Description: Even though Erik Satie's name was associated with all the fashionable artistic movements of early 20th-century Paris -- cubism, surrealism, dadaism, and neoclassicism -- he always followed his own light, never belonging to any group or following a particular doctrine. "Indeed", says Grove's Dictionary, "he may rather be said to have anticipated artistic tendencies which others shaped into a dogma". He was a true nonconformist, who struck out on his own path to develop a musical structure that reflected his unique personality and eccentricities. Parade, the 1916 ballet he created in collaboration with Cocteau, Massin, and Picasso, was hailed as a "cubist manifesto". Stripped of subjective emotion, the work removes basic fragments of melody and simple harmonies from their conventional associations and recasts them in unexpected but logical patterns, much as the cubist painters exploded familiar forms into unexpected configurations. This inexpensive full score will be welcomed by music students, musicians, and music lovers.

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