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work_45vralls3zgxxpgyyzmd525shm	Alan Lessem	ALAN M. GILLMOR. Erik Satie. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988. xxvi. 387 pp	1988	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1744	143	65	All Rights Reserved © Canadian University Music Society / Société de musique Canadian University Music Society / Société de musique des universités an ideal balance between biography, musical description and critical evaluation. wondering, however, whether French musical traditions were not more important to the subject than Gillmor allows. it is just here that Gillmor presents an interesting thesis: Satie "almost miraculously transformed his alleged technical incapacities into a virtue/' thus "clearing the stage for a truly contemporary aesthetic" (p. Surely, however, for music of any kind there Thus the challenge for the analyst of music such as Satie's is to come The book is illuminating in making its technical points together with observations on what is being expressed by the music. Throughout, emphasis is placed on Satie's historical importance for twentiethcentury music as a whole; he is considered a precursor and a seminal influence 	./cache/work_45vralls3zgxxpgyyzmd525shm.pdf	./txt/work_45vralls3zgxxpgyyzmd525shm.txt