Satie: Gnossienne No.1 - wind quintet

This piece, originally for piano, is one of three.

Satie wrote it without bar lines: I have added dashed ones to aid performance.

The melody moves around the instruments, and I have varied the accompaniment giving the bass line to bassoon, horn and clarinet.

The expression marks are my own. Satie marks the piece "p" throughout, with some cresc/dim.

My arrangement differs from many others, in that the melody is NOT given to one instrument throughout.

More interesting for the players!

Please check out the rest of my Satie arrangements for varying instrument combinations :

3 Gymnopédies and 3 Gnossiennes. (sold separately and as collections).

Also Rag-Time du Pacquebot (Ragtime of the Steampacket),Sonatina Bureaucratique and selections form Sports et Divertissements..

The music file is a one minute sample.