Le Fils des étoiles
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Le Fils des étoiles is an incidental music score composed in December 1891 by Erik Satie to accompany a three-act poetic drama of the same name by Joséphin Péladan. It is a key work of Satie's "Rosicr
Erik Satie in 1891
Joséphin Péladan
Opening of the first Prelude from Le Fils des étoiles, with its harmonically innovative "stacks" of fourths
Catalogue of the first Salon de la Rose + Croix (1892)
Quartal and quintal harmony
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In music, quartal harmony is the building of harmonic structures from the intervals of the perfect fourth, the augmented fourth, and the diminished fourth. For instance, a three-note quartal chord on
Le Fils des étoiles
…des étoiles is primarily known. The Preludes have been cited as among Satie's most radical compositions, with their forward-looking explorations of quartal harmony and the composer's conception of theatre music as a "static sound décor", functioning independently of the stage action. In 1922 the American critic…
Disliking the sound of thirds (in equal-temperament tuning), Robert Fripp builds chords with perfect intervals in his new standard tuning.