La musica che fa da sottofondo al "Requiem per il CdS" è stata composta da Erik
Satie (1866-1925)
E. Satie in 1924. Photo by Man
Ray
Il brano seguente è tratto dalla pagina www.af.lu.se/~fogwall/intro.htm
Gymnopédies (1888)
The title might mean "a dance accompanied by song and performed by naked
Spartan girls" but the term
Gymnopædia
was an Apollonic celebration in ancient Sparta where men of all ages danced,
not naked, but unarmed. It's not known exactly where Satie found his
inspiration to these piano pieces. The works consist of a thin, ascetic,
"naked" piano structure in which lonesome and singularly expressive melodies
circle like falling autumn leaves; a monotonous, low bass line accompaniment,
and against it softly dissonant chords in the middle register, constantly
repeating the same iambic rhythm-pattern. Together this creates an atmosphere
of vague melancholy, of mysticism and exoticism. Perhaps there is also a
fin-de-siècle feeling, even some salon nostalgia.
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