Pièces Froides (Satie)
Arranger/Composer: Erik Satie
Item Code: 16440
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
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.
Program Notes
Erik Satie’s piano work Pièces Froides (1897) is comprised of two three-movement pieces, the first of these being Airs à 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.
Grade Level: 4
Copyright: 2009
Number of Players: 1
Duration: 4:30
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Category: Solo Works
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Instrumentation
Marimba (5-octave)