Table of 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.

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Erik Satie remains one of the most bizarre figures in music history, yet everything he did has its own curious logic, once it can be perceived.