A Symphony For Your Studies: A Look at Gustav Holst's "The Planets"

Orchestral music has been proven to help students studying, and as a student who enjoys listening to music while learning, symphonies are a good choice. (https://news.usc.edu/71969/studying-for-finals-let-classical-music-help/)

Enter Gustav Holst's suite, The Planets.

Each song is centered around the theme of the Greek God the planet was named for.

"Mars; The Bringer of War" or "Neptune; The Mystic", are all motivating and inspiring to get students over the proverbial hump of studying.

From the marching intensity in Mars, and the subtlety of a clock ticking in Saturn, Holst masterfully mends music that a modern audience can appreciate, with the classical, more honed style of the early twentieth century.