Erik Satie: Music, Art and Literature
Erik Satie: Music, Art and Literature

Author: Caroline Potter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1317141792

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Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a quirky, innovative and enigmatic composer whose impact has spread far beyond the musical world. As an artist active in several spheres - from cabaret to religion, from calligraphy to poetry and playwriting - and collaborator with some of the leading avant-garde figures of the day, including Cocteau, Picasso, Diaghilev and René Clair, he was one of few genuinely cross-disciplinary composers. His artistic activity, during a tumultuous time in the Parisian art world, situates him in an especially exciting period, and his friendships with Debussy, Stravinsky and others place him at the centre of French musical life. He was a unique figure whose art is immediately recognisable, whatever the medium he employed. Erik Satie: Music, Art and Literature explores many aspects of Satie's creativity to give a full picture of this most multifaceted of composers. The focus is on Satie's philosophy and psychology revealed through his music; Satie's interest in and participation in artistic media other than music, and Satie's collaborations with other artists. This book is therefore essential reading for anyone interested in the French musical and cultural scene of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Fashion and Modernity
Fashion and Modernity

Author: Christopher Breward

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13:

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What is the relationship between fashion and modernity, and how is this unique relationship manifested in the material world? This book considers how the relationship between fashion and modernity tests the very definition of modernity and enhances our understanding of the role of fashion in the modern world.

A Mammal's Notebook
A Mammal's Notebook

Author: Erik Satie

Publisher: Atlas Press (GB)

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 9781900565660

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This is the largest selection, in any language, of the writings of Erik Satie. Although he was dismissed as an eccentric by many, Satie has come to be seen as a key influence on modern music. The appeal of his writings, however, go far beyond their musical value. He is revealed as one of the most beguiling of absurdists, in the mode of Lewis Carroll or Edward Lear, but with a strong streak of Dadaism (a movement with which he collaborated).

The Poems in Verse
The Poems in Verse

Author: Stéphane Mallarmé

Publisher: Miami University Press Poetry

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781881163503

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Poetry. Translated from the French by Peter Manson. THE POEMS IN VERSE is Peter Manson's translation of The Poésies of Stéphane Mallarmé. Long overshadowed by Mallarmé's theoretical writings and by his legendary visual poem "Un coup de Dés jamais n'abolira le Hasard," the Poésies are lyrics of a uniquely prescient and generative modernity. Grounded in a scrupulous sounding of the complex ambiguities of the original poems, Manson's English translations draw on the resources of the most innovative poetries of our own time these may be the first translations really to trust the English language to bear the full weight of Mallarméan complexity. With THE POEMS IN VERSE, Mallarmé's voice is at last brought back, with all its incisive strangeness, into the conversation it started a hundred and fifty years ago, called contemporary poetry."

Eat Sleep Bagpipes Repeat
Eat Sleep Bagpipes Repeat

Author: Mirako Press

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-07-18

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9781723229053

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This adorable music notebook is perfect for staffs, kids and musicians. The high-quality manuscript book includes 110 pages of 12 staves. Let exercise your composing skills with this well-designed music sketchbook! Enjoy!

Jewish American Literature
Jewish American Literature

Author: Jules Chametzky

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 1264

ISBN-13: 9780393048094

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A collection of Jewish-American literature written by various authors between 1656 and 1990.

Satie the Composer
Satie the Composer

Author: Robert Orledge

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990-10-26

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9780521350372

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Erik Satie remains one of the most bizarre figures in music history, yet everything he did has its own curious logic, once it can be perceived. In this important new study Dr Orledge reveals what made Satie 'tick' as a composer, dealing with every aspect of Satie's complex career and relating his achievement to the other arts and to the society in which he lived. Almost every figure in contemporary art was involved with Satie in some way or another, from Matisse and Picasso to Apollinaire, Cocteau and Brancusi. This, however, is no mere life-and-works study but rather an exploration of the technique behind Satie's art, which foreshadowed most of the 'advances' of twentieth-century music from serialism to minimalism, and even muzak. As the book progresses Satie appears as far more than just the composer of the popular Gymnopédies and Parade.

I Remember
I Remember

Author: Georges Perec

Publisher: Gallic Books

Published: 2020-05-21

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781910477854

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'Perec is serious fun' The Guardian Both an affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring memoir, Georges Perec's I Remember is now available in English to UK readers for the first time, with an introduction by David Bellos. In 480 numbered statements, all beginning identically with 'I remember', Perec records a stream of individual memories of a childhood in post-war France, while posing wider questions about memory and nostalgia. As playful and puzzling as the best of his novels, I Remember is an ode to life: the ordinary, the extraordinary, and the sometimes trivial, as seen through the eyes of the irreplaceable Georges Perec.