new headphones I buy. Volume all the way up, of course; I don't want to just hear it - I want to FEEL it.
I do not mind the warnings of the possibility of deafness, I want to melt my being with this music.
When girls ask me what music I like, I'm able to put this with speakers, and I don't care if they leave, this is more beautiful than anything they can give
Had to pull out mine and do it just to see what it was like. Other worldly.
@@palomo9385 TRU
This was a breakdown before breakdowns, can't help but headbang
@@palomo9385 You can also try this with Shostakovitch, listen to some of his works, you'll be obliterated, the 8th string quartet is a suicide note
1914 to 1916? this guy was way ahead of his time.
I think it's more the case that there's nothing original anymore. You should check out Henry Purcell. His 'Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary', better known as the Clockwork Orange theme, has been so much covered in electronic music and by club DJ's that you'd hardly believe it was written in 1695.
Stuart M. there are still original things. its just hard. its always hard to be original.
Stuart M. hmm Holst's work is great but to think originality ended in 1916 is a bit of an overreach. I can think of at least 3 movements in Jazz that came about post 1916 (swing, bebop and free) which cast doubt on that assertion, I won't even go into funk, soul or rock and roll. And then there's other regions such as Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa which all had innovative movements in music. Holst's is great but that statement is an oversimplification at least.
davidevgen Hardly mate.
Scriabin, Stravinsky, Ravel, Debussy, Bartok and Schönberg had already released way more daring pieces and were already popular at the time.
+Stuart M. Um, Yann Tiersen, John Williams, Jack Johnson, Phillip Glass, Passenger, the Beatles, Caravan Palace, and Joe Hisaishi would like an apology now.
Everyone is talking about John Williams and Star Wars when it comes to Holst's Mars. If John Williams was inspired by it, Hans Zimmer just changed a few notes and slapped Gladiator on it.
Strength and honor.
ROMA VICTOR!
Word
😂
Rather, just a change in tempo
Meanwhile, I'm here because of the Super Mario Bros. Airship theme.
6:45 “great shot kid, that was one in a million!”
Several Star Wars themes came out of this piece:
The section at 1:22 sounds very similar to the Rebel Fanfare.
The drawn out section at 6:35 is very similar to the music that plays just before the Death Star blows up. A similar piece of music is also used in the opening during the shot of the Star Destroyer pursuing the Tantive IV. I think John Williams actually said that Lucas asked him to make the music sound like that when he was scoring the movie. I'm guessing that Holst's music was probably used in the rough cut of the movie as a placeholder before the score was finished.
Some say that this piece sounds similar to The Imperial March, but I've also heard that about Chopin's funeral march. I can't pinpoint any particular moments that stand out, but it's definitely possible.
2:14 that French horn gives off tatoine vibes
In addition to Star Wars, battlerock Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy has a clear reference to it.
I think it’s pretty much just become tradition for every space-themed media to include this motif in some way.
The Ostinato sounds similar to the Imperal March
The part at 6:36 is also been ripped off in Aliens when they escape from the nuclear explosion at the end
Y que me decís del 4:18? Yo veo al Imperio marchando y abordando las naves
4:20 I freaking loved playing this part in my orchestra group
NO FUCKING CAP. MASSIVE FUK
Same
Oh yes FORTISEISSMO!!!!
Am I evil. Yes I am.
Me 2
Pay close attention to Gustav Holst's 'The Planets' and you'll hear the inspiration for John Williams' musical score for the Star Wars saga, Jerry Goldsmith's musical score for Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Alien, and James Horner's musical score for Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan and Aliens. Gustav Holst invented the musical score for the modern science fiction-space epic.
Not to mention the opening riff to Diamond Head's Am I Evil and riffs found in several songs by Black Sabbath, especially the title song.
And also Hans Zimmer's score for Gladiator
Kent Tang Yep! Hans Zimmer was also influenced by Holst. I only omitted him because Gladiator wasn't a space epic. It would be great if Zimmer did one of those, though.
Not to mention his influence on many prog bands such as King Crimson.
And, in addition to all that, the Airship theme from SMB3, and most likely all the Galaxy themes as well.
That crescendo into absolute musical delicacy at 4:12 is delicious.
Absolutely agreed. Everyone talks about the crescendo itself but never what it takes to get there and how absolutely great that build up is.
Exactly
This piece set the tone for the majority of sci-fi for the foreseeable future
The beginning: Imperial March
Most of the song: Legend of Zelda boss music
The end: Lion King Mufasa death scene
The original heavy metal.
Best comment.
Brian Thomson Thanks to classical music as the origin, hasten to add!
Your message made me wanna get creative and make this...
Mercury - Industrial Metal
Venus - Avant-Garde Metal
Earth - Drone Metal
Mars - Thrash Metal
Jupiter - Death Metal
Saturn - Doom Metal
Uranus - Atmospheric Black Metal
Neptune - Heavy Metal
Pluto - Black Metal
The asteroid belt can be something like Grindcore and Eris can be a mix of Post and Sludge.
NeroAngelo616
Maybe Pluto could be the Not-really-metal Metal too.
The origins of Am I Evil by Diamond Head.
For 1914 this is unprecedented. These same musical motifs and chord progressions are still being used to this day.
So true. So ahead of it's time. Along with pieces composed by Mahler, Bruckner, and Shostakovich around that same time.
If it ain't broke ;)
@@handsomeX only ahead of its time because of john williams and george lucas without them this would be considred behind the times
This gentleman composed a fine work of art.
*HOLST!!!*
This is one of the best performances/recordings of the piece I've ever heard.
I agree
This is my ultimate favorite recording "Mars," but the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra made their recording of the whole suite my favorite.
6:35 "You may fire when ready..." *Alderaan explodes*
:-)
Not sure why, but that made me laugh until my stomach hurt. Holy crap. You're awesome.
More like...
6:49 "Stand by................ stand by........."
6:55 *Death Star Explodes*
That's no moon, it's a... mars?
If anyone plays Destiny then 4:20 to 4:55 sounds very much like one of the pieces of music for the cabal.
One of the most iconic pieces of music ever composed.
How can something still sound good after literally 100 years this is truly a masterpiece
Because men still fight wars 😢
I hate this comment so much. Why would something not be any bit good as it was 100 years ago???
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmarhuman evolving backwards?
@@bait5257 human refusing to care about the foundation that built them to where they neglect what they could have been today.
Are you so stupid that you think music gets worse with time? That makes absolutely no sense. Were you born this stupid or did your parents drop you on your head?
All wings report in...
Red 12 standing by
Red 7 standing by
Red 5 standing by
Red Planet standing by
Red October standing by
red baron standing by
Red faction standing by
RED Scout standing by
Big Red standing by
5:17 Gladiator
6:37 Destruction of the Death Star
0:10 Black Sabbath's Black Sabbath
4:20 dota2 mars ultimate
6:37 The Quick and the dead just before the Kid's first shot :-)
Oh my god I love this!
4:18 Diablo 2 Soundtrack - Siege
21 and 24 were the best duo especially when they sang this song
Yes, I was thinking the same
VENTURE!!?!!
Quick, to the egg sack!
Not only an inspiration for Star Wars score, but also inspired early heavy metal. The original Black Sabbath riff was Tony Iommi playing Mars on guitar with some alterations
4:17
Washing the dishes was never this epic! *+cleans away the teflon from a frying pan+*
Omg ikr
Why would you "clean away" your non-stick coating? That's a little silly...
legit LOL
SD501st me i was on the toilet and thought: well that feel like a EPIC moment...
Silly title pop into my mind: "revenge of the shit"
"Hemorrhoid strike back"
"The last poop"
To name a few...
😂😂😂
Samuel J. Rivard What ? x)
I got to hear this played by a symphony. Awesome!!
It's amazing how this composer created music for each of the planets and nailing each one like he knew them personally, like he had visited them. What inspiration he had!
Technically he wrote them for the Roman gods (hence venus was happy go lucky despite the fact it's the most hostile to us) , so he probably studied mythology a lot
@@yoda2495 That's exactly it, Rachel here is thinking with the greek/roman idea of the gods that Holst used
My guess is that Earth had not been discovered when Holst composed The Planets..
Orchestra*
You’ve got it all wrong. Holst and a group of artists vacationed in Majorca, Spain, in the summer of 1913, where Holst read a book on horoscopes one of them brought. He used what he learned to create the suite. All seven movements’ names are named after the planets’ *astrological* qualities. Mars is all about action, Venus focuses on inner peace, Mercury holds court over communication, Jupiter stakes its claim of good fortune as the centerpiece of _The Planets,_ Saturn governs time and setting and staying within reasonable limits, Uranus gets its moment to shine with magic, and Neptune is associated with dreams and the unknown. Do your homework before you start posting jokes. I did mine when writing a creative piece on the planets and dwarf planets.
Good job Valve using this for the ultimate of Mars.
holtaf ikr, it fits right in
I love that he sings this after using it too.
i came here from a dota video, i had to confirm it was indeed this song, i can return to the dota video later
It’s fucking badass! I love valves decisions sometimes
Wish it changed the soundtrack of the game for about a min after using the ultimate as well to Mars, The Bringer of War.
I love how the dota2 hero Mars uses this song as his theme song, humming it and chanting it to himself, and his ultimate plays it for 5 seconds.
Classical music hits different. There are so many pieces that inspired so many pop culture movies/tv shows and many people don't even realize it. I'm going through a bit of a musical awakening atm.
You've landed on the classical suite that, yes, has been used, repurposed, transformed, diced up, and then spread everywhere without anyone bluntly telling you this is 'gustav holst'.
I had the same thoughts when I discovered "Gustav Holst's; the planets" years ago.
"Why do i, sort of, know all these songs already?" "How come no one mentions these when theyre used so
liberally?"
I'm glad I got to the source eventually because I really like them despite their ubiquity.
It's not every morning that I listen to mars in my garden, but when I do, so does my whole street.... Best 500 bucks spent on enormous speakers ever
I've owned the following in chronological order: 1989 _SAAB 900,_ 1991 _SAAB 900 turbo,_ and 1992 _SAAB 900s._
You planting moon dust?
@@travis5125 - no one cares. Really. I'm sat here not giving a shit. So is everyone else.
@@markfox1545 I'm taking a shit
Yeeeeeessssss!
57 dislikes from 57 people who were expecting a guided tour of the surface of Mars by whoever this 'Gustav' chap is...
Seriously, who could dislike this?!
60 Martians who think Holst has their anthem wrong.
'Whoever this gustav chap is?, GUSTAV HOLST IS A FAMEOUS MUSISCIAN AND IS VERY WELL KNOWN
Buddertime Now: Ethan was mocking people who disliked this. He was not actually wondering who Gustav Holst is.
78 now. And not only disliked something so sublime, but actually went to the trouble of "disliking" it. That is what baffles me. When I come across something I do not care for, I simply move along to something else... but perhaps I am just odd that way...
+Ethan Knightley Well now it’s 347.
Me sorprende saber que esta música sirvió para los inicios del heavy metal. Aparte de que se escucha excelente. Hermoso lo que nos a aportado el pasado en todos los aspectos. No todo es hoy o mañana.
Lo decis por LAHUELLAGUITAR?
@@JqnVld exacto
Hemos venido tres por lo mismo.. Yo pensaba que el origen aún era más antiguo.. Hablaban de música prohibida en la edad media, acordes prohibidos etc.. Pero claro.. Escuchas esto y vamos.. Acojonante
@@jorgedeltiempo los "pasos prohibidos" a eso te referis jaj
Otro más que viene por LAHUELLAGUITAR por aquí
4:17 Everyone's talking about Star Wars and shit. Can we please talk about how Nintendo straight ripped this part out of Mars and made it Bowser's theme?
YE but lets be real it fits him so well
They arent even close
@@t33nyplaysp0p ua-cam.com/video/JvG082Zpmhw/v-deo.html
Ignore the title of the video. That theme is used in a lot of Mario games for when Bowser attacks.
You sure about ripping? It's a classic already, and therefore free real estate. I mean, Mad Max Fury Road didn't rip Georges Bizet when included his song in the OST.
@@d.whillmar1740 I didn't mean "ripped" as in "ripped off" or any other malicious intent. I meant as in like they ripped a part of the sheet music and then taped it into their own sheet music. If the song was a midi file, they control+C'd it. Ripped it straight out of the code.
This is truly ahead of its time. That, or so many score composers have been inspired by it. I hear so much John Williams.
+MardukFilms 4:22 ...... all I can say is OMG! I cannot believe how close it is to star wars!
+MardukFilms Listen to the opening battle sequence from Gladiator, this piece is so similar as to suspect one of plagiarism.
Megalomaniacalculatorture! ok
When he said “DUDUDUDUNDUNDUNDUNDUNDUDUDUDUNDYNDYNDUNDUN” I felt that 😔😔😳
Man you're so clever that you randomly just copied the top comment you true source of inspiration
Thanks, Sigmund Freud
@@PeriapsisStudios2000 you don't have to project your fetishes on other
@@maggoteater2290 no that's what Freud said every man secretly looks for a woman that's like his ma
@@joen2899 I heard of that. Then go for it but I have say no thanks to this
Amazing how this sounds like it came from a modern film. Holst was truly ahead of his time. You can see Independence Day took many cues from this.
String section: trombones are just backup for the trumpets
Trombones: 4:22
Pretty much
2:11
@@417Owsy That's actually a French Horn...
Alexator0507 nope, euphonium
Freshmen:
Five four!?!?!?!?! That's a key signature???
(Just so you know 5/4 is a time signature not a key signature, It's part of the joke)
The mother of all Metal music... oh that tritone diminished 5th! it appears at the very beginning but the goosebumps at 4:22...
Then there's been a lot of consanguinity since the beginning...
the best out of the planets. in my opinion.
+Lucy Brady This and jupiter for me.
Nah it's Uranus
Same
totally agree :)
Well i got the chance to play this piece for my school band concert! but when there is like 15 of us its hard for us. it was cool though! i got to play Flute but part 2 so it we did with what we could!
I like the part where it goes "DUDUDUDUN DUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUDUN DUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUDUN DUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUDUN DUN DUDUDUN"
What?😂😂
Me 2!! :D
when you say it, its, DIGADADA DA DADADA DIGADADA DA DADADA
4:15 ?
@@soloriocesar8573 YES~n
This sends chills Down my spine in the best ways possible
Ladies and gentlemen, The Planets by Gustav Holst. Otherwise known as every modern day soundtrack.
most people that are listening to this probably don't give a shit, but this song was the inspiration for Black Sabbath's eponymous debut song
That is interesting
It's a piece.
technically, it was Geezer hearing King crimson's COVER of this, live, in 1969, that CHANGED Sabbath from a BLUES band (their first lp is ALL Cream rips, really, but great ones... OTHER than "Black Sabbath", which is the SONG that created the BAND. It was the light bulb moment, and they changed their name from Earth to Black Sabbath, and went DARK and sinister, ala "King crimson" (named for Satan!), and BS ditched their BLUES side mostly. KC is technically the founders of metal, i'd argue. (Songs like "Helter Skelter" are NOT metal. it's PUNK and noise rock, but metal isn't just distortion. It's certain kinds of grooves or feeling.)
I'm reading the book about it.
Diamond Head and Symphony X directly used part of this for Am I Evil? and Divine Wings Of Tragedy.
Gustav Holst set the standard for Sci-Fi/Science Fantasy incredibly high way back in 1917. Oh man, this suite is incredibly powerful! It even inspired John Williams when he composed his first score for Star Wars: A New Hope. It just doesn't get any better than this. 😁😇❤️
1917!
Sounds more like ripoff
I have not seen anybody talk about this part but 2:44 gives me chills
This piece is like the ultimate Captcha test. If you play this to someone at full volume and they don't get shivers with their hairs sticking up on end, then clearly they aren't human.
People who are deaf: 😐
@@phipschi4255most deaf people can still feel sound vibrations so the captcha still works!
So I’m a robot? Who knew?
2:11 sick beat drop
IMPOSTER
UNLIMITED POWER!!!
Emperor Palpatine Hello senator
Emperor Palpatine
Im wondering why you here.
It's treason, then
Star Wars, Star Trek(2009), Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean, Road Warrior- I hear all of them in this.
Que de références...
Venture Bros.
Chojin Sentai Jetman and Denji Sentai Megaranger
Especially gladiator
Yes, but who inspired Gustav Holst.
This piece of music is amazing. Get goosebumps every time I listen to it
I remember hearing parts of it during the intro of the UA-camr Heir of Carthage and how I desperately wanted to know what it was from. I found out, listened to this whole piece and thus my passion for classical music was awoken. It may no longer be my favorite composition, but it definitely has a special place in my heart.
This is what Darth Vader listens when he travels in Death Star towards the rebel planet.
Jovan Mitrić No, More like when he is taking a walk in the park and strangling birds ;p
LOL
with I-buds in his ears
It what I listen to when I go to Lidl...:P
this is vader's alternate theme
4:16
DADADADA!!!!... DA!!!!... DA DA DA!!!!... DADADADA!!!!... DA!!!!... DA DA DA!!!!...
FlyingPiper13 DAAAAAA DA DA DAAAAAAAA
Dadada da dadada!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
NO-NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
NO-NOOOOO-NO-NOOOOO!
NO-NOOOOO-NO-NOOOOO!
NOOO
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
My words are failing me, ear to brain connections are in ecstasy..... A true master showing us mystery, ancient history and leaves us with an unrequited want for more.
6:34
Riker: Mr. Worf, fire!
TO BE CONTINUED...
Underrated comment
_Best of Both Worlds, Part 1_ ?
@@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns winner.
I find listening to the Holst Planet Suite tracks in a particular order changes the entire effect.
I like to imagine the suite as follows:
1. Mercury: Childhood (Playing by the creek - Fun)
2. Venus: First Love (Romantic atmosphere by moonlight)
3. Mars: Young Adulthood and going to war (Conflict - Seeing things that can never be forgotten)
4. Jupiter: Adulthood (Glorious - Building a future and family)
5. Saturn: Old-Age (Creeping up - Making tasks harder, but ending with final contentment)
6. Uranus: Memories (Telling your grandchildren about the past but with a whimsical flurry)
7. Neptune: Dying (The final moments before departing with your loved ones around you)
8. (Optional) Ode to death: Transition to the afterlife
It works like a life’s story, compressed into a single suite. Give it a try!
Fun fact: if you google sounds from space saturn you will get very interesting results
Ode to death = Pluto
@@sapphoenixthefirebird5063 I’m not sure why Pluto is referred to by some as “the renewer,” but check out the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s recording of “Pluto: The Renewer.” It’s an astounding piece by British composer Colin Matthews that really fits the dwarf planet many of us wish was still a true planet.
I never realised that Holst never made an earth. Does anyone know why?
@@plunger9165 Earth has no significance in astrology, which is what the suite was inspired by, for one. For another, he was overwhelmed by the popularity the suite brought him.
holy crap..... i heard this song a few years ago in the car in the parking lot of safeway, and i somehow remembered it, but not what it was. i told my mom about it and she recommends mars, and holy crap i found it. after four years. I AM TRIUMPHANT btw, i play clarinet so i enjoyed looking for a clarinet in here.
i play clarinet & piano
roses are red. violets are blue. there's always an asian better than you XD
It's not a 'song', songs have words. It's music.
Matt Male i stand corrected.
No need to be that picky. Back during my years of playing classical music, the musicians commonly referred to "songs" in everyday speech. Besides, if you can't come up with a better alternative than "music", it's like saying "that's not a Toyota, it's a car." Makes tons of sense, huh?
Maybe it's not entirely on point, but Gustav Holst also wrote something called Second Suite in F, and the second movement of that piece is named "Song Without Words."
El gran tecladista Don Airey ha incorporado esta gran influencia en Rainbow, Ozzy y Deep Purple aquí muy asiduamente en sus solos en vivo.
heavy classical
great relaxing music
+LOREK cox :D
+LOREK cox :D Many awesome adjectives to describe this fantastic masterpiece but relaxing isn't one of them !!!
+Chotabear Relaxing is one of them unless you're a pansy. In the same way Apocalyptica is relaxing or Tool is relaxing, the harmonics in general overrule whatever ups and downs there are.
4:16 When you sneeze and someone says "bless you" but your home alone
Also 6:34 could be used for the same scenario
If I were SpaceX, I'd secretly install a really loud stereo system in my Mars Transfer ship, program them to play this piece and when Mars comes into view, turn them on and shock the HELL out of my colonists.
You, i like your humor.
Yup.
That's kind of impossible cuz sound needs a medium to travel and Mars has little to no atmosphere so no sound or barely any if/when we colonize and make an atmosphere there :/
Isak Hurtic I think what he means is that there would be a really loud stereo INSIDE the spaceship, not directly outside.
@@isakhurtic9997 Yeah ... did you know it's easier to terraform Venus? Not only is it similar size to Earth, but there's liquid water in the depths of Venus apparently, according to some relatively recent data ... Musk is an idiot if he thinks he can terraform Mars ... terraforming Venus can also help us create solutions to climate change ... it's sad, the people in power are literally stupid ... I'm going to have to declare WWIII, for the sake of Deutschamerika ... we Germans are the majority in the US, just remember ...
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t h a t ' s t h e p o w e r o f g e r m a n e n g i n e e r i n g
El creador de la musica espacial!!! Ya sabemos en que se inspiro Jhon Williams para componer Star Wars. Esto es increible!!!
Eso mismo iba a decir. se oye como tipo Guerra de las Galaxias (Star Wars)
6:34 “You’re all clear, kid. Now let’s blow this thing and go home.”
lol
Thank god I found this, this was one of my favorite classical songs on Fallout 4's classical radio.
Never ever never get enough of this mind blowing composer and Mars is the best.
Il canto del lupo è dolce per tutti coloro che conoscono le parole. Ogni essere terreno che ammira la bellezza del lupo avrà grandezza nella sua vita.
All rise for Mars's anthem 🖖🏽
🖖
Absolutely out of this world, what a fantastic piece of music
*_IF I WERE A UFC FIGHTER, THIS WOULD BE MY ENTRANCE THEME._*
They must be trying so freaking hard to be you
4:06-5:20
@@jarinoxborrow6151 *_EXACTLY._*
@IPA SOLÉ *_STOP MERGING BEER WITH THE SUN._*
Rip big rich
A bright spot of my childhood.
First heard this song on Space: 1999 as a kid, it always stuck with me. I'm glad I finally know where it came from. A beautiful piece of music.
I love the fact that Hoslt’s music is so great, that many famous movies and games use his music
Our music theory TA showed this to us as an example of 5/4 time signature. Some good stuff right here!
My favourite 5/4 signature has to be Dave Brubecks take five
@@durra4203 Yesssssss that one's a banger!
Does the 5/4 make it seem inherently unsettling?
@@adamdesanti6713 Not necessarily unsettling; it's more that it makes the music sound inherently driven. Time signatures with more than 4 beats per measure are usually compound, meaning that each measure has a consistent rhythmic subdivision. In this piece, for example, the 5/4 rhythm is subdivided into a group of three followed by a group of two, which creates a secondary emphasis on the fourth beat (ONE-two-three-FOUR-five). When the number of beats per measure is odd, the subdivisions are necessarily of different sizes. Our brains tends to interpret the smaller subdivisions as "flowing into" the larger ones, which has implications for the rhythmic identity of the piece. Again using this piece as an example, the fourth and fifth beats of each measure are felt as a pickup to the first beat of the next measure, which imparts a strong sense of forward momentum and contributes to its militaristic feel.
Pensar que esto fue hecho a principios del siglo XX y fue la fuente de inspiración de grandes compositores de películas y hasta de videojuegos.
Es como oír muchos sountracks juntos en una sola pieza, muy adelantado para su tiempo.
"I have a bad feeling about this ..."
"Chewie - lock in the reverse thrusters .."
"CHEWIE! - lock in the reverse thrusters .."
[woof!]
+Mai Nem Isn't it auxiliary power?
no offense but the composer for the star wars songs copied this,😈
+Cookie Monster Well since Lucas used a lot of classical music (including Holst) as temp scores for A New Hope, it's not all that surprising Williams was inspired by them. I mean listen to this piece. It's really hard not to be :)
+Oh_Shenanigans true, but I still belive Mars is better than A new hope
+Alex Naveira Is. The Falcon doesnt have reverse thrust.
4:22 when your stepdad comes home reeking of alchohol
All I can say is oh noes.
And he takes off his metal belt
And he catches you playing wow at 2 am ..
oof
lol good one
Wow, the power in this song complete with the defeatist attitude makes me feel the panic of being chased by some overwhelming force. What a wonderful medium music is, which you can express such complex emotion and have your audience feel it as well.
The grandfather of heavy metal.
xupaloh
that's black sabbath
@@andrewleblanc2449 No, that's the father.
The Godfather of heavy metal would be Beethoven.
Wait. Vivaldi was there way before...
The best finale to any piece of music that i know of
This was the very first song I ever learned for marching band. It always takes me back when I hear it. Band geeks of the world unite!✊🏻🎷😂
We did it my junior year. Marching in 5/4 time, having to hit the yard lines on opposite feet every 5 yards, took some getting used to.
@theodoregross1738 It's so funny that you posted this. This song was the very first song I ever played in marching band practice. Because of the 5/4 time, I thought marching band was more challenging than I anticipated. It was so hard starting each movement on a different foot. Luckily, my freshman year was the only year we messed with anything but 4/4 time. Marching band was much easier when you always started on the same foot.😂
If I remember correctly, this is called Mars the bringer of war. Doesn't it just sound like war? I can just see column after column of armored warriors, spears gleaming in the sun or row after row of planes or Klingon warbirds. It beat star wars or star trek coming out in the 30's I think. It's amazing. The other pieces are great, too.
I think this inspired the Klingon battle anthem in Star Trek. This piece inspired a ton of stuff.
It was also written in 1916, during WWI. Of course he did't lack inspiration
Well Mars is the name of the god of war in Roman mythology
Mars was written in 1914, the year WWI broke out. So contemporary to it would have been trench warfare and the Maxim machinegun. Infantry would generally have been carrying bolt action rifles and fighting in trenches. It would be a few more years before the first use of armored mechanized vehicles (some prototypes would be fielded in the later years of WWI, but mostly experimental and far less terrifying than what would come in the 30's and 40's). Air power was mostly hot air balloons and blimps, only a few very primitive fighting aircraft (mostly fabric skinned bi- and triplanes) would fly, and also without much impact yet in the grander scheme of things. The really shocking part to me is that despite the bleak, almost apocalytpic feel of song's end, it would be another 20 years before any real scientific steps were taken to develop the atom bomb, and yet another decade before one would be successfully tested. And it's with that, that I'm just awe-stricken by the Holst's genius. It fits as well to a conceptualization of two men hacking at each other with fists and blades to the last dying breath as it does to the blitzkrieg of mechanized warfare and to the immolation of the entire planet in the unholy flames of nuclear chain reaction.
The sweeping and rousing score. Simply perfect.
This song is definitely a masterpiece
People here act as if Williams stole this music, not realizing that:
1. Lucas specifically asked for a space opera, and before Williams finished his compositions they used these songs as place holders. The editing of the film was largely built around these songs.
2. Williams has a similar sound to these songs, but to call it copying misses the point. There isn’t a single piece of music from the last 50 years that doesn’t take inspiration, and JW actually changed things around enough for them to be their own unique works.
Dude they were making a joke
Composers do it all the time 😂
It is called Evolution of music
The very beginning of this is definitely used in the beginning of starwars VII during the attack on Jakku Village
+Anthony G (IPhoneFTW) There's more a similarity with the opening of Gladiator.
+Anthony G (IPhoneFTW) It was, along with Richard Wagner's musical style, the inspiration for the ORIGINAL Star Wars movie score.
+WilfredIvanhoe and Stravinsky. There are parts of rite of spring right in new hope. Especially when the droids are wandering on tatooine in the beginning
Actually, the composer of the Gladiator music got sued because of the strong similarities. (web.archive.org/web/20071230030535/www.musicfromthemovies.com/article.asp?ID=695)
My High School Marching Band played this portion during a state competition and because of it. 22 yrs ago. I will never forget.
This is why I'm in band
This is why boyinaband is in a band
William Teng lol
The Book Fox I played this as a trombone. There's nothing better than playing so loud that the row in front almost cannot hear themselves.
this is why im in MARCHING band
@Epic Oh fellow clarinet, just wait till you reach jupiter... It opens with staccato 16th notes at ~76 BPM in cut time. (I also can't articulate quickly; I feel you.)
6:30 the most malevolent piece of music ever created.... like being stabbed with a two-handed sword.
Or your own sword, by thanos
it's actually quoting Mahler's 2nd symphony
So, basically, John Williams just did a remix?
Yep,
@@wyattwilliams2457 well, still one of my fav soundtracks...
He makes it no secret how big of an inspiration Holst was on his work. You ever heard Battleship Destroyed?
It's not unusual for composers to be asked to write an imitation of the style/sound of an already existing piece of music for certain scenes. We had to do the same when doing a film score in a composition class. However, classical composers have been doing this sort of thing before film ever existed in the forms of fantasias, transformations, variations, etc.
John Williams has come out and stated that Gustav Holst was one of his favorites. He based much of his pieces off the Planet Suite as a whole. Some of the fun pieces to point out would be this one and Jupiter. Fun to listen to and play.
The ending of this song just brings it all in. So much wrath and power in the delivery.