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

• Published in: Musical times (London, England : 1957) Vol. 150; no. 1908; pp. 31 - 41
• Main Author: Orledge, Robert
• Format: Magazine Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...