"A fourth gymnopédie"

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For my Collection Audit project, I just listened to Rod Argent's Classically Speaking, and it reminded me of a thing I meant to write here months (or even longer) ago.

The final track on Classically Speaking is "A fourth gymnopédie," which is a re-recording of "A 4th gymnopedie" from Argent's Red House album (from ten years earlier).  I don't remember when I realized this, but it continues Satie's gymnopédies.  Satie wrote three, and Argent's is the "fourth."

I haven't really lookt into the music yet, but - just from hearing them - it's fairly obvious that Argent's has some musical similarities with Satie's.