This song was mentioned at the end of the previous post. Here is that text again, expanded and with additional examples.
"Je te veux" is one of the better known among Satie’s cabaret songs, where we would definitely expect dominant ninth harmonies. (Satie began working as a pianist at the Parisian cabaret Chat noir in the later 1880s.) One appears immediately in the introduction (box). In the Refrain (the overall design is RCRCR, where R is the Refrain, and C is a couplet [same music but different text]), the major dominant ninth appears in the early or middle part of a period, as is more typical of popular song, and not near the cadence, as we find commonly in “art song.” The circled notes point to the free treatment of degrees in the upper tetrachord in relation to harmony—a heritage of mid-19th century waltz practices.
Thanks to repetition of the opening phrase, V9 is a characteristic sound of the couplets.
