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A mammal's notebook : the writings of Erik Satie / edited and introduced by Ornella Volta ; translations by Antony Melville.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.S196 A25 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Satie, Erik, 1866-1925.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Satie, Erik, 1866-1925.
- Music--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Satie, Erik, 1866-1925--Translations in English.
- Satie, Erik.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Atlas, 2014.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- "This is the largest selection of Erik Satie's writings yet to appear in English."--back cover.
- Contents:
- I. Written for performance: Texts not to be read aloud: Automatic descriptions
- Dried embryos
- Chapters turned this way and that
- Old sequins & old breastplates
- [Three new children's pieces]
- Ko-Quo's childhood
- Childish prattle
- Colourful childish pursuits
- Tiresome peccadilloes
- Bothersome globs
- Insipid memories
- Reverie on a dish
- Sports & recreations
- Instantaneous centuries-old hours
- Three elegant waltzes by a squeamsih pansy
- Thoughts-before-last
- Bureaucratic sonatina
- Fake nocturne
- [Trilogy]
- Performance indications; Texts to be danced: Uspud (MS)
- Uspud (published version)
- An act; Texts to be sung: Three love poems
- Socrates; Texts to be staged: Medusa's snare; II. Written for publication: Epistles: Epistle of the first of Erik Satie to Catholic artists and to all Christians
- To M. Camille Saint-Saëns
- From the Cartulaire; Memoirs of an amnesic (fragments): What I am
- Perfect entourage
- My three candidatures
- Theatrical things
- The musician's day
- Intelligence and musicality among animals
- A simple question
- Hidden corners of my life; Articulated articles: On being dizzy
- Ambroise Thomas
- The musicians of Montmartre
- [Alibi]
- [Dispatch]
- The table
- Book-loving
- On reading
- Bad examples
- Good upbringing
- Igor Strawinsky
- Claude Debussy; Talks: A eulogy of critics
- Child musicians
- Musical spirit; Public advertisements: Clubs and societies in the coming fortnight; III. Private writings: A mammal's notebooks
- Private advertisements
- Notes; IV. Catalogue of Erik Sate's musical and literary works with comments by the same gentleman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 223).
- "Dismissed as a bizarre eccentric by many, Erik Satie has come to be seen as a key influence on 20th- and 21st-century music. His compositions include, among other works, the ubiquitous Gymnopédies, the Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear and the Dadaist opera Relâche. In later life he gathered round him Les Six, the cream of the new generation of French composers and his influence has continued to widen; John Cage and the New York School composers hailed him as "indispensable", and more recently certain of his pieces have been seen as prefiguring both minimalist and ambient music."--back cover.
- Includes illustrations by Charles Martin.
- ISBN:
- 1900565668
- 9781900565660
- OCLC:
- 879584552
- Publisher Number:
- 99959678744
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