Satie the composer / Robert Orledge.
| Author/creator | Orledge, Robert |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990. |
| Description | xliii, 394 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm |
| Subjects |
| Series | Music in the twentieth century Music in the twentieth century. ^A275257 |
| Contents | Satie's career as a composer: some interpretations -- Why and where Satie composed -- Parody, pastiche, quotation and the question of influences -- Satie and Debussy -- Satie's compositional aesthetic -- Satie, counterpoint and the Schola Cantorum -- Orchestration versus instrumentation. 1890-1909 ; 1909-1917 ; 1917-1924 -- Questions of form, logic, and the mirror image. Concepts of time and space ; Punctuation form in the Rose-Croix music ; Compositional logic in other Rose-Croix pieces ; Sonata form and the question of development ; Motivic construction ; Proportional reflections and mirror images ; The strange case of Relache -- Compositional systems and other sources of inspiration -- Composition and the other arts. 1886-1905 ; 1905-1924. Literature and poetry ; Painting, sculpture and theatrical collaborations -- Satie on other composers -- Satie and the wider world. |
| Abstract | In this important new study the author reveals what made Satie 'tick' as a composer, dealing with every aspect of Satie's complex career and relating his achievement to the other arts and to the society in which he lived. Almost every figure in contemporary art was involved with Satie in some way or another, from Matisse and Picasso to Apollinaire, Cocteau and Brancusi. This, however, is no mere life-and-works study but rather an exploration of the technique behind Satie's art, which foreshadowed most of the 'advances' of twentieth-century music from serialism to minimalism, and even muzak. As the book progresses Satie appears as far more than just the composer of the popular Gymnopédies and Parade. |
| General note | "Chronological catalogue of Satie's compositions": pages 266-335. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-380) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 89022309 |
| ISBN | 0521350379 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML410.S196 O74 1990 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |