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In the mid-1960s, Steve Reich radically renewed the musical landscape with a back-to-basics sound that came to be called Minimalism. These early works, characterized by a relentless pulse and static harmony, focused single-mindedly on the process of gradual rhythmic change. Throughout his career, Reich has continued to reinvigorate the music world, drawing from a wide array of classical, popular, sacred, and non-western idioms. His works reflect the steady evolution of an original musical mind. Writings on Music documents the creative journey of this thoughtful, groundbreaking composer. These 64 short pieces include Reich's 1968 essay "Music as a Gradual Process," widely considered one of the most influential pieces of music theory in the second half of the 20th century. Subsequent essays, articles, and interviews treat Reich's early work with tape and phase shifting, showing its development into more recent work with speech melody and instrumental music. Other essays recount his exposure to non-western music -- African drumming, Balinese gamelan, Hebrew cantillation -- and the influence of these musics as structures and not as sounds. The writings include Reich's reactions to and appreciations of the works of his contemporaries (John Cage, Luciano Berio, Morton Feldman, Gyorgy Ligeti) and older influences (Kurt Weill, Schoenberg). Each major work of the composer's career is also explored through notes written for performances and recordings. Paul Hillier, himself a respected figure in the early music and new music worlds, has revisited these texts, working with the author to clarify their central narrative: the aesthetic and intellectual development of an influential composer. For long-time listeners and young musicians recently introduced to his work, this book provides an opportunity to get to know Reich's music in greater depth and perspective. ... Read more

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Great Timeline of Reich's Works
This is a must have for Reich enthusiast and student. It chronicles his works and talks about his compositional style. Very interesting. ... Read more

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Music for 18 Musicians (1974-76)for ensemble 2cl(I,II=bcl)4pftperc(6):3marimbas/2 xyl/vibvln.vlc4female voices(SSSA) All instruments and voices amplified ... Read more

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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Steve Reich was considered a fringe experimentalist. His work consisted largely of repeating, slowly changing patterns unlike either the serialism or the aleatory that predominated at that time. Today, however, Reich is one of the most prominent and celebrated contemporary composers, one about whom the scholarly and popular literature offers an assortment of critical, historical, and analytical perspectives. Author D.J. Hoek's bio-bibliography serves as an essential guide to this literature, comprehensively surveying Reich's life and work. Included are details of all of Reich's compositions: dates, instrumentation, premiere performances, and publishers; a discography listing all commercial recordings of the composer's oeuvre; and an annotated bibliography of publications in English, French, German, and Italian. The Reich scholar or aficionado could not find a more thorough encapsulation of his brilliant career. ... Read more

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This book rocks.
I cannow quitehonestly say with conviction that others observe us in far different but still similar yet thought provoking, light-shedding manner. Wim Mertens, I believe, has done just that. Man oh man, I love nothing more than digging into a good chapter of this book. Always insightful, Mertens very colorfully relates the cause, themes, and application of "American 'minimalist' music" in a straight foward and entertaining way. A "way" that most American authors I believe have yet to go. ... Read more

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This book offers the most detailed account so far of the early works of these four minimalist composers, putting extensive discussion of the music into a biographical perspective. The true musical minimalism of the 1960s and early 1970s is placed in the wider context of their music as a whole, and considered within the cultural conditions of the period, which saw not only the rise of minimalism in the fine arts but also crucial changes in the theory and practice of musical composition in the Western cultivated tradition. ... Read more

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makes you ponder what this was all about
The phenomenon of minimalist music I think is better understood from its initial stages, for after market popularity sets in the theoretical fascinations seem to dissipate, seem to become rationalized away as unimportant and cumbersome. If you take all four praticioners here, to my mind only their early works seem to hold any interest at all,it is only the only works that have a "longevity" factor, where we can still find points of interests. For it was in the early works that carried the weight into what we have now.
Musical minimalism as well is a kind of misnomer in that the term began in the visual arts and if you go there you will find the term and its results and achievments has a much more vigorous base of contemplation and export. There simply is more important things happening there, as Donald Judd,the minimalist shrine of cubes and geometric shapes in an old Army base in Marfa Texas or the flourescent lighting schemes of Dan Flavin, the powerful sculptural plates of Richard Serra,or painters abound as Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella and Bridget Riley. There simply is no comparison with the level of conceptual depth and gestural focus, what art is suppose to do, what it did, and how the concept is engaged,and how it responds to its context and art history,or a temporality (how for instance the spirit, ir-religious of course is engaged in Richard Serra, his plates where the human mind simply stands there engaged in peace with his own existence or sense of space and time). Musical minimalism has no equivalent, and it is a shame for it could have had this. La Monte Young's "Well-Tuned Piano", a 9 hour work with just intonation tunings of the piano comes close to the temporal vigours of Judd's shrine I beleive.
With the introduction of opera in the works of Glass well now we are in another dimension, for Glass resorted to traditional classical structures of opera, duets, trios, quartets, (as in Aknathen) this is no longer innovative means. Potter's book draws light on this paradigm here makes you think of these issues what minimalism did and what it is now. Was it simply a fad?, or did it produce sustainable music?, music we can return to once or twice, or was minimalism simply "grist" for the mill of the market, one time, make the cash, take the money and run. Again the importance of minimalism is found in its early repertoire, Reich fascinating threadbare music for four woodblocks was all he needed to write to proclaim a status, or Glass's early music with Farfisa organs and saxophones,"Music in Fifths" or Riley's "In C", or his "Keyboard Studies" are all relevant pieces we can return to unpretenciously.

The late Morton Feldman is of course not here. He had intense knowledge of the visual arts world and his last works sought to reclaim this paradigm for music (his Second String Quartet, and Triadic Memories, For Chritian Wolff) are works scaling long durational lengths a place where minimalism in music seems to be now a beginning point not an end. Had Feldman lived I think he would have written even longer works. Of course Cage's massive work for organ now being realized in Halberstadt Germany, a work lasting years is also a step in the right direction.

music theory exposition, and history too
Potter's book will be best appreciated by those with a much better understanding of music theory than I.However, I learned something about the personal and musical history of so-called "minimalism."(Potter falls prey to some extent to the problem of reifying an abstraction -- having first grouped some things together into a category, then searching for the true meaning of the category.)Is there a torch passed, so to speak, from Young to Riley to Reich to Glass?Glass is the only one to adamantly deny it, but Potter documents the basis for seeing it just that way (including Reich's influence on Glass).

One aspect I am keen to know more about, but which Potter doesn't stress overly much, is the striking confluence of non-Western influences.Young and Riley are both disciples of the North Indian master singer, Pandit Pran Nath, who died in 1996.Reich studied both African drumming as well as the gamelan music of Bali.Glass studied Indian music, after being immersed in serialism.With the European "classical" tradition at an impasse at the turn of the millennium, it seems only natural that the future would lie in creative fusions and combinationswith other traditions.(Not a very original idea, I realize, as evidenced by the recent emphasis of the Kronos Quartet among others.)Minimalism seems by now to be another style that passed into history and critical assessments -- is there an opening there that is being missed? ... Read more

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Chapters: Piano Phase, Music for a Large Ensemble, Drumming, Different Trains, Music for 18 Musicians, Tehillim, Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards, Four Organs, Come Out, City Life, the Desert Music, Proverb, Sextet, Clapping Music, Pendulum Music, It's Gonna Rain, Triple Quartet, Electric Counterpoint, Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ, Daniel Variations, Six Pianos, Eight Lines, Violin Phase, Octet/music for a Large Ensemble/violin Phase, Double Sextet. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 76. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Drumming is a music composition by the minimalist composer Steve Reich, dating from 1970-1971. Reich began composition of the work after a visit to Africa and observing music and musical ensembles there, especially under the Anlo Ewe master drummer Gideon Alorwoyie in Ghana. The piece employs Reich's trademark technique of phasing. Phasing is achieved when two players, or one player and a recording, are playing a single repeated pattern in unison, usually on the same kind of instrument. One player changes tempo slightly, while the other remains constant, and eventually the two players are one or several beats out of sync with each other. They may either stay there, or phase further, depending on the piece. Drumming was the last composition where Reich used this technique. K. Robert Schwarz has characterised Drumming as a "transitional" piece between Reich's early, more austere compositions and his later works that use less strict forms and structure. Schwarz has also noted that Reich made use of three new techniques, for him, in this work:(1) "the process of gradually substituting beats for rests (or rests for beats) within a constantly repeating rhythmic cycle", or "rhythmic construction" and "rhythmic reduction"(2) combination of instr...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11537044 ... Read more

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Chapters: Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Louis Andriessen, Luciano Berio, Michael Nyman, John Zorn, Arvo Pärt, La Monte Young, Bradley Joseph, Django Bates, Juan María Solare, Egberto Gismonti, William Susman, Frans Geysen, Meredith Monk, Rhys Chatham, Hans-Jürgen Von Bose, Wim Mertens, Henry Flynt, Anomie Belle, Joe Jones, John Mcguire, Gunther Schuller, Charlemagne Palestine, Craig First, Carlos Stella, Michael Harrison, Jacob Isaacson, Carlo Forlivesi, Scott Johnson, Andrew Poppy, Catherine Christer Hennix, Sylvie Courvoisier, Obsil, László Vidovszky, Ezequiel Viñao, Jocelyn Morlock, Helen Chadwick. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 272. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in New York City) is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn's recorded output is prolific with hundreds of album credits as a performer, composer, or producer. His work has touched on a wide range of musical genres, often within a single composition, but he is best-known for his avant-garde, jazz, improvised and contemporary classical music. Zorn has led the punk jazz band Naked City, the klezmer-influenced quartet Masada and composed the associated 'Masada Songbooks', written concert music for classical ensembles, and produced music for film and documentary. Zorn has stated that "I've got an incredibly short attention span. My music is jam-packed with information that is changing very fast... All the various styles are organically connected to one another. I'm an additive person - the entire storehouse of my knowledge informs everything I do. People are so obsessed with the surface that they can't see the connections, but they are there." After releasing albums on several independent US and European labels,...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=86018 ... Read more

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The groundbreaking mix CD that accompanies this book features Nam Jun Paik, the Dada Movement, John Cage, Sonic Youth, and many other examples of avant-garde music. Most of the CD's content comes from the archives of Sub Rosa, a legendary record label that has been the benchmark for archival sounds since the beginnings of electronic music. (For a complete list of audio credits, see below.)

If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix—how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines between what an artist can do and what a composer can create. In Sound Unbound, Rhythm Science author Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid asks artists to describe their work and compositional strategies in their own words. These are reports from the front lines on the role of sound and digital media in an information-based society. The topics are as diverse as the contributors: composer Steve Reich offers a memoir of his life with technology, from tape loops to video opera; Miller himself considers sampling and civilization; novelist Jonathan Lethem writes about appropriation and plagiarism; science fiction writer Bruce Sterling looks at dead media; Ron Eglash examines racial signifiers in electrical engineering; media activist Naeem Mohaiemen explores the influence of Islam on hip hop; rapper Chuck D contributes "Three Pieces"; musician Brian Eno explores the sound and history of bells; Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno interview composer-conductor Pierre Boulez; and much more. "Press 'play,'" Miller writes, "and this anthology says 'here goes.'"

Contributors: David Allenby, Pierre Boulez, Catherine Corman, Chuck D, Erik Davis, Scott De Lahunta, Manuel DeLanda, Cory Doctorow, Eveline Domnitch, Frances Dyson, Ron Eglash, Brian Eno, Dmitry Gelfand, Dick Hebdige, Lee Hirsch, Vijay Iyer, Ken Jordan, Douglas Kahn, Daphne Keller, Beryl Korot, Jaron Lanier, Joseph Lanza, Jonathan Lethem, Carlo McCormick, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Moby, Naeem Mohaiemen, Alondra Nelson, Keith and Mendi Obadike, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Pauline Oliveros, Philippe Parreno, Ibrahim Quraishi, Steve Reich, Simon Reynolds, Scanner aka Robin Rimbaud, Nadine Robinson, Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), Alex Steinweiss, Bruce Sterling, Lucy Walker, Saul Williams, Jeff E. Winner.

On the CD:

1. RadioMentale and Matthew Herbert, "Cool Noises"
2. Martyn Bates/Allen Ginsberg, "Once Loved/A Footnote to 'Howl' (DJ Spooky Remix)"
3. Jean Cocteau, "Le buste (DJ Spooky Remix)"
4. Sun Ra, "Imagination"
5. Mikhail/Gertrude Stein, "Untitled in CoF Minor/A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (DJ Spooky Remix)"
6. DJ Spooky vs. Rob Swift, "Scratch Battle"
7. Marcel Duchamp/The Master Musicians of Joujouka/RadioMentale, "The Creative Act/Interview with George Heard Hamilton/Boujeloud (Solo Drums)/I Could Never Make That Music Again"
8. Raymond Scott, "The Paperwork Explosion"
9. Alter Echo/Pamela Z, "Perpetual Next/Pop Titles 'You'"*
10. Liam Gillick/ RadioMentale and Aphex Twin, "Sarah (Los Angeles Soundtrack)/I Could Never Make That Music Again"
11. James Joyce/Erik Satie, "Eolian Episode/Gnossiene (DJ Spooky Dub Version)"
12. Steve Reich, "Reed Phase"
13. Shukar/RadioMentale/Raoul Hausmann, "Cika-Laka/Cool Noises/Bbb"
14. Augustos de Campos/Bill Laswell/To Rococo Rot, "Dias Dias Dias (Spoken by Caetano Veloso)/Above the Earth/Contacte"
15. John Cage, "Rozart Mix"
16. Antonin Artaud, "Pour Finir avec le Jugement de Dieu (To Have Done with God's Judgment) (DJ Spooky Remix)"
17. DJ Spooky, "One Laptop Theme"
18. Susan Deyhim, "The Spilled Cup (DJ Spooky Remix)"
19. Raymond Scott, "General Motors: Futurama (Interstitial)"
20. Marcel Duchamp/George Lewis and Aki Takase, "Erratum Musical (Score for Three Voices)/Voyage for Three"
21. Bill Laswell/René Magritte, "Ghost Dub/Le Surréalisme et les Questions"
22. Anthony Braxton and Evan Parker/Pauline Oliveros, "The First Set— Area 4 (Solo)/A Little Noise in the System (Moog System)"
23. Bora Yoon, "// (DJ Spooky Remix)"
24. Pierre Schaeffer, "Cinqétudes de bruits: Étude violette"
25. Daniel Bernard Roumain and Ryuichi Sakamoto, "The Need to Be"**
26. Phillip Glass, "Music in Fifths"
27. Edgard Varèse, "Poème électronique"
28. Iannis Xenakis, "Concret PH"
29. Ryoji Ikeda, "One Minute"
30. Sonic Youth, "Audience (DJ Spooky Remix)"
31. Alter Echo/Ge-te Do-pe, "Aftermath of Creations Dub (in Three Parts)/Dong Lim"
32. Terry Riley/Alter Echo, "Dorian Reeds/Aftermath of Creations Dub (in Three Parts)"
33. Luigi Russolo/DJ Spooky, "Corale/FTP > Bundle/Conduit 23"
34. Fanfare Savale/Vladimir Mayakovsky, "Rumba Lu Georgel/I Know the Power of Words"
35. Droma/Trilok Gurtu and Bill Laswell, "Pilgrim's Song (Trala Shepa)/Kala"
36. Nam Jun Paik, "Hommage à John Cage"
37. Morton Subotnick/DJ Spooky, "Mandolin/Acid Bassline"
38. The Master Musicians of Joujouka/Hans Arp, "Mali Mal Hal M'Halmaz/Boujeloud (Solo Drums)/Dada-Sprüche"
39. Sub Swara/Kurt Schwitters, "Koli Stance/Anna Blume"
40. Walter Ruttmann/Troupe from Taschingang, "Week End/Ache Lhamo"
41. Raymond Scott, "Bendix 1: The Tomorrow People"
42. Martyn Bates/Trinlem, "I Can't Look for You/The Palaces of Gesar's Family (DJ Spooky Remix)"
43. Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky, "Incantation for Tape"
44. Carsten Nicolai, "Time ... Dot(3)"
45. William S. Burroughs and Iggy Pop with Techno Animal, "The Western Land"

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Fascinating AND Fun
Educating yourself should always be this much fun!I especially enjoyed the intro by Steve Reich, and Jeff Winner's chapter.The CD that comes with the book is the perfect soundtrack while reading.Mr. Miller has done a fantastic job of assembling talent for his collection; not only Mr. Winner and Reich, but others like Brian Eno, Chuck D., and many more.I've read most of this book twice already - highly recommended!

A Worthwhile Purchase.
Great Book.A lot of intelligent essays on very relevant topics.As someone who enjoys sampling digital music, I find it very helpful to hear what my peers are thinking about the varying issues surrounding the activity.Some ideas are new to me and get my gears spinning, some of them are problems I've wrestled with myself, such as the moral dilemma embedded in the digital sampling culture.Is it thievery?Should laws be enacted to punish it?Should we do it at all, out of respect for the original artist?Some essays are more difficult to follow on account of references to so many artists and their works that I am unfamiliar with.However, others are a quick and enjoyable read that are pleasantly easy to comprehend, while still no less important to the book as a whole.Again, great read.

Sounds good, reads even better.
This book is excellent. It comes with a a CD of some really excellent mashup too. I've really enjoyed the differnt writing styles and the great anecdotes that present themselves in this compilation of what is essentially a book of post-graduate papers on music and it's evolving relationship with the world. Delightfully rich with first person experience and gives you something to listen too in the background.Yummy for my sonic tummy.

Sound Has Never Transvered at Such Speeds!
Sound Unbound brilliantly details the explosion of culteral diffusion in the 21st century as a result of advancements in technology.The book consists of several excellently written essays whose authors range from rappers to scientists, sampling various viewpioints from one another.DJ Spooky successfully conveys how both in the past and today, now more than ever, art is naturally derrivative; stemming from one source after another.

What a trip!
I just finished this one. If you're looking for insight from the myriad influential contributors, you'll find that and much more here. The book's themes run deep, weaving together music history and theory with meditations on technology, perception, and cultural zeitgeist. I went in curious how the ideas of Brian Eno, Bruce Sterling, Cory Doctorow, and Chuck D would cohere under the editorial hand of DJ Spooky. Color me surprised - it's an enlightening trip! A must-read! ... Read more

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very good...
i received the score just on time to do a work here at university of Rio de Janeiro. Well, its very clear package, informing how to do the work and how to performance, etc. surprisingly, i found easy to "accompany" with the music...
its a beautiful piece. looks like someone is in a journey to a special place...the score reveals it...
its worthing the purchase... ... Read more

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Chapters: Steve Reich, Gerald Schroeder, Leonard Nimoy, Joe Lieberman, Ronald Perelman, Jonathan Pollard, Michael Mukasey, Matisyahu, Eric Cantor, Liviu Librescu, Sheldon Silver, Michael Medved, Samuel Reshevsky, Dmitry Salita, Robert Aumann, Shlomo Sawilowsky, Dov Hikind, Steven Hill, Karen Tintori, Debbie Schlussel, Herman Wouk, Yishai Fleisher, Natasha Lyonne, Tevi Troy, Yaakov Shwekey, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Simcha Felder, David Macht, Daniel Boyarin, Harry Fischel, Lawrence Schiffman, Esther Jungreis, Barry Freundel, Joseph Rosenberger, Jason Bedrick, Lipa Schmeltzer, Tamir Goodman, Richard H. Schwartz, Michael Wyschogrod, Leon Toubin, David G. Greenfield, Louis Feldman, Alan Veingrad, Avraham Fried, Sam Glaser, Yosef Goldman, David Klinghoffer, Sholom Rubashkin, Meshulam Gross, Jeff Ballabon, Naomi Ragen, Jared Kushner, Ari Halberstam, Irving Bunim, Dov S. Zakheim, Gary Schaer, Jay Lefkowitz, Jonathan Kellerman, Christian B. Anfinsen, Benjamin Brafman, Yossi Piamenta, Salomon Bochner, Alan J. Steinberg, Yavilah Mccoy, Denah Weinberg, Shimon Waronker, Irving Moskowitz, Faye Kellerman, Mordechai Ben David, Julius Steinfeld, Ben Shapiro, Samuel Heilman, Abie Rotenberg, Hermann Merkin, Nachum Segal, Nathan Aviezer, Joseph Cedar, Robert A. Baruch Bush, Louis Henkin, Ludwig Lewisohn, Abraham Zelmanowitz, Sara Lee Kessler, Michael Levi Rodkinson, Elon Gold, Ari Goldwag, David Werdyger, David N. Weiss, Blue Fringe, Bruria David, Carl Feit, Meir Lichtenstein, Ari L. Goldman, Joel B. Wolowelsky, Hendel Lieberman, Jesse Kellerman, Philip J. Caplan, Zev Brenner, Robert J. Avrech, Yitzchak Levine, Shloime Dachs, Max Stern, Mike Tress. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 290. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman (born February 24, 1942) is the junior United States Se...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=74456 ... Read more

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Title: Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass. (Musical Men).
Author: Jonathan W. Bernard
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2002
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: 58Issue: 4Page: 834(3)

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Music for 18 Musicians, Piano Phase, Three Tales, Different Trains, Reed Phase, Pendulum Music, the Desert Music, City Life, Violin Phase, Music for a Large Ensemble, Proverb, Clapping Music, Come Out, Drumming, the Four Sections, Tehillim, It's Gonna Rain, Daniel Variations, Double Sextet, Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards, the Cave, Four Organs, Octet, Electric Counterpoint, 2x5, You Are, Eight Lines, Triple Quartet, Dance Patterns, Variations for Vibes, Pianos, and Strings, Electric Guitar Phase, Vermont Counterpoint, Melodica, Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ, Three Movements, Cello Counterpoint, Nagoya Marimbas, Six Marimbas, My Name Is, Music for Pieces of Wood, Mallet Quartet, Tokyo/vermont Counterpoint, New York Counterpoint, Six Pianos, Duet, Know What Is Above You, Phase Patterns, Four Log Drums, Typing Music, Pulse Music. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Music for 18 Musicians, appelée également 18, est une œuvre musicale de Steve Reich composée entre mai 1974 et avril 1976 pour un ensemble concertant de 18 musiciens. Cette œuvre est à la fois considérée comme l'une des pièces maîtresses du compositeur notamment de sa période dite de « minimalisme mature » mais également une œuvre essentielle de la musique contemporaine en particulier de la musique minimaliste. Cette œuvre qui devait au départ s'intituler Music for 21 Musicians a été composée par Reich après deux étés successifs passés à étudier la musique balinaise, et plus particulièrement le gamelan auprès de Bob Brown à Seattle. Elle marque, dans la carrière jusque-là relativement confidentielle du compositeur, la transition de ses premières recherches minimalistes vers une écriture harmonique modale s'ar...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Steve Reich, Leopold Auer, Meredith Monk, George Rochberg, Marc Blitzstein, Rudolf Friml, Paul Phillips, Richard Danielpour, Franz Waxman, Daniel Felsenfeld, Robert Beaser, Joseph Achron, Arthur Berger, Samuel Adler, Sigmund Romberg, Morton Subotnick, George Perle, Miriam Gideon, Shulamit Ran, Arnold Rosner. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 105. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Stephen Michael Steve Reich (pronounced ; born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who pioneered the style of minimalist music. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (examples are his early compositions, "It's Gonna Rain" and "Come Out"), and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts (for instance, "Pendulum Music" and "Four Organs"). These compositions, marked by their use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm and canons, have significantly influenced contemporary music, especially in the US. Reich's work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of historical themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage, notably the Grammy Award-winning Different Trains. Reich's style of composition influenced many other composers and musical groups. Reich has been described by The Guardian as one of "a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history", and the critic Kyle Gann has said Reich "may...be considered, by general acclamation, America's greatest living composer." On January 25, 2007, Reich was named the 2007 recipient of the Polar Music Prize, together with Sonny Rollins. On April 20, 2009, Reich was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Double Sextet. Reich was born in New York City to the Broadway lyricist June Sillman. When he was one year old, hi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=26822 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Arvo Pärt, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, La Monte Young, Terry Riley, John Coolidge Adams, Michael Nyman, Phasing, Renaud Gagneux, Wim Mertens, Ingram Marshall, Alan Licht, Stimmung, Gavin Bryars, Christopher Hobbs, Andrew Poppy, Dave Smith, Terry Jennings, Charlemagne Palestine, Scott Johnson, Michael Parsons, John White, Reich Remixed, the Dream Syndicate, David Behrman, Louis Andriessen, David Lang, San Francisco Tape Music Center, Jon Gibson, Henning Christiansen, Style Tintinnabulum. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : La musique minimaliste est un courant de musique contemporaine apparu dans les années 1960 aux États-Unis, qui représente une part importante de la musique classique de ce pays. En France, le courant est fréquemment appelé musique répétitive, et désigne plus spécifiquement l'ensemble des œuvres utilisant la répétition comme technique de composition. Les principaux compositeurs de musique minimaliste sont La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, et John Adams. L'œuvre considérée comme fondatrice du minimalisme est In C de Terry Riley, composée en 1964. La musique minimaliste est parfois désignée sous l'étiquette plus large de musique postmoderne. Plus qu'un retour à la tonalité, le courant est surtout caractérisé par l'utilisation d'une pulsation régulière et la répétition de courts motifs évoluant lentement. Au-delà d'un mouvement de réaction au sérialisme, alors dominant en Europe, la musique minimaliste marque l'émergence d'une musique américaine novatrice, déliée de ses attaches européennes. Les compositeurs minimalistes ont aussi opéré un retour vers plus d'émotivité musicale, au lieu de l'approche essentiellement intellectuelle de la musique sérielle, ou l'appro...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Wolfgang Pauli, Max Reinhardt, Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Muni, Steve Reich, Harry Shearer, Peter Lorre, Raymond Kurzweil, Frederick Loewe, Billy Wilder, Barbra Streisand, Otto Preminger, Hedy Lamarr, Liev Schreiber, Fred Zinnemann, Thomas Gold, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Edward Bernays, Gerty Cori, Felix Frankfurter, Raul Hilberg, Ludwig Von Mises, Leo Birinski, Bruno Bettelheim, Eric Kandel, Shelby Foote, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Victor L. Berger, Max Fleischer, Carl Djerassi, Hilda Geiringer, Richard Neutra, Erich Von Stroheim, Stephen Samuel Wise, Paul Lazarsfeld, Hans P. Kraus, Isaac Mayer Wise, Wolf Leslau, Benny Feilhaber, Hans Conried, Irene Fischer, Sidney Hook, Walter Kohn, Theodore Bikel, Karl Landsteiner, Leah Remini, Josef Von Sternberg, Robert Karplus, Ira Schnapp, Walter Bricht, Eduard Bloch, Erna Furman, Karl H. Pribram, Gotthard Deutsch, Hans Kelsen, Herman Francis Mark, John Gottman, Bernard Spitzer, Emile Zuckerkandl, Emmerich Kálmán, Maria Altmann, Victor Frederick Weisskopf, Saul K. Padover, Artur Bodanzky, Mordkhe Schaechter, Rudolf Serkin, Efraim Racker, Gerda Lerner, Gina Kaus, Boris Kodjoe, Louis V. Arco, Sue Carol, Jascha Horenstein, Felix Rohatyn, René Spitz, Stephan Smith, John Banner, Wolfe Kelman, Leo Castelli, Rose Rand, Vanessa Brown, Martin Karplus, Beate Sirota, Erich Zeisl, Oscar Straus, Bernard Rudofsky, Henry Lehrman, Franz Mittler, Salomon Bochner, Lisette Model, Josef Gerstmann, Leon Askin, Nathan H. Juran, Hans Kmoch, Walter Abish, Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer, Vicki Baum, Ricardo Cortez, Edgar Zilsel, Gustav Bergmann, Robert G. Neumann, Julius Steinfeld, Oskar Morgenstern, Alfred Grünwald, Hattie Carnegie, Hugo Riesenfeld, Arthur Schneier, Rudolf Dreikurs, Fritzi Massary, Alois Kaiser, Franz Alt, Erika Morini, Richard Oswald, Maurice Bloomfield, Eric Rosenblith, Joseph Lewi, Paul Czinner, Michael Artin, Severin Eisenberger, Frank Tannenbaum, E. Randol Schoenberg, Herbert Kuhner, Hei...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=72336 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stephen Michael "Steve" Reich (born October 3, 1936) is a Jewish-American composer who pioneered the style of minimalist music. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (examples are his early compositions, "It's Gonna Rain" and "Come Out"), and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts (for instance, "Pendulum Music" and "Four Organs"). These compositions, marked by their use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm and canons, have significantly influenced contemporary music, especially in the US. Reich's work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of historical themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage, notably the Grammy Award-winning Different Trains. ... Read more