Satie the Composer

Contents

• List of illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Chronology
• Some descriptions of Satie
• 1. Satie's career as a composer: some interpretations
• 2. Why and where Satie composed
• 3. Parody, pastiche, quotation and the question of influence
• 4. Satie and Debussy
• 5. Satie's compositional aesthetic
• 6. Satie, counterpoint and the Schola Cantorum
• 7. Orchestration versus instrumentation
• 8. Questions of form, logic and the mirror image
• 9. Compositional systems and other sources of inspiration
• 10. Composition and the other arts
• 11. Satie on other composers
• 12. Satie and the wider world
• Appendix: chronological catalogue of Satie's compositions
• Notes
• Select bibliography
• Index of Satie's works
• General index.