Contents
- 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.