{"id":4140,"date":"2022-11-09T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/?p=4140"},"modified":"2023-09-11T15:59:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T19:59:02","slug":"arachnophonia-erik-satie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/2022\/11\/arachnophonia-erik-satie-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Arachnophonia: Erik Satie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> Arachnophonia<\/a> (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library<\/a>\u2018s collection.<\/p>\n

All links included in these posts will take you to either the library catalog record for the item in question<\/a> or to additional relevant<\/a> information from<\/a> around the web<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s installment of Arachnophonia<\/a> is by student assistant Nikoloz (class of 2026) and features a book about French composer Erik Satie<\/a>. Thanks, Nikoloz!<\/em><\/p>\n

Erik Satie<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Erik Satie in 1920<\/p><\/div>\n

Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a French composer whose spare, unconventional, often witty style influenced 20th-century music greatly, particularly in France. Satie\u2019s music represents the first definite break with 19th-century French Romanticism. Closely allied to the Dadaist<\/a>\u202fand Surrealist<\/a> movements in art, it refuses to become involved with grandiose sentiment or transcendent significance, disregards traditional forms and tonal structures, and characteristically takes the form of parody, with flippant titles, such as Trois morceaux en forme de poire<\/a><\/em> (1903; Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear<\/em>) and Embryons Dess\u00e9ch\u00e9s<\/a><\/em> (1913; Desiccated Embryos<\/em>), and directions to the player such as \u201cwith much illness\u201d or \u201clight as an egg.\u201d Satie was often dismissed as a charlatan by musicians who misunderstood his irreverence and wit. <\/p>\n

One of Satie\u2019s most known works are the Trois Gymnop\u00e9dies<\/a><\/em> (1888). Gymnop\u00e9die No.1 (You can listen to it here<\/a>), for example, is a work of music not too complicated. Regardless, I have always found it to influence me like no other piece. Sometimes, it sets the mood to be quite melancholic while also, in my opinion, sprinkling a vast amount of joy by the end. Other times it could lay a feeling of calmness on the listener, like a break from a hard day at work or a breeze on a hot summer afternoon. <\/p>\n

You can check out this book<\/a> (among others<\/a>) in the Parsons Music Library if you\u2019d like to learn more about Erik Satie and his work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note: Arachnophonia (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library\u2018s collection. All links included in these … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61217,15223],"tags":[61217,230861,38100,10,120698,225934,225936,225933,225872,225937,225935],"class_list":["post-4140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arachnophonia","category-collection","tag-arachnophonia","tag-arachnophonia-22-23","tag-book","tag-books","tag-composers","tag-dadaism","tag-discography","tag-eric-satie","tag-nikoloz","tag-rollo-hugh-myers","tag-surrealism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgMV3E-14M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4140"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4145,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions\/4145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}