Music: John Williams - Gnossienne No.1 (Satie)

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Classical guitarist Williams interprets one of Satie's series of pieces written for piano. 

A note on the title: "Gnossienne" is one of a very few occasions where a new word was coined by the composer distinctly intended to indicate a (new) "type" of composition. 

Satie had used and would use a lot of names for his compositions that never had been used to indicate a piece or type of music before: for example "ogive" had been the name of an architectural element until Satie used it as the name for a composition, the Ogives; similar for "vexations", "croquis et agaceries" and so on, but gnossienne was a word that simply didn't exist before Satie used it to indicate a composition. 

The word "gnossienne" appears to be derived from the word gnosis, which doesn't appear too surprising since Satie was involved in gnostic sects and movements at the time when starting to compose Gnossiennes.

However some published versions claim the word derives from Cretan Knossos or "Gnossus" and link the Gnossiennes to Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur myth. Images are of water reflections. 

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