Parade and Other Works for Piano Four Hands

Erik Satie (1866-1925): Parade y otras obras para piano cuatro manos. Partitura general.

Selected and with notes by Victor Rangel-Ribeiro.

Throughout the history of music there has always been the contrapuntal struggle between convention and innovation. In the end, the true innovators make their mark and change the structure of music forever. Erik Satie, the great twentieth-century French composer, was just such an innovator.
Even though he was associated with the avant-garde artistic movements of early twentieth century Paris -cubism, surrealism, dadism, and neo-classicism- Satie neither aligned himself with any particular group nor followed a particular doctrine. Though formally trained, he was a true nonconformist, who struck out on his own path to develop a musical structure that reflected his unique personality and eccentricities.
This new compilation contains some of Satie's most enduring compositions-piano works for four hands, originally published separately in early authoritative editions. "Parade," composed in 1916, and created in collaboration with Cadeau, Massine and Picasso, was hailed as a "cubist manifesto." Stripped of subjective emotion, the work removed basic fragments of melody and simple harmonies from their conventional associations, recasting them in unexpected but logical patterns-mirroring the cubist painters' transformation of everyday items into novel configurations. Also included here are such representative compositions as "La belle excentrique," "En habit de cheval," Trois morceaux en forme de poire," "Trois petites pièces montées," and "Aperçus désagéables."
Students and performers of four-hand piano music will be thrilled to have this new edition of "Parade" and other works by one of the twentieth century's most influential composers.

CONTENIDO:

Notes
Glossary
- Trois morceaux en forme de poire . Three pieces in the shape of a pear
Maniere de commencement· By way of a beginning
Prolongement du meme . A prolongation of the same
I. Lentement· Slowly
II. Enleve. Briskly
III. Brutal· Forceful and harsh
En plus· Once again
Redite . A needless repetition

- Aperçus désagréables . Disagreeable glimpses
Pastorale
Choral· Chorale
Fugue

- En habit de cheval . In a riding habit
Choral· Chorale
Fugue litanique . Fugue on a litany
Autre choral· Another chorale
Fugue de papier . Paper fugue

- Parade: Ballet fataliste en un tableau · Parade: Realist ballet in one tableau
Prelude du ride au rouge· Prelude of the red curtain
[Entry of the First Manager}
1. Prestidigitateur chinois . Chinese conjurer
3. Petite fille americaine. Young American girl
[Entry of the Second Manager]
Rag-time du paquebot . Ragtime of the passenger steamer
[Entry of the Third Manager as a pantomime horse]
2.Acrobates· Acrobats
[Supreme effort and fall of the Managers]
Suite au Prelude du ride au rouge · Continuation of the Prélude of the red curtain

- Trois petites piéces montees . Three tiny layer cakes
I. De l'enfance de Pantagruel (Rêverie) · From Pantagruel's childhood (Reverie)
II. Marche de Cocagne (Demarche) . Cockaigne march (Walk)
III. Jeux de Gargantua (Coin de polka) . Gargantua's pastimes (Polka corner)

- La belle excentrique (Fantaisie serieuse) · The eccentric beauty (Serious fantasy)
Grand ritournelle . Grand ritornello
I. Marche franco-lunaire . Franco-lunar march
II. Valse du "Mystérieux Baiser dans l'Oeil" · Waltz of "The Mysterious Kiss within the Eye"
III. Cancan grand-mondain . Cancan for high society