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chopinfan_22

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I unearthed this score along with his Gymnopedies and such, and when I looked at this piece of music, the first Gnossienne, there aren't any measure lines to denote different measures and there isn't a time signature. What the heck? Can anybody help me out? Is it just my score, or was Satie bad at writing music correctly?

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Re: Satie's Gnossienne No. 1

Reply #1 on: May 31, 2008, 06:40:08 AM

Bars are a cage for the development of music!

Well thats not really true at all but, but a lot of 20th Century guys don't use a metre (not that Satie doesn't, he just doesn't use bar-lines, it's clearly in 3/4 metre, and a lot of them use frequent bar lines), and to say such a thing would mean that they are also similarly not good at writing notation.

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Re: Satie's Gnossienne No. 1

Reply #2 on: May 31, 2008, 05:47:34 PM

Yeah. I was just so confused by it. Thanks though.

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Re: Satie's Gnossienne No. 1

Reply #3 on: June 02, 2008, 10:30:24 AM

I think it's quite awesome. I'm learning it at the moment and at first I found them strange, but now I'm used ot it, and it's quite a novelty.

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Re: Satie's Gnossienne No. 1

Reply #4 on: June 04, 2008, 05:14:31 PM

I like this piece.

I like the way he describes the way to play sections.

Try to imagine what he is trying to tell you.

I'm sure it loses something in translation.

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Re: Satie's Gnossienne No. 1

Reply #5 on: June 04, 2008, 05:16:48 PM

Actually, it's in 4/4, I believe.

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Re: Satie's Gnossienne No. 1

Reply #6 on: August 01, 2009, 04:47:35 PM

I believe a complete line is missing from this score! I'm sure Satie would love to see his line 6 returned.

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Re: Satie's Gnossienne No. 1

Reply #7 on: August 02, 2009, 03:11:13 AM

Quote from: Etude on May 31, 2008, 06:40:08 AM

Bars are a cage for the development of music!

Well thats not really true at all but... it's clearly in 3/4 metre

WHAT??? I think the semibreves every 4 beats contradict that... 4/4 for sure.

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