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In 1980, Gary Numan produced a track called "Trois Gymnopedies (First Movement)", which appeared on the B-side of the single "We Are Glass". [9] A sample of Gymnopédie No. 1 is featured in the 2001 Janet Jackson single "Someone to Call My Lover", peaking at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. [10]
Gnossiennes. Erik Satie (1891), by Ramon Casas. The Gnossiennes (French pronunciation: [ɡnosjɛn]) are several piano compositions by the French composer Erik Satie in the late 19th century. The works are for the most part in free time (lacking time signatures or bar divisions) and highly experimental with form, rhythm and chordal structure.
Erik Satie. In this list of Erik Satie's musical compositions, those series or sets comprising several pieces (e.g., Gnossienne 1, Gnossienne 2, etc.) with nothing but tempo indications to distinguish the movements by name, are generally given with the number of individual pieces simply stated in square brackets.
Erik Satie. Eric Alfred Leslie Satie[n 1] (17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. He was the son of a French father and a British mother. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, but was an undistinguished student and obtained no diploma. In the 1880s he worked as a pianist in ...
Erik Satie in army uniform, 1893 painting by Marcellin Desboutin [1]. The Sarabandes are three dances for solo piano composed in 1887 by Erik Satie.Along with the famous Gymnopédies (1888) they are regarded as his first important works, and the ones upon which his reputation as a harmonic innovator and precursor of modern French music, beginning with Debussy, principally rests. [2]
English: Originally written for the piano, the Gymnopedies are extremely well-suited to the natural idiomatic expression of the guitar. This arrangement of the Three Gymnopedies comprises ALL the notes of the original piano versions: a complex process since all the piano sounds must fit comfortably, or uncomfortably, onto the six strings of the guitar.
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Jeffrey Kaufman. Mal Waldron chronology. Breaking New Ground. (1983) Mal Waldron Plays Eric Satie. (1984) You and the Night and the Music. (1983) Mal Waldron Plays Eric Satie is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron playing compositions by Erik Satie recorded in 1983 and released by the Japanese Baybridge label.