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'''''A Moorside Suite''''' (H.173) is a work for [[British brass band|brass band]] by the English composer [[Gustav Holst]]. It was commissioned by the [[BBC]] and the National Brass Band Festival Committee in 1927 for the final of the 1928 [[National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain]] at [[The Crystal Palace|Crystal Palace]].<ref name=allen>{{cite journal|last=Allen| first=Stephen Arthur |title=Symphony Within: Rehearing Holst's A Moorside Suite|journal=Musical Times|volume=158 |number=1941|date=Winter 2017}}</ref> The suite comprises three movements - Scherzo, Nocturne and March.
'''''A Moorside Suite''''' (H.173) is a work for [[British brass band|brass band]] by the English composer [[Gustav Holst]]. It was commissioned by the [[BBC]] and the National Brass Band Festival Committee in 1927 for the final of the 1928 [[National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain]] at [[The Crystal Palace|Crystal Palace]].<ref name=allen>{{cite journal|last=Allen| first=Stephen Arthur |title=Symphony Within: Rehearing Holst's A Moorside Suite|journal=Musical Times|volume=158 |number=1941|date=Winter 2017}}</ref> The suite comprises three movements - Scherzo, Nocturne and March.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Moorside Suite, H.173 (Holst, Gustav) |url=https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Moorside_Suite,_H.173_(Holst,_Gustav) |website=IMSLP Petrucci Music Library |publisher=Project Petrucci LLC |accessdate=31 July 2019}}</ref>


Holst's biographer Michael Short notes that the suite features many of the hallmarks of the mature composer "from the skipping [[Time signature#Most frequent time signatures|6/8]] of the opening Scherzo, to the vigorous melodic fourths of the concluding March, the intervening Nocturne bearing a family resemblance to the slow-moving procession of ''Saturn''" [from ''[[The Planets]]'' suite].<ref>{{cite book | last= Short | first= Michael | year= 1990| title= Gustav Holst: The Man and his Music| location= Oxford | publisher= Oxford University Press | isbn=0-19-314154-X | page=263}}</ref>
Holst's biographer Michael Short notes that the suite features many of the hallmarks of the mature composer "from the skipping [[Time signature#Most frequent time signatures|6/8]] of the opening Scherzo, to the vigorous melodic fourths of the concluding March, the intervening Nocturne bearing a family resemblance to the slow-moving procession of ''Saturn''" [from ''[[The Planets]]'' suite].<ref>{{cite book | last= Short | first= Michael | year= 1990| title= Gustav Holst: The Man and his Music| location= Oxford | publisher= Oxford University Press | isbn=0-19-314154-X | page=263}}</ref>

Revision as of 16:20, 31 July 2019

A Moorside Suite (H.173) is a work for brass band by the English composer Gustav Holst. It was commissioned by the BBC and the National Brass Band Festival Committee in 1927 for the final of the 1928 National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain at Crystal Palace.[1] The suite comprises three movements - Scherzo, Nocturne and March.[2]

Holst's biographer Michael Short notes that the suite features many of the hallmarks of the mature composer "from the skipping 6/8 of the opening Scherzo, to the vigorous melodic fourths of the concluding March, the intervening Nocturne bearing a family resemblance to the slow-moving procession of Saturn" [from The Planets suite].[3]

Holst was himself a trombone player, and had already written works for military band, but this was his first and only work for brass band. The composer attended the competition and heard all 15 performances.[1] The competition was won by the Black Dyke Mills Band conduced by William Halliwell, who also conduced several of the other bands that day.[4] The composer was said to be delighted and wrote to the magazine The British Bandsman "Last Saturday I listened to musicians conducted by musicians".[1] The composer also arranged the "Nocturne" for string orchestra.[5]

The success of the commission led to a number of new works for brass band by leading British composers of the day being commissioned for the Championship Section Final, many of them now staples of the genre, including Sir Edward Elgar's The Severn Suite (1930), John Ireland's A Downland Suite (1932) and Comedy Overture (1934), Granville Bantock's Prometheus Unbound (1933), Sir Arthur Bliss's suite Kenilworth (1936) and Herbert Howells' suite Pageantry (1937).[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c Allen, Stephen Arthur (Winter 2017). "Symphony Within: Rehearing Holst's A Moorside Suite". Musical Times. 158 (1941).
  2. ^ "A Moorside Suite, H.173 (Holst, Gustav)". IMSLP Petrucci Music Library. Project Petrucci LLC. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  3. ^ Short, Michael (1990). Gustav Holst: The Man and his Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 263. ISBN 0-19-314154-X.
  4. ^ "1928 National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain final". Brass Band Results. 28 October 2018.
  5. ^ Taylor, Kenric (28 October 2018). "A Moorside Suite". Gustav Holst.info.
  6. ^ "National Championship of Great Britain (Championship Section Final)". Brass Band Results. 28 October 2018.
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