Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age

This piece is the fifth piece of music in Gustav Holst's the Planets. It is called Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age. It starts of with piano dynamics and stays with the same melody for about eight bars. There is a crescendo and then it goes back down to the same level of volume. The music is now a mezzo forte. The music is quite slow and quiet. The same melody heard at the start is heard all the way through it. The pitch rises and the volume of the music changes to mezzo forte. It slows back down, the pitch lowers and the volume drops. A sudden rise in the volume then a sudden drop, and another melody is repeated until the music rises in volume to a mezzo piano then up to a forte and percussion instruments are heard. The music stays at this volume then it sounds like you can hear church bell in the distance. The rhythm is repeated again until the church bells are heard again.The volume drops back down to a piano level and church bells are heard again. The music drops to a pianissimo volume then back up to a piano level. There is a crescendo and the music stays at a mezzo forte level with high pitched notes. The music then rises up to a mezzo forte and the piece is slow. The piece starts to decline in volume leading up to the end. The diminuendo continues until almost no sound can be heard. It fades out to a silent stop. The music slow most of the way through it, the pitch was mainly low but had some high parts and the volume varied. It was mainly quiet but there were a few occasional crescendos and occasionally the music was forte. This piece of music represents old age well as it is slow and quiet - like a stereotypical old persons life. The high pitched parts could represent the old person going to a club or even dying as the high pitch could represent them enjoying a new life. I also think it could be them dying there were church bells in the background.