Is This The Beginning Of Modern Music? (Satie: Gymnopedie 1)

[@thepsg]

I have always thought that this piece was so much more than "relaxing" music. I too thought about how radical this music must have seemed to those who heard it in 1888. Thank you for your insightful analysis of this ground breaking composition.

[@OctopusContrapunctus]

Satie really broke the and expanded the concept of music. Being a complete freak of a character he also created this idea of an "an artist acting as an artist" Examples bieng: a by the minute scheduled routine, wearing always the same clothes, having a diet of only white coloured food, having a religion where you are the only one taking part in it, eccc. Wery wacky guy. Love him

[@CristinaMarshal]

O, how utterly precious this piece is - my goodness, I never have heard such excellence and tranquility in a song before; tranquility in the acceptance of ongoing time.

[@PxThucydides]

For anyone interested "Call Me Maybe" reuses this chord progression wonderfully.

[@izzyk867]

Mesmerising. So beautiful and deceptively simple… thank you for the usual brilliant analysis.

[@Silver-Ellipsis]

I heard this when I was much younger, and found it immediately hypnotic. The memory haunted me for years until I learned its name and composer.

[@timothy4664]

God I love playing Gymnopedie. It always chills me out. In fact...

[@pwjaiter6277]

I love the music of Satie! It’s just a world on its own no other music sounds similar

[@Desmaad]

This always struck me as a melancholy piece. It brings to mind sitting on a bench on a bank of the Seine, looking forlornly across the water.

[@robertmueller2023]

I prefer Schoenberg's 12-tone technique. "Shhh! This part really hits the spot."

[@DressedForDrowning]

I also love his three Sarabandes.

[@marketablecoleslaw]

I always describe the Gymnopedies as "reflective, introspective, and depressive"

[@noobyoshi]

Thanks for helping me understand this piece and break my delusion that it was easy to play

[@goldmund2902]

Your videos are wonderful!

[@themusicprofessor]

Thank you!

[@musicisspecial1]

Thanks, Prof! Is there a name for when a major piece ends tonic minor? Like the opposite of a tierce de Picardie?!

[@themusicprofessor]

There isn't - because it's actually very unusual! Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony is the earliest example I can think of. Chopin and Brahms did it occasionally.

[@rupertaustin]

@@themusicprofessor Schubert's impromptu in E flat Op.90 No.2 is a slightly earlier example - about 5 years before the Italian Symphony I think.

[@themusicprofessor]

Yes! Bravo!

[@GradyPhilpott]

Fascinating.

[@JennMartinello]

Music to my ears. ❤

[@nicoloclementi1506]

Maestro, may I ask for an analysis video of Debussy’s last piano piece, ‘Les soirs illuminée par l’ardeur du charbon’? I think it’s a very nice and intriguing piece.

[@themusicprofessor]

It's a beautiful piece and very rarely heard. Thank you for the suggestion.

[@marjieestivill]

More discussion of Satie’s style, thank you! All these years I was just translating the title literally: Naked children. Never knew this was about naked Spartans! So were the Spartan warriors children/youths?

[@themusicprofessor]

I'm not an expert on Spartan culture but, yes, I believe they were young warriors.

[@darthlaurel]

So beautiful.

[@Desmaad]

What font did you use for the captions?

[@bernardobegf]

Why don't you analyze some of Claude Bolling's works? The perfect mix of Classical Music and Jazz

[@ruramikael]

The beginning of modern music is Malediction by Liszt some 50 years earlier.

[@saibhandari]

Brilliant

[@_fliszt4908]

この曲にこんな事実があったとは!とてもいい分析ですね

[@themusicprofessor]

ありがとう

[@themobiusfunction]

I think it's in G major with modes

[@themusicprofessor]

It is modal but the overall tonality is D. Each section ends with a cadence on D. I agree that it's very ambiguous with the harmony rocking between G maj 7 and D maj 7 but Satie would appear to be conceiving the melody in D (it has two sharps) over a plagal accompaniment.

[@jessebrennan7130]

I read somewhere once that Satie's music is like 'New Age'

[@jeanlot]

It Is. It seems a new Age piece of the 90's.

[@richardpeterson1398]

This music sound kinda Burt Bacharachish, it’s also East of the Mountain music on the prairie.

[@jeanlot]

Bacharach in USA was a pupil of Darius Milhaud,..Who was pupil and admirer of Eric Satie

[@marcelobrunorodrigues7630]

Cannot we consider it as a modal piece instead of tonal? Or atonal?

[@themusicprofessor]

Yes

[@jeanlot]

When i discovered that Satie invented this piece in 1888 i was shocked

[@themusicprofessor]

It is shocking! Much more than the Rite of Spring being written in 1912!

[@lucanutricati8520]

Hi music professor, undoubtedly the content of your videos is high quality but it would increase to an unreachable level if you do make these videos with your own voice in front of the piano. I hope it will happen soon!

[@themusicprofessor]

We have made many videos in that format!

[@mrpocock]

This piece could almost be club music. Identical structure, slightly different instrumentation.

[@lucastournier6085]

Erik Satie était un prophète. Le fils des étoiles est d'ailleurs une de ses œuvres les plus étranges, très angoissante, et très moderne

[@themusicprofessor]

Oui, Le Fils des étoiles est une pièce merveilleuse et mystérieuse.

[@Aresydatch]

I thought it was composed in the 1900s here but it turns out it's from 1888

[@themusicprofessor]

Yes. It is groundbreaking music.

[@Nadie-ow1vg]

Beh, senza dubbio è musica ma, non scherziamo! C'è musica e musica.

[@davidbrown8763]

Eric Satie is a much better composer than Arnold Schoenberg and John Cage combined.

[@leechild4655]

Isnt that what music is. not orderly neat and concise sounds. thats boring. It has to be provocative, ambiguous, mysterious, moody, what have you, It has to be or why listen to something that doesnt evoke anything other than notes and chords that all fit together perfectly based upon some theory we have of music.