The Planets in Full Score (Dover Orchestral Music Scores)

This Dover score presents everything in a clear and easy-to-read way even though Holst wrote some interesting things that are difficult to notate by ear! The score does open up a new world - listening to it and reading/watching the score are two different things. I was completely unaware of Holst's gigantic forces and his wonderful orchestration that is present in the score.There's no see through on the pages (and where there is, it is only minimal). Main languages are English and Italian terms. For an 80-year old score, it's pretty impressive and in very good condition. A very good buy I must say for $10 - my friend had to pay close to $70 for her copy (both of which are exactly the same). A great bargain!

Excellent value. Easy to read - has everything including double chorus and organ. This is a must-have for budding VI composers.

Holst The Planets Suite for Orchestra

Great book, good price, all in neat print. I really enjoy the Planets and seeing how it's made it amazing (If not a bit terrifying). Jokes aside, it's a great buy for any fan of Holst.

In my music theory class we were told to find a piece that we would like to study for the semester and so I bought this and I am very pleased with it!

Excellent score, perfect for what I wanted to use for study purposes both at home for my pleasure and at school for my students.

We've been going over this piece in my composition class a lot lately, so I wanted my own score. For the money, this is a pretty damn good deal! The scores are very easy to read, mainly because of the "large" print on the notes and the fact that instrumentation is printed on EVERY page instead of just the first page of every movement like other scores do.The one thing that does kinda bother me though is that there isn't a lot of room between staves to jot down anything besides the chord progressions and where each section of a movement starts and stops...but it isn't really enough for me to NOT recommend this to someone. If the publisher released a new edition with more space between staves and maybe a brief analysis of each movement, I would probably buy that one too.

I've purchased orchestral scores before that have not been legible. This was happily not the case for the Dover Score. I read part of several movements while listening to recorded renditions. I found no errors. Very well done, which made this musical nerd quite happy!