French composer Erik Satie created several works for the piano entitled Gnossienne. This is the first piece in a set of three published in 1893, and the first piece of what ultimately became seven works that shared the name Gnossienne. This rendition was performed by the La Pianista.
Author: Composer: Erik Satie Performer: La Pianista
French composer Erik Satie created several works for the piano entitled Gnossienne. This is the second piece in a set of three composed before the three works explicitly titled Gnossienne, but not published until after the composer's death, and not originally titled Gnossienne or numbered as such, and the fifth piece of what ultimately became seven works that shared the name Gnossienne. This rendition was performed by the La Pianista.
Author: Composer: Erik Satie Performer: La Pianista
French composer Erik Satie created several works for the piano entitled Gnossienne. This is the first piece in a set of three composed before the three works explicitly titled Gnossienne, but not published until after the composer's death, and not originally titled Gnossienne or numbered as such, and the fourth piece of what ultimately became seven works that shared the name Gnossienne. This rendition was performed by the La Pianista.
Author: Composer: Erik Satie Performer: La Pianista
Synthesized MIDI rendering of Guillaume Dufay's "Ave Regina", c.1450, Ox. Bod. Can. misc. 213 f.62, after facsimile in W. Apel, The Notation of Polyphonic Music (1960), facs. 26. Created with Lilypond.
Example of atonal music which avoids octaves, avoids major and minor triads, avoids more than three notes from the same diatonic scale, and avoids conjunct melodies/uses disjunct melodies. From Schoenberg's Klavierstucke, Op. 11, No. 1.