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Original

Pieces Froides. Erik Satie. Marimba sheet music. Percussion sheet music. Advanced.

Translation

Pieces Froides. Erik Satie. Marimba sheet music. Percussion sheet music. Advanced.

Original

Pieces Froides composed by Erik Satie. 1866-1925. Arranged by M. Berry. Percussion Ensemble. For Marimba. 4-mallet. marimba. 5-octave. Medium difficult. Duration 4. 30. Published by C. Alan Publications. CN.16440. A charming and expressive solo for marimba that allows the modern marimbist to get a second look at Satie's music from another angle. Perfect for an interim piece on your next recital. Erik Satie's piano work Pieces Froides. 1897. is comprised of two three-movement pieces, the first of these being Airs A faire fuir. tunes to make you run away. , the second, Danses de travers. slanted dances. Satie. 1866-1925. often wrote music around a single idea yet, approaching it from several different ways-much like a visual artist studying a subject from many perspectives before painting. His music is at times, antithetical to, and perhaps reactionary to the soaring heights of the late nineteenth-century virtuoso performer, and the Wagnerian sense of 'music-for-posterity' that the twentieth-century inherited. Upon first hearing Danses de travers, I was immediately drawn to the work not only by its unfussiness and charm, but by it's sweeping elongated phrases. The more I listened, the more I began to hear the expressive possibilities of a marimba adaptation. The arpeggiated triads in the left hand-1-5-3, 1-5-3, 1-5-3-seemed to establish the perfect foundation on which to overlay Satie's crooked melodies in octaves. Satie in the first measure of the score, in a whimsically nonsensical way-perhaps with a touch of dadaism-instructs the performer, 'En y regardant A deux fois. ' This adaptation affords the modern marimbist the opportunity to 'get a second look at' Satie's music from another angle, and with a new perspective. Mark Berry.

Translation

Pieces Froides composed by Erik Satie. 1866-1925. Arranged by M. Berry. Percussion Ensemble. For Marimba. 4-mallet. marimba. 5-octave. Medium difficult. Duration 4. 30. Published by C. Alan Publications. CN.16440. A charming and expressive solo for marimba that allows the modern marimbist to get a second look at Satie's music from another angle. Perfect for an interim piece on your next recital. Erik Satie's piano work Pieces Froides. 1897. is comprised of two three-movement pieces, the first of these being Airs A faire fuir. tunes to make you run away. , The second through Dances. slanted dances. Satie. 1866-1925. often wrote music around a single idea yet, approaching it from several different ways-much like a visual artist studying a subject from many perspectives before painting. His music is at times, antithetical to, and perhaps reactionary to the soaring heights of the late nineteenth-century virtuoso performer, and the Wagnerian sense of 'music-for-posterity' that the twentieth-century inherited. Upon first hearing Danses de travers, I was immediately drawn to the work not only by its unfussiness and charm, but by it's sweeping elongated phrases. The more I listened, the more I began to hear the expressive possibilities of a marimba adaptation. The arpeggiated triads in the left hand-1-5-3, 1-5-3, 1-5-3-seemed to establish the perfect foundation on which to overlay Satie's crooked melodies in octaves. Satie in the first measure of the score, in a whimsically nonsensical way-perhaps with a touch of dadaism-instructs the performer, 'En y regardant A deux fois. ' This adaptation affords the modern marimbist the opportunity to 'get a second look at' Satie's music from another angle, and with a new perspective. Mark Berry.