Vexations
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title:
Vexations
text:
Vexations is a musical work by Erik Satie. Apparently conceived for keyboard, it consists of a short theme in the bass whose four presentations are heard alternatingly unaccompanied and played with chords above. The theme and its accompanying chords are written using enharmonic notation. The piece is undated, but scholars usually assign a date around 1893–1894 on the basis of musical and biographical evidence. The piece bears the inscription "In order to play the motif 840 times in succession, i
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Composition by Erik Satie
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexations
date created:
2004-04-12T07:03:33Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T20:27:06Z
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