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A mammal's notebook, the writings of Erik Satie, edited and introduced by Ornella Volta ; translations by Antony Melville

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A mammal's notebook, the writings of Erik Satie, edited and introduced by Ornella Volta ; translations by Antony Melville

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 223)

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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musicillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A mammal's notebook

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

879584552

Responsibility statement

edited and introduced by Ornella Volta ; translations by Antony Melville

Sub title

the writings of Erik Satie

Summary

"This is the largest selection of Erik Satie's writings yet to appear in English"--Back cover

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Translator's note -- Chronology -- I. Written for performance -- To who it may concern -- Texts not to be read aloud -- Automatic descriptions -- Dried embryos -- Chapters turned this way and that -- Old sequins & old breastplates -- [Three new children's pieces] -- Ko-Quo's childhood -- Childish prattle -- Colourful childish pursuits -- Tiresome peccadilloes -- Bothersome globs -- Insipid memories -- Reverie on a dish -- Sports & recreations -- Instantaneous centuries-old hours -- Three elegant waltzes by a squeamsih pansy -- Thoughts-before-last -- Bureaucratic sonatina -- Fake nocturne -- [Trilogy] -- Performance indications -- Texts to be danced -- Uspud (MS) -- Uspud (published version) -- An act -- Texts to be sung -- Three love poems -- Socrates -- Texts to be staged -- Medusa's snare -- II. Written for publication -- Epistles -- Epistle of the first of Erik Satie to Catholic artists and to all Christians -- To M. Camille Saint-Saëns -- From the Cartulaire -- Memoirs of an amnesic (fragments) -- What I am -- Perfect entourage -- My three candidatures -- Theatrical things -- The musician's day -- Intelligence and musicality among animals -- A simple question -- Hidden corners of my life -- Articulated articles -- On being dizzy -- Ambroise Thomas -- The musicians of Montmartre -- [Alibi] -- [Dispatch] -- The table -- Book-loving -- On reading -- Bad examples -- Good upbringing -- Igor Strawinsky -- Claude Debussy -- Talks -- A eulogy of critics -- Child musicians -- Musical spirit -- Public advertisements -- Clubs and societies in the coming fortnight -- III. Private writings -- A mammal's notebooks -- Private advertisements -- Notes -- IV. Catalogue of Erik Sate's musical and literary works with comments by the same gentleman

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