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unity is all but swamped in an ongoing succession of heterogeneous material. Mosaic-like melodic fragments reminiscent of Satie's early music are followed by more conventional rounded phrases and jaunty dotted rhythms borrowed from
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in 1970, making unacknowledged changes to the score. These were corrected in the edition by
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In retrospect, the jumble of styles and self-borrowing in
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make it seem like a test run for the similarly diffuse
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321:Satie the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert Hall
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927:Petit prélude de 'La Mort de Monsieur Mouche'
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455:List of compositions
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145:performable piece".
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58:style of his friend
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783:Sarabandes
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180:" (1938).
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