Acutally, I now see that Satie also never specified which instrument this should be played on.
― everything, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
^ That could be common practice for him; he often eschewed bar lines as well, and other 'necessities' of printed music.
― it takes a lot to laugh, it takes a crane shot to 'NOOOOOO' (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
It's either a deliberate attempt to confuse the performer or else he's subverting the normal rules of musical notation for fun. On the second line he's got D#s bumping up against Ebs in a way that is not logical. There is probably some internal system which is only understandable if you are a musicologist geek.
― everything, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
>It's either a deliberate attempt to confuse the performer or else he's subverting the normal rules of musical notation for fun.
Erik Satie's Performance Indications
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Satie's Performance Indications > Eno's Oblique Strategies
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
He's a funny guy all right!
― everything, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
The great thing is, almost every performance indication on that page can be actually applied to one's performance on some level.
Love the little prose poems he attached to the 3 Embyrons Desechees...
― it takes a lot to laugh, it takes a crane shot to 'NOOOOOO' (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Trying to get hold of a relatively new recording of this by Stephane Ginsburgh, got a great review in Brainwashed a few months ago, but local stores (and, indeed, some classical music stores in a few cities in Europe) are letting me down.
― louiiiis jjjjagger (S-), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 04:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Today is the day.
― when entitlement goes unfilled (doo dah), Thursday, 21 June 2012 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
Entering hour 5 of @igorpianist's Vexations marathon... https://t.co/HJBHsqoyWM— Alex Ross (@alexrossmusic) May 30, 2020
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 30 May 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link