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Re: Satie Titles
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Margaret Mikulska <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 1 Nov 2001 21:46:09 -0500
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Iskender Savasir wrote:

>I alwqays thought "gymnopedie" had something to do with the bodily
>exercises performed at the Apollonian festivites in ancient Greece...
>And gnosienne had something to do with "gnosis".

"Gnossienne" has nothing to do with gnosis - the word is derived from the
name of the city of Knossos on the island of Crete.

-Margaret Mikulska

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