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n. (plural of vexation English)
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Vexations is a musical work by Erik Satie. Apparently conceived for keyboard (though the single page of manuscript does not specify an instrument), it consists of a short theme in the bass whose four presentations are heard alternatingly unaccompanied and played with chords above. The theme and its accompanying chords are written using strikingly eccentric and impractical enharmonic notation. The piece is undated, but scholars usually assign a date around 1893-1894 on the basis of musical and biographical evidence.
The piece bears the inscription "In order to play the theme 840 times in succession, it would be advisable to prepare oneself beforehand, and in the deepest silence, by serious immobilities" (Pour se jouer 840 fois de suite ce motif, il sera bon de se préparer au préalable, et dans le plus grand silence, par des immobilités sérieuses). From the 1960s onward, this text has mostly been interpreted as an instruction that the page of music should be played 840 times, though this may not have been Satie's intention.
Usage examples of "vexations".
A score of petty vexations, not one of which was of any moment, worked me up to desperation.
It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them.
You may probably have seen that I am not a man endowed with that fortitude which enables many to bear vexations with an easy spirit.
I want to be lifted out of myself--far above these petty vexations and my own miserable weaknesses.