Gnossienne No. 2 (viola and piano)

Title: Gnossienne No. 2

Composer: Erik Satie, arr. David Gable

Instrumentation: Viola and Piano

Printout: 6 pages including cover

Note: In this, as in the other Gnossiennes, Satie gives cryptic indications for characterization, some so odd as to defy definition. Translations of the indications in Gnossienne No. 2 are below:

Avec étonnement (with astonishment)

Ne sortez pas (do not go out)

Dans une grande bontè (in great kindness)

Plus intimement (more intimately)

Avec une légère intimite (with light intimacy or with a little privacy)

Sans orgueil (without pride)