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In all my time listening and writing music, I have never heard a chord that so perfectly expressed the solitude of space as the one in Holst's Planets. An E-minor over a G#5 root:
G#
Eb
G#
E
G
B
It's played by trumpet and strings in the Holst suite, which sounds amazing. The strings play these amazing tenths while the trumpets and low brass hold the chord above. The whole thing sounds, well, just a billion miles away from anything. I love Holst's Planet's, but if there was one piece that I would say really sums up what I imagine is the feeling of being alone in space, that would be it. On the piano, it just sounds so stark, so disconnected from everything. Then the next chord:
E
B
E
G#
C
Eb
The exact opposite: a G# over an E5. It just sounds cold, frozen, blue and fundamentally terrifying.
G#
Eb
G#
E
G
B
It's played by trumpet and strings in the Holst suite, which sounds amazing. The strings play these amazing tenths while the trumpets and low brass hold the chord above. The whole thing sounds, well, just a billion miles away from anything. I love Holst's Planet's, but if there was one piece that I would say really sums up what I imagine is the feeling of being alone in space, that would be it. On the piano, it just sounds so stark, so disconnected from everything. Then the next chord:
E
B
E
G#
C
Eb
The exact opposite: a G# over an E5. It just sounds cold, frozen, blue and fundamentally terrifying.