Satie the Bohemian : From Cabaret to Concert Hall Hardback
by Steven Moore (Assistant Professor of Music History/MusicologyUniversity of Michigan, Assist Whiting
Part of the Oxford Monographs on Music series
Hardback
Description
Erik Satie (1866-1925) came of age in the bohemian subculture of Montmartre, with its artists' cabarets and cafés-concerts.
Yet apologists have all too often downplayed this background as potentially harmful to the reputation of a composer whom they regarded as the progenitor of modern French music.
Whiting argues, on the contrary, that Satie's two decades in and around Montmartre decisively shaped his aesthetic priorities and compositional strategies.
He gives the fullest account to date of Satie's professional activities as a popular musician, and of how he transferred the parodic techniques and musical idioms of cabaret entertainment to works for concert hall.
From the esoteric Gymnopédies to the bizarre suites of the 1910s and avant-garde ballets of the 1920s (not to mention music journalism and playwriting), Satie's output may be daunting in its sheer diversity and heterodoxy; but his radical transvaluation of received artistic values makes far better sense once placed in the fascinating context of bohemian Montmartre.
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:604 pages, 4 plates, 39 music examples
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:18/02/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198164586
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:604 pages, 4 plates, 39 music examples
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:18/02/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198164586
