Erik Satie's ballet "uspud": Prime Numbers and the Creation of a New Language with Only Half the Alphabet

The large 'uspud' brochure of April 1893(8) shows that four of the above characters held a special fascination for Satie and were singled out as the subjects of forthcoming works in an advertisement on the final page. [...] ONTROTANCE, ballet in one act' is listed as 'in preparat...

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Published inMusical times (London, England : 1957) Vol. 150; no. 1908; pp. 31 - 41
Main Author Orledge, Robert
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London The Musical Times Publications Ltd 01.10.2009
Musical Times Publications, Ltd
Subjects
Advertisements
Alphabets
Ballet
Ballet music
Composers
Fibonacci sequence
Friendship
Music
Music composition
Musical chords
Poetry
Prime numbers
Punctuation
Satie, Erik
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Summary:The large 'uspud' brochure of April 1893(8) shows that four of the above characters held a special fascination for Satie and were singled out as the subjects of forthcoming works in an advertisement on the final page. [...] ONTROTANCE, ballet in one act' is listed as 'in preparation' and 'CORCLERU, ballet in three acts/IRNEBIZOLLE, ballet in two acts [and]/TUMISRUDEBUDE, ballet in three acts' are listed 'for later on (God willing)'.
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ISSN:0027-4666
2397-5318