jan 1, 1917 - Parade
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SurrealismA. Surrealism: Satie’s Parade
1. American music grew in popularity throughout the 1920s and ’30s.
2. The divide between high and low music grew as well.
3. In 1917, the Ballet Russes performed Parade by Satie (and Cocteau).
a. The work deliberately brings the theater experience to a lower level than audience members expected, as it is akin to a sideshow at a vaudeville theater and features carnival performers.
4. Satie and Cocteau avoided any conventional attempts to astonish or impress, but rather celebrated normalcy.
a. Realism (and antirealism) and tribute to the film industry are aspects of Parade.
b. Even though the score includes “ordinary” sounds, their use in such a work is far from ordinary.
5. Apollinaire noted the “clarity and simplicity” of Parade that elevated French music above German.
a. He coined the term “surrealism” to describe this realistic work.
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jan 1, 1917
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~ 108 years ago