{"id":71,"date":"2006-10-11T10:49:38","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T02:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/11\/gymnopedies\/"},"modified":"2009-02-24T08:33:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T00:33:06","slug":"gymnopedies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/11\/gymnopedies\/","title":{"rendered":"Gymnop\u00e9dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love part 1 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gymnop%C3%A9die\">Gymnop\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a9dies<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erik_Satie\">Erik Satie<\/a>. I just can&#8217;t get enough of it. Midis and MP3&#8217;s are <a href=\"http:\/\/pianomidi.org\/html\/satie.shtml\">available<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/pianomidi.org\/\">pianomidi.org<\/a>. These are a bit slower than a lot of the other performances I&#8217;ve heard, but still a little fast for my liking. (I like my Gymnop\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a9dies performances to have pauses where you almost wonder if the pianist has stopped).<\/p>\n<p>This piece also sounds good on classical guitar, but tends to be played even faster (blech!). I&#8217;m not big of performances that integrate a flute or violin, and I haven&#8217;t heard an orchestration that I felt didn&#8217;t massacre it. Lately, I find myself wanting music to sound much less &#8220;musical&#8221;. I&#8217;ll probably dislike this piece in a few months because it sounds too deliberate and has too much flair. (I already mostly feel that way about parts 2 and 3.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love part 1 of the Gymnop\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a9dies by Erik Satie. I just can&#8217;t get enough of it. Midis and MP3&#8217;s are available on pianomidi.org. These are a bit slower than a lot of the other performances I&#8217;ve heard, but still a little fast for my liking. (I like my Gymnop\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a9dies performances to have pauses where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/11\/gymnopedies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gymnop\u00e9dies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-19","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}