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Mind Map by Eleanor Grace, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Eleanor Grace
almost 10 years ago
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Contribution of Reich to 20th century music
- Pioneering composer of
minimal music
- Single chord
in 'Four
Organs' (1970)
- Five word
phrase in 'Come
Out' (1966)
- Rhythmic construction and reduction -
the process of gradually substituting
rests for beats (or beats for rests) with
a constantly repeating rhythmic cycle
- Single chord
in 'Four
Organs' (1970)
- Interested in music
from other parts of the
world
- Complex rhythmic
structures built up of
polyrhythms: 'Music for
Mallet Instruments' (1970-1)
- African music: 'Drumming' (1970-1)
- Music of the Balinese
gamelan: 'Voices and
Organ' (1973)
- Complex rhythmic
structures built up of
polyrhythms: 'Music for
Mallet Instruments' (1970-1)
- Tape loops
- Phasing
patterns in
early
compositions
- Phase shifting - two or more identical
loops playing at slightly different
speeds. Repetitions move apart and
eventually arrive again at
synchronization
- Pre-recorded fragments of speech
in 'It's Gonna Rain' (1965 - a
preacher's voice) and 'Come Out'
(1966)
- Use of recording loops of a toy
melodica in 'Melodica' (1966) -
pitches determined by composer
- Pre-recorded fragments of speech
in 'It's Gonna Rain' (1965 - a
preacher's voice) and 'Come Out'
(1966)
- Phasing
patterns in
early
compositions
- Augmentation
- Explores different approaches
to phase shifting through
gradual lengthening of
individual notes
- 'Violin Phase' (1967)
- 'Phase Patterns' (1970)
- 'Clapping Music' (1972)
- 'Violin Phase' (1967)
- Gradual augmentation
of a single chord
- 'Four Organs' (1970), scored for
4 electric organs and a pair of
maracas
- 'Four Organs' (1970), scored for
4 electric organs and a pair of
maracas
- Chordal augmentation in
'Music for 18 Musicians'
- Voices and winds use the
length of their breath as a
guide for duration
- Sing / Play pulses on assigned
pitches to creates rising and
falling patterns
- Voices and winds use the
length of their breath as a
guide for duration
- Explores different approaches
to phase shifting through
gradual lengthening of
individual notes
- Use of sampling
- Taped sampled
speech fragments
and train sounds in
'Different Trains'
(1988)
- Sampled sounds
of car horns, car
alarms, air brakes
and pile drivers in
New York City in
'City Life' (1995)
- Taped sampled
speech fragments
and train sounds in
'Different Trains'
(1988)
- Introduction of themes from his
Jewish heritage as is began to
examine his own ethnic
background
- 'Tehillim' (1981) examined Hebrew
cantillation
- 'Tehillim' (1981) examined Hebrew
cantillation
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