Category: modern music

• So That’s What Gymnopedie Means

  This was one of the first songs I learned in the music program at school. It is titled “Gymnopedie No. 1” by Eric Satie. Most versions are slower than this, but since we all have busy schedules I gave it a quicker tempo. Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (May 17, 1866 – July 1, 1925), who […]

  The Write Stuff

  8 Aug 2022

  modern music, Music

  eric satie, gymnopedie no. 1

• It is Finished

  I have finished transcribing all 18 songs from the music book Piano Literature, Volume One. All of the songs were written in the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Contemporary eras. The eight composers are as follows: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827) Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Fritz Spindler (1817-1905) Bela Bartok […]

  The Write Stuff

  21 Jul 2022

  baroque music, classical music, modern music

  bartok, kabalevsky, shostakovich