Trois Gnossiennes: expression notes

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As they appear in French and translated into English in "Satie: Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes", ed. Matthew Edwards, Schirmer Performance Editions

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Munissez-vous de clairvoyance (Arm yourself with clairvoyance)	5
De manière à obtenir un creux (So as to be a hole)	5
Du bout de la pensée (On the tip of thought)	3
Conseillez-vous soigneusement (Proceed carefully)	2
Ne sortez pas (Don't leave)	2
Seul, pendant un instant (Alone, for a moment)	1
Portez cela plus loin (Carry this further away)	1
Sur la langue (On the tip of the tongue)	1
Ouvrez la tête (Open the head)	1
Postulez en vous-même (Ask yourself)	1
Questionnez (Questioning)	1
Très perdu (Very lost)	0
Très luisant (Very shining)	0
Sans orgueil (Without pride)	0
Avec une légère humilité (With light humility)	0
Plus intimement (More intimately)	0
Dans une grande bonté (With great kindness)	0
Avec étonnement (With astonishment)	0
Pas à pas (Step by step)	0
Enfouissez le son (Muffle the sound)	0

― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 4 March 2018 04:55 (eight years ago)

Voted for

Munissez-vous de clairvoyance (Arm yourself with clairvoyance)

― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 4 March 2018 05:13 (eight years ago)

this is a good poll

satie is one of my favourite impressionist (if i am allowed the term) composers

i will give all these pieces a listen and vote later

i really enjoy thibaudet's interpretations and own his massive collection of satie recordings

― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 4 March 2018 05:30 (eight years ago)

so as to be a hole

― j., Sunday, 4 March 2018 06:18 (eight years ago)

kosugi clearly following all instructions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KADnnuEKCoQ

― Milton Parker, Sunday, 4 March 2018 06:22 (eight years ago)

haha my god what's that :D

― imago, Sunday, 4 March 2018 10:12 (eight years ago)

How do you go from obtaining to being in 'De manière à obtenir un creux' ('So as to be a hole')? Some freeform translations in here…

― pomenitul, Sunday, 4 March 2018 13:58 (eight years ago)

Yeah I don’t get that either. The editor offered the more literal translation of that one in the performance notes but apparently wanted to put a spin on it in this score.

Though on the other hand I have droned on before about the identification of the desire to possess with the desire to become so maybe this makes sense to me.

― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 4 March 2018 15:44 (eight years ago)

Milton, that's amazing!

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Sunday, 4 March 2018 16:43 (eight years ago)

two weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Friday, 23 March 2018 00:01 (eight years ago)

tbh I like all of them.

― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 23 March 2018 00:07 (eight years ago)

Only been playing piano for a couple years, anybody got any tips on playing “Très perdu”

― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 23 March 2018 00:08 (eight years ago)

Mentally voted "open the head" before even seeing the other options

― nevertheless, he stopped (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 23 March 2018 00:11 (eight years ago)

Voted on the tip of the tongue because it’s the one I can sort of imagine following musically

― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Friday, 23 March 2018 00:23 (eight years ago)

voted "on the tip of thought" because i am singing it to "On the Wings of Love" in my head

― Cambridge Metallica (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 March 2018 12:53 (eight years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Saturday, 24 March 2018 00:01 (eight years ago)

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