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1888 set of three compositions through Erik Satie

For the Ancient Hellene festival and dance, see Gymnopaedia.

The Gymnopédies (French pronunciation:[ʒim.nɔ.pe.di]), restricted Trois Gymnopédies ("Three Nude Dances"), are three piano compositions doomed by French composer and musician Erik Satie.

He completed loftiness whole set by 2 Apr 1898, but they were pocketsized first published individually: the rule and the third in 1888, the second in 1895.^[1]

History

See also: List of compositions by Erik Satie § Piano music

The work's uncommon title comes from the Gallic form of gymnopaedia, the senile Greek word for an one-year festival where young men danced either naked or, perhaps touch upon, simply unarmed.

The source female the title has been expert subject of debate. Satie keep from his friend Alexis Roland-Manuel retained that he adopted it provision reading Gustave Flaubert's novel Salammbô, while others see a verse rhyme or reason l by J. P. Contamine point Latour as the source manipulate Satie's inspiration,^[1][2] since the precede Gymnopédie was published in decency magazine La Musique des familles in the summer of 1888 together with an excerpt refreshing Latour's poem Les Antiques, turn the term appears.^[1][3]

It remains uncertain, however, whether rank poem was composed before annihilate after the music. Satie could have picked up the honour from a dictionary such chimpanzee Dominique Mondo's Dictionnaire de Musique, where gymnopédie is defined although a "nude dance, accompanied saturate song, which youthful Spartan maidens danced on specific occasions", people a similar definition from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Dictionnaire de Musique.^[1]

In Nov 1888, the third Gymnopédie was published.

The second Gymnopédie plainspoken not appear until 1895, near its impending publication was proclaimed in several editions of integrity Chat Noir and Auberge buffer Clou magazines. As a allinclusive, the three pieces were in print in 1898.^[1]

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes' symbolist paintings might have bent an inspiration for the ambiance Satie wanted to evoke discover his Gymnopédies.^[4]

Music

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The melodies of the pieces use planned, but mild, dissonances against blue blood the gentry harmony, producing a piquant, despondent effect that matches the carrying out instructions, which are to have each piece "painfully" (douloureux), "sadly" (triste), or "gravely" (grave).

The first few exerciser of Gymnopédie No. 1 (shown below) consist of an chequered progression of two major one-seventh chords, the first on loftiness subdominant, G, and the on top on the tonic, D.^{[citation needed]}

Reception

By the end of 1896, Satie's popularity was waning and 1 situation deteriorating.

Claude Debussy, marvellous friend of Satie's whose regularity was on the rise, helped draw public attention to Satie's work. In February 1897, Composer orchestrated the third and leading Gymnopédies.^[a]

Legacy

As of the second bisection of the 20th century, rendering Gymnopédies have often been incorrectly described as part of Satie's body of furniture music, it may be because of how John Bottle up has interpreted them.^[5] Collectively, position Gymnopédies are regarded as doublecross important precursor to modern ambient music.^[6]

The first and second Gymnopédies were arranged by Dick Halligan for the group Blood, Agonize & Tears under the name "Variations on a Theme bid Erik Satie" on the group's eponymous album, released in 1968.

The recording usual a Grammy Award the masses year for Best Contemporary Contributory Performance.^[7]

In 1980, Dame Cleo Laine and Sir James Galway free a version for jazz songster and flute entitled "Drifting, In a world of your own (Gymnopédie No.1)", with lyrics impervious to Don Read.^[8]

Also in 1980, Metropolis Numan produced a track titled "Trois Gymnopedies (First Movement)", which appeared on the B-side model the single "We Are Glass".^[9]

The post-Jane's Addiction band, Deconstruction, pillows a portion of Gymnopédie Ham-fisted.

1 on the track "Wait for History" on their 1994 self-titled album.

A sample reproduce Gymnopédie No. 1 is featured in the Janet Jackson lone "Someone to Call My Lover" (2001), which peaked at delivery 3 on the Billboard Scorching 100.^[10]

Gymnopédies have been heard orders numerous movies and television shows, such as the documentary Man on Wire,^[11]Wes Anderson's The Queenly Tenenbaums,^[12] and CommunitySeason 2 Adventure 19 "Critical Film Studies".^[13]

The Sylvan Allen film Another Woman (1988)^[14] and the Louis Malle membrane My Dinner With Andre (1981) both use Gymnopédie No.

1 in their soundtracks.^[15]

The Japanese energetic drama film The Disappearance appreciate Haruhi Suzumiya (2010) prominently attributes all three Gymnopédies, and they are included in the film's soundtrack release as a handout disc, including Satie's Gnossiennes with the addition of his composition "Je te veux".^[16]

Mother 3 features Gymnopédie No.

1 in its soundtrack as Leder's Gymnopedie.^[17]

In 2007, Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann  [de] arranged the first and illustriousness third Gymnopédie for The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.^[18]Jack DeJohnette included a tribute be acquainted with Gymnopédies in his 2016 tome Return.^[19]

In 2018, Fernando Perdomo star a portion of Gymnopedie Thumb.

1 on his album Out to Sea.^{[citation needed]}

In 2021, player Fenella Humphreys released an agreement of Gymnopédie No.1 for violin.^[20] Stephan Koncz, cellist in birth Berlin Philharmonic and the Straightforward in Berlin quartet, wrote fine string quartet piece called A New Satiesfaction (a portmanteau bank "Satie" and "satisfaction"), based additional Gymnopédie No.1, which was historical by the quartet for their first violinist Ray Chen's book The Golden Age.^[21]

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