Both these triads have a higher octave than the bass note. This arrangement leads to a gentler bass line, complementing the melancholic mood created by the upper hand. The piece finally descends into silence, evoking a delicate air of ambiguity. The 2nd version has a lighter tone and a variable chordal structure. The performance instructions direct the performers to create a grave, sad, and painful tone while playing each piece.
The same approach applied to Satie's other pieces, and he experimented with avant-garde compositional touches like directing that his piece Vexations be played times in a row. Satie argued for French composers to throw off the heavy mantle of German Romanticism, making him a critical influence on the evolution of 20th-century music in his home country and beyond. In , Debussy published an orchestration that brought an impressionistic touch to bear on Satie's music, illustrating a facility for achieving great effect with spare, spacious instrumental color.
John Cage was a passionate fan of Satie's, and through Cage as well as other mid-century figures, Satie helped provide the template for what we now call "ambient music. Cage seized on Satie's concept of musique d'ameublement , a French term often translated as "furniture music" — in other words, background music. Without Satie and his bold, evocative compositional style, music today would be very different.
So the next time you hear Gymnopedie No. Great analysis, Kathryn. It often strikes me that, in the late 19th century, composers were ahead of the game harmonically, and it took the rest of instrumental music a while to catch up! Even the older generation were in on it! Yes, Nuages Gris is so interesting! I love finding pieces where composers were pushing the boundaries years before it became popular.
Liszt had previous, of course — starting the Faust Symphony with a tone row decades before the term was even coined, for example — but NG was daring even for him.
Apologies, by the way, for forgetting to include a closing tag for the hyperlink in my previous comment! I cry and cry and cry when I hear this. For times gone by, for those who are no longer with us, for the times spent with our loved ones….. Dear Kathryn Louderback. I am a Danish musician and composer. Orledge, p. Among the possibilities are:. In September Satie composed three " sarabands " Trois Sarabandes , taking a quote from Contamine's La Perdition by way of introduction.
By this time, Satie knew Contamine personally. Play audio file. Performed by Robin Alciatore. Courtesy of Musopen. The anecdote of Satie introducing himself as a "gymnopaedist" in December runs as follows: the first time Satie visited the Chat Noir cabaret, he was introduced to its director, Rodolphe Salis , famous for serving sharp comments.
Being coerced to mention his profession, Satie, lacking any recognisable professional occupation, presented himself as a "gymnopaedist", supposedly in an attempt to outwit the director.
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