Satie's Gnossienne No. 1

[chopinfan_22]

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?

[Etude]

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. 

[chopinfan_22]

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

[pianochick93]

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.

[shortyshort]

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. 

[dnephi]

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

[pianoanne]

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

[perfect_pitch]

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.