 Richard Greene in "Music & Letters" describes the piece as "a larghetto dance in a siciliano rhythm with a simple, stepwise, rocking melody", but lacking the power of "The Planets" and, at times, monotonous to the listener.A more popular success was "A Moorside Suite" for brass band, written as a test piece for the National Brass Band Festival championships of 1928.While written within the traditions of north-country brass-band music, the suite, Short says, bears Holst's unmistakable imprint, "from the skipping 6/8 of the opening Scherzo, to the vigorous melodic fourths of the concluding March, the intervening Nocturne bearing a family resemblance to the slow-moving procession of "Saturn"".